Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from John Franzreb with Sidoti and Company.
John Franzreb - Sidoti and Company
First question is, given the tepid organic sales profile, but your willingness to maintain the total revenue outlook, I imagine there's some decent size programs out there that you expect to roll in the coming quarters. Can you give us a little color on what, if not what the programs are exactly, groups that will benefit the most, and what we should look forward to?
Frank Guidone
The two groups for us that we expect to experience the most growth this year largely due to new programs are within our PFG group, pressure business, and that's across the board in terms of programs. As you know, the pressure market is a very large market. And we participate in general industry, in heavy truck, in medical and all major market verticals there.
Because we're such a small share of a very large market, you really can't draw any conclusions relative to our growth versus the overall market growth. But the pressure business we’re expecting to grow through last year. There's lots of programs in the pipeline that we expect to drive the sales increases in the back half of the year.
Secondly, in our HDG group, in the humidity business, that business continues to enjoy success in the windshield fogging prevention applications which are being adopted on new platforms, as well as with the adoption of our TRICAN product which is used for engine optimization for heavy truck applications. These are programs that have been awarded a year or two ago, in some cases, and are rolling in.
John Franzreb – Sidoti and Company
How much incrementally would those programs collectively add?
Frank Guidone
From a growth perspective, those two groups are going to represent maybe 50% to 75% of our total growth for the year. The growth in those businesses is largely as a result of new programs as well as some net growth of the top 50 as I talked about earlier. The top 50 is flat for the first quarter. What we do is effectively sum that growth there. Simply because some customers in that top 50 pool represent programs that were new to us this year as compared to last and then on a full-year basis, we will just see growth.
John Franzreb - Sidoti and Company
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