Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you sir. The question-and-answer session will begin at this time. [Operator Instructions]. The first question comes from Peter Lisnic from Robert W. Baird. Sir you may ask your question.
Peter Lisnic - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Good afternoon, gentlemen
Thomas A. Gendron - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Hello Peter, how are you doing?
Peter Lisnic - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Good. How are you?
Thomas A. Gendron - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Good.
Peter Lisnic - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Excellent. I was wondering if we could get behind the top-line forecast that you have. If we are going from 20% organic growth in the first half it sounds like the second half is somewhere around 10%. Can you just give us some of the pluses and minuses that sort lead to that more conservative growth outlook for the back half for the year?
Robert F. Weber, Jr. - Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Well I think some of that is comparable to second half of '07 where we started see a ramp up. We still believe that all those markets are strong. We just had real rapid growth here in the first half, so looking forward we are not really seeing any differentiation in terms of the outlook, and that the market are still strong, sales are still going up, the 20% is a tough rate for year-over-year comparisons to keep going on.
Peter Lisnic - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Okay, referring up on that one and then I guess if I look at the supply chain issues that you had again in this quarter... you had it was $1.3 million is what you quantified in the queue for the first quarter? Can you help us get a sense as to what the supply chain costs were or the expedited freight, those sort of things in the quarter?
Thomas A. Gendron - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
The number was, I think it was 1 if I recall. But basically what we are seeing is as we called... our last quarter we called out some incremental freight that we were experiencing related to some material product orders that came through that we had some expediting cost related to. So that was part of it. In addition we have a number of... we moved some product from our Niles facility to our China facility. So there has been some increased freight related to that and also we have some investments and efficiencies going forward that are impacting that number a little bit.
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