| Safe Harbor Statement Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements. Certain statements in this presentation and oral statements made by the Company when giving this presentation constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, without limitation, statements about the proposed settlement of pending class action securities litigation and the impact thereof on our financial condition and results of operations, discussion concerning the effect that negative economic trends have on our business and marketplace, the existence and stage of the secular shift from off-line to online data collection in North America and Europe, the potential that our customers move to online data collection as a result of negative economic factors, our being positioned for EBITDA flow through in our Internet survey solutions business as revenue growth is restored, our ability to expand Ciao comparison shopping into the United States, the effect expanding Ciao comparison shopping may have on our financial performance in 2008, statements regarding the factors driving revenue growth in the European Ciao comparison shopping segment, our ability to build shareholder value, our ability to accelerate the expansion of our presence in Asia, our ability to implement our UPS technology in Europe, its ability to provide operational, structural and organizational benefits in the future, the pricing environment for Internet survey solutions, statements regarding panel acquisition costs and Real-Time Sampling® costs, our gross margins, our operating leverage, and our ability to lower SG&A expenses as a percentage of revenue, comparison shopping growth, sales, selling, general and administrative costs as a percentage of revenue, future panel build expenses in Europe, our ability to drive profitable revenue growth in the future, as well as predictions and guidance relating to the Company’s future financial performance and customer demand for Internet survey solutions and comparison shopping services, sales bookings, bid volume, and backlog. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as, “may”, “should”, “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “feel”, “believes”, “estimates”, “predicts”, “potential”, “continue”, “consider”, “possibility”, or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs but they involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks related to our ability to settle pending class action securities litigation as contemplated herein, our ability to expand Ciao comparison shopping into the United States, our ability to develop and deploy new technologies, our client satisfaction levels, our ability to build and maintain the size and demographic composition of our panels, our panelists’ responsiveness to our surveys, our customers acceptance and continued use of our Real Time Sampling technique, our ability to accurately predict future revenue, our ability to manage pricing pressure in North America and Europe, our reliance on our largest customers, the growing competitiveness of our marketplace and our ability to compete therein, our ability to manage or accelerate our growth and international expansion, including the ability to develop new panels, risks related to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, our ability to successfully integrate the businesses we have recently acquired or may acquire in the future, our online business model, demand for our products and services, the seasonality of demand for our Internet survey solutions and comparison shopping services, the outcome of legal proceedings pending against the company, the strength of our brand and other risks detailed in the “Risk Factors” section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and each subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission available at www.sec.gov and under the Investor Relations section of our corporate website at www.greenfield.com. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.2 |
