get through this temporary period of wholesale gas price surges but also discuss whether any current support is enough. firms have made it clear they do not think it is enough and they do not think it is enough and they want government to go further and provide some kind of financial support, whether that be subsidies or guarantee of competitive prices for energy, some kind of industry pros capped a bit like household consumers have. these kind of discussions are ongoing and as such the government doesn t yet have an answer to this. the department for business haven t submitted any kind of formal bid to the treasury for money although we understand officials from the treasury are engaging with the department for business about some of these possible solutions that are being discussed. i understand also from government sources the department for business are preparing to put forward some kind of bid to the treasury for financial support if and when they reach a solution. all these negot
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these firms to try and come up with some kind of solution for them to get through this temporary period of gas price surges and also discuss whether any current support is enough. firms made it clear they do not think it is enough and they want government to go further and provide some kind of financial support, whether subsidies or some kind of guarantee of competitive prices for energy or some kind of industry price cap, a bit like household consumers have. these discussions are ongoing. as such, the government doesn t yet have an answer to this, the department for business haven t submitted any formal bid to the treasury for money although we understand officials from the treasury are engaging with the department for business about some of these possible solutions that are being discussed. i understand also from government sources the department for business are preparing to put forward some kind of bid to the treasury for financial
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
other than to say that the fundamentals of our business haven t changed. in other words, business was negatively affected by recession. at some point recession begins, that goes away. the fundamental demand is there and it s going to get stronger. how have you had to adapt your fundamental product? which is basically people coming together to for peer and group support in the weight loss process. but more and more of us are preferring online. we are with our computers. what we re finding most effective, we re taking the best elements of online and combining it with the face-to-face interaction, the group. and those two things working together is an unbelievably powerful combination. i would suggest to you that weight watchers was the original social networking company. of course, i would say that. we re doing all the things without stepping away from who we are. we re also stepping into where