Quotes by Ed Breen

“We now believe that we have identified all, or nearly all, of the remaining (accounting) issues.”

“We are committed to changing the culture of the company to be more conservative,”

“Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and Security but weaker in Healthcare, primarily due to the challenges we are facing in our retail business. Electronics continued to grow at the 3% pace we had anticipated,”

“For the past six months we have been putting plans in place to accelerate restructuring actions to address our high-cost footprint and we are now ready to implement those plans,”

“Our balance sheet and cash flows are strong and many legacy financial and legal issues have been resolved. After a thorough review of strategic options with our board of directors, we have determined that separating into three independent companies is the best approach to enable these businesses to achieve their full potential.”

“After a thorough review of strategic options with our board of directors, we have determined that separating into three independent companies is the best approach to enable these businesses to achieve their full potential.”

“Should the valuation disconnect persist, we are prepared to take additional actions to address this,”

“We believe that Tycos shares are undervalued and ... we have been an active purchaser of our equity,”

“We are very good at doing design and living next door to our customer. Weve been moving with them. Its the reason weve got 30,000 Tyco electronics employees right now in China in 21 locations.”

“In the past several years, Tyco has come a long way.”