Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. (Operator's Instructions) Our first question is from the line of Brian Drab with William Blair & Company. Please state your question.
Brian Drab - William Blair & Company
Good morning, guys. First question is just around market share gains or potential market share gains that you think you might be seeing globally. Can you talk about a little more in detail within specific geographies and end markets or product lines where you might be gaining some share?
Anders Gustafsson
I think overall we believe that we are holding or extending our share in product lines across the world. One area that we put more emphasis on has been the mobile workforce . We believe that we have been doing quite well there for the last well. Healthcare, we believe, is a market that we believe we are also doing well in today and growing. And I would say government is another market for us that we believe we're doing quite well in.
Brian Drab - William Blair & Company
Okay, great. And within specific geographies, and particular geographies you think you're doing better than any others in?
Michael H. Terzich
Brian, this is Mike Terzich. Specific to geography, the mobile workforce opportunities have been prominent for us in North America and in Latin America. Healthcare has been very solid both in North America and in Europe and the government has been also concentrated in North America and Europe, government inclusive of some of the postal opportunities in Europe and through the Armed Forces, Department of Defense, in the United States.
Brian Drab - William Blair & Company
Okay, great. And one more question. The end of the first quarter the sense that you gave us I believe was that inventory reductions that your distributors had pretty much played out and you didn't think you'd feel the effects of that to any great extent in the second quarter. What effect did inventory reduction of the distributors have on your sales in the second quarter?
Anders Gustafsson
There was some impact of inventory reductions in the second quarter. I think sales out of some of our distributors on a worldwide basis continued to reduce a bit, but they also increased the inventory turn targets they have. So we believe that at this stage the inventory reductions are really behind us and at this point we should see a nice flow through of orders as they receive them.
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