Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Mr. Todd Schwartzman with Sidoti. Please proceed.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
Hi. Good morning, guys.
Barry McCabe
Good morning.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
Barry, in your talk on CapEx, did you give the expectation for 2008 full year?
Barry McCabe
No, I did not. We expect it to be up with our new product development and the other things we have going on, probably be in the range of $20 million to $25 million.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
All right. Thanks. What were Knoll North American sales for the fourth quarter?
Barry McCabe
We really don't give that out.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
Okay.
Barry McCabe
We would say that really though in the fourth quarter most of the sales were -- the increase was in North America and again you have timing on quarter-to-quarter due to projects and other things and the rest of the international is probably flat.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
Okay. What were the factors there that led to the flat result internationally?
Andrew Cogan
This is Andrew. We had some large projects last year in Europe in the fourth quarter that kind of shipped out then. So I think it was more on a comparison basis with a handful of large projects. Their business continues to be very robust and grow.
And our overall business internationally continues to do terrifically. In fact, I think we ended the year with the whole European international portion of our revenues close to 10% which is a significant increase from where we were at the start of the decade which was closer to about 7%. So we're really making good progress there and quite encouraged in terms of what we see there for this year.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
And overall globally mostly in North America, have you seen any cancellations of late anything in the fourth quarter or subsequent to quarter's end?
Andrew Cogan
No, we've not seen any cancellations.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
Okay. And what about Edelman's bottom line contribution, was there any for Q4?
Barry McCabe
Edelman, it was accretive in Q4 as we had anticipated it being. And I think it will be nicely accretive as move forward.
Todd Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company
I can't get you to quantify that, can I?
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