During the corresponding time, American Railcar Industries, Inc. saw a revenue deteriorated by -17.19 % year on year, sequentially revenue fell by -31.76 %. While revenue at the American Railcar Industries, Inc.'s corporate clients
American Railcar Industries's Comment on Sales, Marketing and Customers
We sell and market our products and services in North America. American Railcar
Leasing, LLC (ARL) markets our railcars for sale or lease and acts as our manager
to lease railcars on our behalf for a fee. ARL is an affiliate of Mr. Carl Icahn,
our principal beneficial stockholder through IELP. We sell our component products
and railcar services through ARI's sales and marketing staff, including sales
representatives who sell directly to customers and catalogs through which our
customers have access to our railcar and industrial components. Our marketing
activities include commodity and industry based market research and analyses,
advertising via electronic and print publications, participation in trade shows
and industry forums and distribution of sales literature and marketing materials.
From time to time, we manufacture and sell railcars to companies controlled
by Mr. Carl Icahn, our principal beneficial stockholder through IELP, including,
but not limited to, ARL and ARL's wholly-owned subsidiary, AEP Leasing LLC (AEP)
(collectively with ARL, the IELP Entities). In 2014, our top three customers,
the IELP Entities, CIT Group, Inc., and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LLC,
