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United Technologies First Quarter Earnings Call
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Last Update: 4:46 AM EDT April 22 2008


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The provider of high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries realised earnings of $1 billion or $1.03 a share, up 26% from $819 million or 82 cents over last year revenue growth. The results reflect the resilience of the business model, with its focus on global growth through market leading franchises and cost reduction through the implementation of the ACE operating system, despite a softening economic environment.


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Gregory J. Hayes: It is striking to see some follow on to the credit crises in commercial construction, that''s up 20% and that is really going around the world with the exception of Southern Europe i.e. Spain primarily where we saw a little bit of the weakness for the year. But other than that, really have not seen much of an impact.

Nicole Parent (Credit Suisse): Have you seen any slowdown in the regions, specifically China?

Gregory J. Hayes: In China, there has not been any slowdown, we still see very strong growth out of China. There has been a glow up on China, fixed asset investments up about 24%, real estate investments up about 33%, large construction projects up about 22%.

Heidi Wood (Morgan Stanley): In aerospace, can you give us a sense of bandwidth to a high-low range of what you think this means for commercial aftermarket for Pratt as far if we get some retirements strictly on the Northwest Airlines fleet?

Gregory J. Hayes: On the Bangkok Airlines, we have all seen that there was not really an impact to Pratt & Whitney or to UTC more specifically. In the small airlines, we did not have real exposure per se in terms of receivables or anything.

And the Northwest-Delta merger, of course, those are two very important customers to Pratt & Whitney, the Pratt & Whitney power fleets. The good news as we look at this potential merger and also the potential because it''s not done yet, is the fact that they do not have a lot of overlap on their route structure. As a result, we do not see this as really a client to take a lot of capacity out of the combined two airlines.

Long term, it makes for a stronger industry to have a consolidation, and if oil is at a $110 or a $115 a barrel, there is going to be lots and lots of pressure on combined airlines to push for a new, more fuel-efficient fleet.

Ronald Epstein (Merrill Lynch): Can you comment about commercial construction in the other regions of the world?

Gregory J. Hayes: Commercial construction in Europe was very strong, but regionally strong in Eastern Europe. Russia and Ukraine, Poland remain very robust though Southern Europe, not so good. A little bit of over building as we had expected in Spain, and also the UK has been softening now.
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