Already inside the gate: the company is specified into someone else's next wave, and the wave has not yet shipped
The model's full reasoning — Q4 2015 call → NOWe need answer only YES or NO. Need analyze transcript. Need determine if management describes already been chosen/specified/designed into another organization's future product/program/platform, wave not yet arrived, position large, preparing. Let's parse. Company Sonoco. They discuss i6 customer engagements, new products like TruVue/clear container, EvoCan, flexibles growth. Need see if any specific "already chosen" by customer for future product not yet launched. They mention TruVue container: "we're still shooting for end of first quarter, early second quarter release." "we expect to continue to roll that product onto shelves sometime in beginning of second quarter." "we've made some improvements in product... feedback from customers... highly positive." "since that meeting in New York, we've had three or four new contact from potential customers that currently use metal cans... about the container." This sounds like product not yet launched, but is it "already chosen, specified, designed in" by another organization? They have a customer launch expected. They say "the launch that we expect to occur sometime early second quarter with a customer." So a customer has chosen? They are launching with a customer. But is that a secured position inside someone else's next product? It's their own product, not necessarily embedded in another's future product. The question asks: company has already been chosen/specified/designed into another organization's future product/program/platform. Here Sonoco is selling packaging to customers. If a customer has selected Sonoco's new container for their product launch, that could be "designed in" to customer's product. But need management convey that selection already happened and wave not yet arrived, and position large relative to company, preparing. They mention TruVue container is a new product, not yet launched, but they have a customer launch expected. However, is it "large relative to company"? They don't quantify. They say "we're looking for that hit, like we talked about in New York on the ClearView container, that is really -- on the TruVue container that's ramping up." Actually "that's ramping up" maybe not yet. They say "we're still shooting for end of first quarter, early second quarter release." So wave ahead. But is it already chosen? They have a customer launch.
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