Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions]. Okay our first question is from the line of Jeff Hammond, KeyBanc. Please go ahead.
Jeffrey Hammond - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Hi, good morning.
Todd M. Bluedorn - Chief Executive Officer
Hi Jeff.
Jeffrey Hammond - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Hey. Just really want to drill into this European issue, I remember I think it was last year or the year before you there were European issues, the market started to get better, you started to fix some of the change some of the issues. So, this comes as a bit of surprise. I just want to understand, what's going on there, how quick of a fix is it? What really needs to be done from your perspective?
Todd M. Bluedorn - Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Let me sort of give you a little bit more color Jeff. If you look on a year-over-year basis where are decrease in profitability was in Europe, about half of it on a year-over-year basis I would say has to do with our revenue being down almost 10% year-over-year and I think a large part that was the market softened on us in first quarter, really the backlog going in the first quarter, the orders that we took at the end of the year were soft, driven in large part to one of our largest market, which is Spain, was down significantly.
We also had a little bit of bad debt, that I put underneath that category of half of being I would attribute it to softer markets.
About a quarter of the miss on the year-over-year basis I will put on under the category of one timers, things that won't repeat, some accounting sort of correction sort of tight things that you see in the numbers. Then about a quarter of it which we refer to a little bit more than a quarter of it, we refer to on our script and in the earnings release, has to do with what we called infrastructure investments and the enterprise undertook an SAP implementation in Europe a few years ago. We are now seeing the depreciation cost associated with that. In many ways our business in Europe was an accumulation of acquisition that hadn't been integrated. To really shrink the footprint in Europe, we needed to have an infrastructure put in place that allowed us to that and I think SAP was a precondition to do that.
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