Brunswick Corporation Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter G. Leemputte has reconfirmed the company's previously announced earnings estimate of $1.65 to $2.00 per share from continuing operations for 2007. In 2006, on a comparable basis, the company reported diluted EPS of $2.28.
He also announced Life Fitness' new ability to seamlessly integrate its fitness equipment and Apple Computer's popular iPod. This connectivity makes it possible for iPod users to plug in and charge their iPods, watch video on the equipment's large LCD screen and to control the playing of their iPod music libraries from the fitness equipment console.
