Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Your first question comes from the line of Deanne Dray - Goldman Sachs
Deanne Dray - Goldman Sachs
The core revenue growth which really came in above expectations and its hard to kind of reconcile the fact that you’re seeing negative Industrial production numbers in the US and that goes back to your diversity benefit, how does that core number split between North America and international for the quarter?
Robert Arzbaecher
I’ll let Andy think about how to answer the second part Deanne; we really don’t give a lot of segment data below the total data we gave. When I look at North America, while I think you’re correct you’re starting to see a slowdown I think when you look at numbers like Grainger’s numbers which is a distributor of ours and a pretty good proxy, you really see moderating growth but you still see growth. And that’s what we’ve seen within the Enerpac platform. It is moderating but it’s not?we don’t see a recession in the horizon for that business.
Andy Lampereur
In terms of the split just geographically Deanne, when you look at our different product lines, our Electrical segment on product lines with the exception of European Electrical, its all North American and that clearly was our weakest segment overall in terms of growth. RV was down about 15% for the quarter as well. So because of those factors during the quarter we essentially were flat in core growth in North America. Looking at Enerpac in the US, Hydratight clearly we were up in those markets, but the Electrical markets overall pulled us to kind of a flat range.
Deanne Dray - Goldman Sachs
That’s exactly what I was looking for. And then what about the impact of pricing today and what’s the outlook for the balance of the year, so if you look at 4% for revenue growth was there a price component that contributed?
Andy Lampereur
I think that there was. I would say it was primarily in the Industrial segment. We’ve anniversaried most of our increases in Electrical. I think you will see some price increases coming in in the back half of the year especially in Electrical with copper increases coming through in some of what we’re starting to see with steel as well. But I think it’s a pretty small number. Within the Industrial segment out of the core growth there?the core growth we had there, I would say maybe 2% of that was price. If you look across the other three segments, it was not much. I didn’t think it was a percent.
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