and we see the fruit in the growth which we proved in the first quarter. how are things like oil prices and higher metal passes affecting business like you? do you have to pass the cost on to the consumer? i suppose you do. the raw material is affecting us is natural rubber. yes, this is a burden for us. we expect gross more than 700 million customer burden from increasing rubber prices. but we are confident that we can pass that over to our customers, not directly so there will somebody time lag in between but normally with a time lag of a year or one and a half years, we manage to pass that over. other raw materials are not so much affecting us. continental ag chief financial officer, thank you for joining us from germany. thank you. from the boardroom to the fitting room, coming up on world business today, with the story of an entrepreneur in hong kong who s dreading the city s