Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Richard Eastman - Robert W. Baird.
Richard Eastman - Robert W. Baird
Lukas, could you just talk for a second or two about the end markets, life sciences, environmental, industrial and maybe just compare those to your local currency growth rate of 9%?
Lukas Braunschweiler, Ph.D.
In general, as I said, we had interesting enough globally broad-based growth across all six end-user markets, particularly across the three big ones, life science, environmental and petrochem. The only exception regionally was the Europe life science which really was, as we pointed out, probably the single most important issue we faced finally this quarter. We can elaborate on that later on
Craig McCollam
If you look at how it came out, first I will talk about reported dollars and then we can go talk about the organic. Our environmental was up approximately 20% for the quarter in reported, which would equate to about a 13% to 14% organic growth rate in environmental. Our life sciences was up about 2% on a reported basis, so that means it would have been down probably about five percentage points on an organic basis, which is very indicative of what we saw in our life sciences in Europe, coming out of Europe.
Where we saw really strong growth this quarter was in the chem/petrochem, where it grew about 50% on a reported basis. So, we saw incredible growth broad-based in North America and in Asia, and Europe was up slightly.
If you look at that on a local currency basis that was still growing up over 40% for the quarter and food and beverage was up in the double digits on a reported basis in high-single digits on an organic basis. And then when we look at the smaller high purity water analysis markets of electronics and power, they were up slightly in reported currency and were flat in local currency.
Richard Eastman - Robert W. Baird
From a consumables equipment standpoint, how did that mix look?
Lukas Braunschweiler, Ph.D.
Overall, the mix as we reported it looks very good. Take ion chromatography, where we stated clearly that the growth, the strong growth of broad-based was in instruments as well as in consumables. So, it’s not that we would live from consumables and not from instruments, was very, very even. Usually, consumables are a little bit higher growing in general than instruments, but this quarter instruments hold up nicely, overall globally.
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