Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator instructions) I’d like to hand it back to Mr. Fox for some comments.
Doug Fox
Thank you. Just to keep the Q&A moving along, we’d like to – we’d appreciate it if you keep your questions to one question and one follow-up. If you have additional questions, feel free to get back in the queue. So with that, let’s open it up for some Q&A.
Operator
Our first question comes from the line of Reik Read with Robert Baird. Please proceed with your question.
Reik Read – Robert Baird
It’s always very confusing. Good morning. Could you, guys, maybe – Mike, as part of your comments, you talked a little bit about some of the markets, but maybe you could expand on and talk about just maybe the retail, the industrial segment, the transportation logistics, what you’re seeing from a macro perspective, and then how Zebra might be able to fit into those markets in the next, say, several quarters with the introductions of new solutions or new products or new customers or new channels. Anything along those lines would be real helpful.
Anders Gustafsson
I’ll take that first. This is Anders. We talked about weakness in the retail segment for the last four quarters on our calls and we’ve been also talking about the weakness in Europe since Q2. Now, I think the investments we made over the last several years to diversify the business have made us a lot more robust as we can offset weakness in any one segment with strength in others.
Now, specifically to the retail segment, I think we have been able to offset some of the weakness we’ve seen with the largest US retailers by penetrating deeper into that vertical and also expanding more internationally. More recently, we’ve also introduced our kiosk printers into retail and there we basically doubled the revenues from kiosk printers in the retail. So, we are certainly still seeing weakness in that sector but we have been able to offset some of that.
Healthcare was a good vertical for us in the past quarter with strong growth. Also, our mobile workforce vertical did well for us. The manufacturing sector met the expectation, but wasn’t pretty weak, but also did not really exhibit any strength.
Reik Read – Robert Baird
Okay. And then, on the ESG side of things with respect to the integration, can you expand a little bit, Anders, on your comments to talk about how you are trying to bring reseller system integrators into the fold and what is the status of the sales force? I mean, do you have a unified sales force now?
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