Motorola is still achieving good profits and investing in new products such as the MC 9500 mobile computer despite the global financial crisis and a decline in customer demand, a European manager told CEP-Research. 2008 was a successful year for Motorola growing at double-digit rates, even if slightly lesssuccessful than 2007 when Motorola grew about 35%, Daniel Dombach, Director EMEA IndustrySolutions, said in an interview at the Post-Expo in Hannover earlier this month. Asked about the current impact of the crisis, he commented: "This year is certainly impactedby the crisis with the overall market going down. Our revenues have also gone down, but much moremoderately than the overall market. It will continue to be a hard year." But the US mobile solutions manufacturer remains optimistic for the future. "We are wellpositioned on the market. We are satisfied with the profits we continue to achieve and veryconfident that we will be able to keep our good profits next year," Dombach stated.