It became a huge amount of work in December. There was no sponsor, no system for ticket sales, no program book.
Mark Sforzini
The office vacancy rate is low, condominium sales are doing very well and the asset development business is performing better than we thought. We focused on reducing interest-bearing debt in the past, but as the property market recovers, we would like to focus more on growth.
Keiji Kimura
A lot of people can barely afford it before the sales tax came in, and now it makes it more expensive.
David Olin
We came up with a partnership opportunity that leverages [Bravo's] efforts in gay programming and our strength in national advertising sales.
Mark Elderkin
The bank that was running frame relay to connect branches has a plan to move to IP networks. Another thing is that a lot of networks aren't ready for [voice over IP]. That's also driving sales of networking gear. Cisco has a strong story there with its Integrated Services Routers.
Matthias Machowinski
I feel like it was geared more toward other majors like engineering, sales and finance, and I'm not really interested in any of those fields of work. I graduated in May, and I'm looking for a job in marketing or communications.
Jennifer Edwards
We believe the competitive and economic environment will remain very challenging in the year ahead. Whilst we think we have the opportunity to make improvements to some of our ranges, we are still budgeting on the basis of negative like-for-like retail sales for the year.
Simon Wolfson
In the past, we believe Apple's shares have presented buying opportunities when its sales are constrained, with pent-up demand for new products.
Benjamin Reitzes
With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually improving global conditions, we look for a return to our more traditional sales and earnings performance levels in the second half of the year.
Michael Hawley
We definitely see a leveling off in sales growth this year. However, there are a number of positive factors -- such as improvements in disposable income, increased corporate spending and relatively low unemployment -- that will help maintain sales.
Jay Mcintosh
Merck has been hopelessly disappointing. The profit development is significantly below forecasts despite higher sales.
Heino Ruland
Our increased level of investment in marketing and sales, with the priority on key growth drivers, resulted in a sales growth of 21 percent in Pharmaceuticals in the U.S.,
Daniel Vasella
We would like to see local taxes be more balanced and not overly rely on the sales tax. On the other hand, both statewide and presumably locally, we're not only interested in fairness, but we're also interested in adequate revenue for the state and presumably the local government, too.
Dick Williams
Despite rising fuel prices, devastating weather events and a difficult market environment, Chrysler Group products continued to deliver quarterly gains in market share, retail sales and shipments.
Tom Lasorda
Sales for the first half of the month were terrible, but September finished fast, ... You'll see that reflected in October's sales figures.
Bob Israel
He's not one to go into the barn and spend hours with the horses - he enjoys the buying of the horses. He comes and looks at the horses with me and we go to the sales together there and at the races.
Dan Hendricks
Mouser grew sales 30% in 2005 and over the past five years our compound annual growth rate was 22%. I believe the growth can be sustained.
Kevin Hess
I think you're seeing some movement on the retail sales and oil, but I don't think it's meaningful. I still think this market will grudgingly go up.
Kurt J. Wolfgruber
Investors are pretty much focused on the home sales figures today. Weaker data will reduce expectations for further rate hikes in the U.S.
Michiyoshi Kato
[He points to booming auto sales as proof that consumers are still buying gas guzzlers even in the face of soaring prices.] They complain about the cost of gasoline, but when GM, Ford and Chrysler had their employee-discount programs, guess what they bought? ... You're watching this and scratching your head.
Jack Kyser
It's like the last two minutes of a football or a basketball game. About 10 to 15 percent of holiday sales happen between Christmas and New Year's, and this year about 10 percent of sales are in the first three weeks of January.
Richard Feinberg
With the great variety of restaurants we have, people are coming to Asheville as a culinary destination. We're seeing a lot of ticket sales for the showcase to people in Greenville, S.C., and Charlotte.
Meghan Rogers
Denver's hotel market is just starting to turn around, so I think we're going to continue to see more and more sales in Colorado.
Mike Cahill
The blade announced by IBM is a direct outcome of collaboration with IBM for a year-plus. We're very excited their sales force will get behind that product.
Joel Radford
Lottery sales are going great. It's just a mess.
Dennis Thornton
The store investments may pay dividends for the company this summer, when the sales are at their highest.
Cid Wilson
The program is growing month-over-month. Dealer feedback is positive. It allows customers to experience the Subaru brand at a lower price point, bringing new customers to the brand. It gives dealers an edge over used car sales and individual sales competition.
Lisa Fleming
As our product line continues to become more diversified, we have become less dependent on Prozac performance. Major products introduced in the last five years accounted for fully one-third of our sales in 1999 and had a combined growth rate of 41 percent during the year.
Sidney Taurel
We thought we could grow the business if we could help the sales team treat all of their customers in new ways.
Stephen Hopkins
Sales managers will be picking out the largest opportunities, the two or three out of 12 that are going to land the big bucks. They're going to be looking at which accounts are generating the most revenue, where are the biggest pipelines, and which pipelines are growing the fastest.
Mark Vayda
Our 1 percent growth in Europe is affected by currency. In the quarter, the effect of the euro took about 9 percentage points of growth. That's still good growth. I'd love to see North American sales be higher than that. Our focus is to grow the top line, but profitably.
Kevin Murai
After a few years, peak sales of any effective osteoporosis agent could reach well over $1 billion.
Andrew Mcdonald
We have to do better than we have done, ... It's like a sales forecast, you have to do better than you have done in previous years. I think we have to focus on what you're trying to do here.
Francis Harvey
We'll continue to adjust our staffing levels to the sales performance we have.
Blake Nordstrom
The figures reflect good growth and bode well for 2006 for two reasons: international prices (for commodities) are very solid, as well as domestic demand, especially investment which means there will be a bigger rise in productive capacity and sales.
Joseph Ramos
The fact that all of a sudden, we've increased the Sun sales force by well over 1,000 storage-savvy salespeople combined with the breadth of the product line allows us to have a fundamentally different conversation with a customer than we were able to have before.
Mark Canepa
They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.
Brian Ambrose
Consumers continued to spend right up to Christmas. Considering the post-holiday sales over the next few weeks and consumers' eagerness to purchase items they may not have received during the holidays, we expect that spending in the final days of 2004 will continue to rise.
Wayne Best
Sales have sky rocketed on mall-wide gift cards, and often times they will come back in the week after Christmas.
Debbie Martinez
There's really no precedent for Viagra to know exactly what it means for future sales.
Richard Stover
We have a plan to reduce the county's sales tax by one percent, ... thereby reducing the cost of gas for the consumer. We (county) will have to make due with a little less and make a cut in the price of gas that will be visible to the consumer. If we have to tighten our belts a little bit then that is what we will do.
Jim Wallace
It's worth it, absolutely, because in the long run we'll be more efficient. A beautiful display behind the bar makes things a lot more attractive and can generate sales.
Andrew Manios
The appreciation of the U.S. dollar will help inflate Asian exporters' overseas sales when converted back to their local currencies.
Barro Liao
If there is any angle to that, it would be not only that (sales were good) but also that we picked up some new fans by people that responded to the DVDs. It's happened in TV before, so I'm hoping for the best.
Bill Lawrence
I think putting it out anonymously backfired for us. It hurt our sales because people want a name. They wanted a real person.
Dan Halpern
The big pharmaceutical companies are set up to handle blockbusters with their massive sales forces, and I don't think they have done anything to really address this future in any useful way.
Regina Herzlinger
This commitment gives the Company a funding path to begin manufacturing the Phantom Lapboard and to launch marketing and sales for the lapboard which we target for mid 2006 allowing us to start building our manufacturing lines this year, and continue our initiative to launch the Phantom Game Service.
Greg Koler
December's barely passable sales made it evident that Wal- Mart must make changes in its U.S. division with even greater zeal.
Bernard Sosnick
Leeward is an area that's continuing to grow, even though the overall market on Oahu has slowed down. It's interesting to note how healthy those sales are in comparison to the rest of the island.
Harvey Shapiro
We will continue to accelerate our sales push to stay as the leading plasma TV maker, and we aim to capture some 40 pct of the market.
Tetsuya Kawakami
The company is being ultra-competitive on prices and that's propelling sales.
Dan Geiman
If we have a surge in sales on Saturday ... it's a possibility that [the jackpot] can exceed or reach $300 million.
Tony Cooper
The road ahead for GM does not look much better -- we expect continued market share declines in a modestly lower U.S. vehicle sales environment.
Rob Hinchliffe
We're filling the pipeline to retailers and sales reports so far are very positive.
Jodi Sally
The strength in this component, which includes apparel and home entertainment goods, bodes well for Christmas retail sales.
Carolyn Kwan
In Europe, comparable sales rose 3.6% in August, due to strong performance in France and Germany partly offset by continued weakness in the United Kingdom, ... We will build on this encouraging business momentum with successful customer-focused plans across Europe.
Jim Skinner
For the balance of fiscal 2001, we are focusing on moderate top line sales growth with a very keen focus on gross margin enhancement and expense reduction.
Leonard Roberts
To have taken the attack personally, posting widespread reductions in expected real sales gains over the next three months.
William Dunkelberg
During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.
Gunter Thielen
Sales growth is very stable, so no bumpy ride there, even though the momentum is a little bit negative.
Vivienne Hsu
Being new in the market, is certainly very important. And we expect both Polo and Fiesta to increase sales quite significantly.
Stephen Reitman
We are seeing the economy slowing down, and that is affecting same-store sales.
Jharonne Martis
Bookings in January and February 2006 were the strongest first and second months of any quarter in Microchip's history, providing improved visibility for the balance of the March quarter and into the June period. We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.
Steve Sanghi
Portable, easy-to-eat foods are changing the way Americans eat. Pizza has long been a mealtime favorite, and its popularity continues to grow across all categories, when sold by the slice, for take-out or delivery, even frozen pizza sales are up.
Kathy Hasty
As you can see in our sales numbers, those are selling very well without putting any incentives on it. There's no reason to use incentives.
Yuzuru Matsuno
Our impressive same store sales growth reinforces our plan to open additional stores in 2006.
Mark Craft
[Ron Miller, co-owner of NuCar Chevrolet, also reported solid sales in August, despite the bad news from Hurricane Katrina nationally and potential layoffs at MBNA locally. NuCar has locations in Newark, Middletown and near New Castle.] Our sales were fine, ... On par with another August.
Aaron Miller
I'd be surprised if we get tacit admission from the company, but the takeover probably distracted Oracle's front-line sales reps and customers.
Jason Brueschke
We expect Land Rover sales to expand moderately in 2006 due to a full year of Range Rover Sport sales.
Joe Barker
We are feeling a bit of sticker shock, at 1.3 times sales.
Myles Walton
I would not be surprised to see sales in the second half of 1996 and sales in the first half of 1997 to be under pressure as a result of this finding.
David Garrity
As people live with them and maybe do some math, and if prices stay at the premium stage, you're just going to see sales slow.
Rebecca Lindland
If the retail sales number is a little lighter than forecast, that may be seen as bullish for stocks in that it takes the edge off the inflation issue.
Stephen Leeb
The issue here is what tactics should be used to reach them? Are companies looking to create an educated sales process or just dropping banner ads?
Jeff Levitan
We don't need to be going out there as two different brands. We will be able to quickly go in and integrate those enterprise sales forces.
Peter Ritcher
The key was the weak retail sales report that helped bond yields come in.
Alec Young
While prices of basic materials surged and competition got challenging, sales of our digital cameras and laser beam printers grew strongly on the back of strong price competitiveness, allowing us to achieve a record-breaking performance.
Toshizo Tanaka
[The Plan B decision] is a double standard based on age for over-the-counter sales.
Susan Wood
This is very much a good sign for holiday PC sales.
Apjit Walia
A couple decent quarters do not a turnaround make. The competitive issues haven't changed that much. February sales looked better but they're also set against easier comparisons. There's still a long way to go until a real turnaround.
George Whalin
Many builders appear to be taking a more cautious attitude because of uncertainties in the economy and this post-Katrina environment, particularly with regard to sales expectations in the near term.
Dave Wilson
The instant built-in audience for the winners is enormous, so if even a fraction of viewers download a new single or buy a CD, it's an enormous amount of sales. It's a huge payday for the artist and the label.
Barry Jeckell
The sales produce virtually all of our net.
Nick Nicholson
As soon as the gas prices jump, then people are in here looking at the hybrids. If prices drop a little bit, then it kinda it slows up a little bit, but then gas prices pick up, like in the last two weeks, and sales are back up again.
Bill Spencer
This is an impressive like-for-like figure and encouraging news for retailers in the capital, especially considering the severe and very worrying drop in sales seen in July through to October last year.
Kevin Hawkins
We want to increase sales further this year. We have made a good start with January's results.
Michael Ganal
That's our sales office right there.
Larry Hart
We expect strong year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter, and our outlook for growth in 2000 remains strong. We expect that in 2000, our overall operating loss will decrease significantly as a percentage of sales.
Warren Jenson
Our strong first quarter was achieved without any sales increase [in cereal], with a volume decline, ... Going forward, we expect cereal sales to grow for the balance of the year.
Steve Sanger
We are very excited and pleased with the $22,000 in sales.
Debbie Baker
Our rug and furniture divisions have two separate sales organizations, so we have chosen to showcase each in two separate High Point showrooms.
Arash Yaraghi
What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to see a continued recovery in coming months, but nothing dramatic.
Michael Penn
They are continuing to be tight on costs, and the merchandise sales look fine.
Barbara Miller
Apparel retailers were showing strong double-digit increases over last year. Jewelry retailers also showed strong sales.
David Keating
We don't care that much about Warren Beatty, and based on his ticket sales from the past generation, I doubt anyone else does either.
Margita Thompson
We've already got reports that sales were down this last weekend over last year. I'm sure there's been an impact on tourism as well.
Kathryn Wylde
We expect DVDs to account for nearly 80 percent of total rental sales at the fiscal year's end in March.
Hirofumi Shirakata
The dollar has shown not a great deal of reaction largely because the retail sales headline data looked pretty bad but the revisions to the prior data pretty much offset that.
John Beerling
Investors are becoming bullish on the sales outlook for electronics industries. Retailers may continue to rise on expectations that increased winter sales will boost corporate earnings.
Atsushi Osa
He took a lot of sales away from him. Dorsey Burnette was white, so therefore they started buying Dorsey Burnette instead of Slim Harpo.
William Gambler
Retailers came out with pretty good reports. One would think we'll see a pretty good retail sales number, and that would give support to the market, absent much higher core inflation numbers.
John Augustine
We want to increase sales to women, but our goals vary by GM brand.
Brenda Rios
It would be an entity that would define our boundaries in The Woodlands. It would allow for a central form of government operation and would probably consist of a normal form of tax revenue and sales tax revenue.
Bruce Tough
As far as I can recall, the least we'd had were 25 people in previous seasons. We've had bad sales, but never like this.
Carlos Gonzalez
Opening an eastern Canadian facility, with a dedicated customer service team, and adding key sales personnel in Canada certainly supports our business in this important market. Phillips is focused on improving communication and meeting on-time delivery requirements for all our Canadian customers.
Rob Phillips
It definitely shows what the figures have shown all year. Home sales continue to be strong.
Dave Phillips
When you walk into our mattress department our sales people are not going to come pouncing on you.
Barry Tatelman
There's a lot of competition in that area and it's an area that's currently being investigated by various legal entities. Plus, they are a one-product company, so any one quarter can be difficult if sales slow.
Mark Basham
It seems like we're still kind of waiting to see if it's really going to move the needle. You guys talk about the new products and how well they're doing. I guess it's just hard to say that that's important if you can't get your overall sales up.
Ron Tadross
Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.
John Vigeland
We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.
Dave Andrew
At the end of the day, it has to result in sales.
Steve Tihanyi
The economy has defied predictions of a slowdown through the first quarter and there is clear evidence that strong industry sales are on track to continue well into the summer.
Yale Gieszl
The major factor driving this improvement was a dramatic 66 percent increase in storage onion prices. This pushed the value of sales for dry storage onions to $73.4 million, about 65 percent higher than the 2004 figure.
Larry Burt
We were obviously disappointed by sales for this holiday season, particularly because we had been outperforming the retail sector as a whole for the previous nine months.
Leonard Riggio
The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft.
Christie Hefner
What has really helped the quarter is very good sales because of El Nino. El Nino, is blamed for many things, but this time it can take credit for the boost in sales.
Daniel Barry
Best Buy is the best of breed in the consumer electronics space right now. Circuit City's problems are worsening. It's really a questionable move for the company to get rid of some of its best sales people when its sales are eroding.
Donald Trott
Technology products are driving our sales. The really hot products at the moment are the digital cameras and MP3 players. We stock every new technology product that comes out and they are really belting out the door.
Gerry Harvey
We expect to hear that Harley-Davidson sales were up nicely during the quarter since we had known that January and February sales were up 10%.
Robin Farley
If you want true economic development in Pleasant Grove, you have to look beyond sales tax, you have to look at creating jobs. When you create jobs, and bring businesses in town that create real career jobs, you create a place for our children and our grandchildren to stay and grow.
Mike Daniels
If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.
Scott Hodge
We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.
Brian Lucas
I have seen what I expected to see. I've seen people out doing a lot of window shopping, people doing some buying, lots of folks lined up before the crack of dawn to get the hot toys. I saw consumers out there feeling good, attracted by the big sales, but nothing to justify the gloomy sales forecasts people have made.
Pamela Rucker
They had strong sales in consumer and construction, which more than offset lagging agricultural sales. Their end markets are turning favorable as the non-residential construction market rebounds.
Jeff Graff
Starting with the recession in the mid-70's, the worse the economy got the better Wal-Mart sales would be. Now, like everybody else, Wal-Mart is using every excuse in the book to disguise company-specific problems.
Burt Flickinger
Some say the U.S. economy may be strengthening, but there's as much of a head wind coming from Europe and Asia, ... Half of 3M's sales are from overseas.
David Begleiter
It was a tough year, ... We didn't have a hot toy and we didn't have a big movie to push sales of licensed products.
Jim Silver
The slowdown in PC sales has been pretty well documented, and we're trying to give consumers a reason to buy.
Brad Williams
Results for Winnebago Industries' fourth quarter were negatively impacted by lower sales volume and a shift in product mix to lower priced motor homes, particularly Class C's, offset in part by lower incentive compensation expenses.
Bruce Hertzke
The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
Mack Bradley
I do think there's a supply issue in San Joaquin County. There's not enough being built, but certain markets such as Patterson and Lathrop got too pricey, and sales slowed down.
Greg Paquin
The general consensus (on 2004 sales) is 17 million. If manufacturers come on strong with incentives, it'll easily be 17 million. If they pull back -- and there's been a lot of discussion of them pulling back -- it could be 16.5.
Bob Schnorbus
Kmart's sales for the month were on plan and we are pleased with our progress in a number of key businesses.
Floyd Hall
The money's just coming in a different part of the release model since most of it's from DVD sales. This is still going to be one of the three biggest years in box office receipts, and by the way, they're bringing in $20 billion more in DVD revenue. So the studios are still getting their money. It's the exhibitors who have a concern.
David Mumpower
Consistent with our prior comments on Mervyn's and Marshall Field's, our top priority is to improve the performance at both these divisions, ... The policies in place strive to drive sales and traffic and are actively focused on these initiatives.
Cathy Wright
Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.
Henning Kagermann
Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there is an expectation of strong third quarter sales.
Krishna Shankar
Sales in China are going really well. We're getting a lot of interest. We're very excited.
Don Robinson
Some analysts are trying to dismiss the retail sales as an aberration but the market will have a reality check this week on the New Zealand rate outlook with the consumer prices index.
Danica Hampton
Just because a marketplace gets crowded doesn't mean that it will have a negative impact on sales. The market is certainly growing based on the demographics.
Andrew Mcdonald
O'Sullivan emerges from Chapter 11 with new ownership, a very manageable debt load, leaner more efficient operations and a renewed focus on our customers and consumers. O'Sullivan has had its challenges in the past, but we are now poised to drive sales and profitability for O'Sullivan and our key customers through innovations in design, assembly, merchandising, advertising and promotions.
Rick Walters
We actually are pegging LCD-TV sales at about 27 percent of the global market in 2007.
David Naranjo
Sales of especially our new systems will grow clearly by two-digit rates annually until 2015.
Bernd Bohr
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
Bill Delahunt
Any time that you're making cold calls or making sales, you're going to call 100 people, and if you get one good result you're happy. It's a numbers thing.
Brian Dimartino
I don't know whether we're going to pull it all from sales taxes, impact fees or a combination.
Jason Harper
Palm Beach has never brought us the sales that we would have liked.
George Jousma
We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.
Steve Sanghi
Today, to compete anywhere, you have to be everywhere. Wal-Mart and Target have joined Amazon and eBay as the most heavily trafficked e-commerce Web sites, and chain retailers account for about 40% of online sales, compared to just over 25% for pure-play Internet retailers.
Jeffrey Grau
There are lots of other places to cut costs, including direct-to-consumer advertising. But even with a radical restructuring, Pfizer will need multiple new blockbusters to make up for shrinking sales of drugs losing patent protection -- and doesn't have them.
Max Jacobs
The numbers are there. They're seeing better comps (comparable-store sales). They are resetting the aisles, or just repositioning some of the product, and they're getting more competitive from a pricing point of view. But it's still a challenge. It's a very competitive environment for them.
Bruce Missett
New growth drivers are more of an issue for Home Depot than Lowe's. Lowe's domestically still has about half the sales of Home Depot. To some extent, Home Depot's growth opportunity is limited in the U.S. where it already has nearly 2,000 stores.
Anthony Chukumba
Sometimes when retailers get big same-store sales increases, you have to look behind the numbers.
Dana L. Telsey
Canadian Tire is doing brilliantly. Their big new stores are great, and they are delivering fabulous sales and are well laid out.
John Chamberlain
January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.
David Keating
Today's retail sales report does not alter, in any way, our expectations for the Bank of Canada to continue lifting rates up to a more neutral level of four per cent by the end of April.
Carl Gomez
Profitability at banks was not as good as we expected and retailers won't have any more occasion to register big sales until Spring.
Hajime Yagi
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
Phyllis Schlafly
That contract accounted for £20m of sales so we decided to make the best bean around. We added more tomato paste and some different spices and people love it.
Robert Schofield
It's an option being presented to us as a possibility to raise funds for capital outlay. I think it is too premature to know if it would apply to us. We have our sales tax and impact fee, but, obviously, we need to look at everything with the cost of construction going up.
Harry Kinnan
If sales continue falling at this rate, poultry farms may have to close.
Spyros Nonikas
Made in Germany is a big trademark, and the products are heading to the U.S., Eastern Europe and Asia. Germany still depends on sales abroad, but the recovery is broadening.
Stefan Bielmeier
The momentum continues to steady for its sales, and we now expect 'Living History ' to be one of the best-selling non-fiction titles of the year.
Carolyn Brown
It is our job to put together an energetic sales organization to bring Point of Care Dispensing into main stream medical focus. With the best compensation plan in the industry, we will attract the most qualified sales agents.
Jeff Dodson
We concentrated on one game at a time. We know that Mount de Sales is a quality team and that they deserved all of our attention tonight.
Charlie Parrish
Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales. You do that by getting people coming through your front door or your front gate. Potentially it can make a big difference in profits or losses.
Desmond Jolly
We'll continue to assess the sales, profit and investment on each of our stores, but we do not expect another closing of this size in the near term. In retail you're always reviewing your fleet, making changes to the fleet whether it's closings or openings.
Jack Ferry
It's hard to say, but we've estimated an overall drop of about 20 to 25 per cent on our total sales.
Paul Shoucair
When hotels close it causes a serious loss, not only in terms of room sales, but also in terms of jobs and tax revenues.
Larry White
South Korea and India are key markets for diesel growth in Asia, and the market in China is continuously developing. However, near- and mid-term prospects for diesel vehicle sales in Japan remain limited. There has been some rejection of diesel technology among consumers, despite Japanese manufacturers embracing the technology.
Alastair Bedwell
In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India.
David Albright
The sale fits perfectly into our plans to provide the company with the liquidity that enables us to accelerate our sales and product development efforts while promoting the best interests of our customers and shareholders.
Todd Gresham
Why are we downgrading the stock now? Mainly because of our belief that sales may not be advancing at the rate that we had previously anticipated and also because of the impending departure of Galli.
Tom Courtney
The sales process has to be more tightly regulated to ensure that consumers get all the information upfront and are not bamboozled with offers for taking out the card whilst the sky-high interest rates are barely mentioned.
Phil Evans
Consumers continue to expand their online buying into new product categories as they become more comfortable shopping online, ... This mainstreaming of the Web into consumers' lives not only fuels online sales, but also creates new opportunities for retailers to successfully grow their online businesses.
Carrie Johnson
It's no longer the default segment that everybody just falls into. You have to have a product that's that much better to pull people in -- or depend on fleet sales.
Karl Brauer
We're seeing across the board buying after tame employment data out of the U.S., which is reducing pressure for interest rate hikes, and a good response to residential property sales over the weekend.
Herbert Lau
Going into the year, our No. 1 challenge was to improve sales trends at Taco Bell and KFC, and I am encouraged by progress at both brands.
David Novak
After several strong months of retail sales growth, it seems clear that the economy is picking up momentum just in time for the holidays.
Rosalind Wells
There is a huge amount of toy sales that doesn't come from toy stores. So far, their site still isn't great, but investors are wondering what will happen when they get it right.
Seema Williams
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