Adient PLC Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript

The following is excerpted from the question-and-answer section of the transcript.

Question: Joseph Robert Spak - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division - Analyst : Okay. Just maybe if you could focus in on some of the bridges, like the plus 3 in Americas, the plus 1 in EMEA, of pricing within that sort of net material margin. Is that -- the correct interpretation is that the efforts of the commercial negotiations? And is that sort of the right pace we should expect here for the rest of the year? Or does that start to improve in the back half?

Question: Joseph Robert Spak - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division - Analyst : Okay. And then -- and maybe just to sort of attack the sort of improvement question from a different angle. When you sort of are reporting regionally now, it's quite striking that Asia's margins are basically in the 10s and versus low single digits in Americas and EMEA, and my guess is that maybe that was part of the point of reporting it this way. But how much of that is the challenges versus sort of just a structural difference between the regions? Just so we can get a sense for sort of what we're really aiming for here in those regions. without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. 'Thomson Reuters' and the Thomson Reuters logo are registered trademarks of Thomson Reuters and its affiliated companies. MAY 07, 2019 / 12:30PM, ADNT.N - Q2 2019 Adient PLC Earnings Call