london. he recently sat down with a the ceo of weight watchers and it turns out the company is not doing as well as you might think. it was as tough an economic time as we ve seen. and any business that is in consumer discretionary certainly felt the effects of that. but i think the fundamental thing is that the economies come and go, but the issue of obesity is not going away. and the suitability and the directness of the weight watchers approach for addressing this from a societal perspective has never been more apparent and obvious. let s stay with your numbers. if you believe it is a result of the recession, ergo, your next quarter and the rest of the year should show better. are you seeing that? we just finished our second quarter right now and we re not going to be reporting earnings for a few weeks now. soy can t talk about what s going on in the past three months. other than to say that the fundamentals of our business
eat healthily, obesity is on the rise around the world. richard quest is back from london. he recently sat down with the ceo of weight watchers. and it turns out the company is not doing as well as you might think. it was as tough an economic time as we ve seen. and any business that is in consumer discretionary certainly felt the effects of that. but, you know, i think the fundamental thing is that the economies come and go, but the issue of obesity is not going away. and the suitability and the directness of the weight loss approach from directing this from a societal perspective has never been more apparent and obvious. well, let s start with your numbers, then. if you believe it is a results of the recession, your next quarter and the rest of the year should show better. are you seeing that? we just finished our second quarter right now. and we re not going to be reporting earnings for a few weeks now. so i can t talk about what s going on in the past three months.