Raising rates on a national sales tax would be a difficult task.
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Not only do those pressures create a more difficult sales environment for Altria, but the publicity regarding health risks also increases the potential for lawsuits.
If Tiffany were to lose this business it would have created a huge sales hole that would be difficult to fill particularly during a time when consumers have become much more cautious of their discretionary spending.
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Firstly, it faces a difficult comparison since the sales in the first three months of 2012 were unusually high.
Many companies are finding themselves at a difficult crossroads: Ticket sales for their traditional "Nutcracker" productions are flat or sagging, but the costs of creating new versions can be overwhelming.
It would be difficult to describe the electric car as a sales hit really.
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We have maintained our estimates despite a difficult business environment as we believe the expected sales from merchandise and media should offset the decline in operating margin forecasts.
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Richard Thomas of Traffic told CNN that Internet sales of ivory was potentially a major problem that was difficult to combat, but said eBay had been good at monitoring and removing anything illegally posted for sale on the site.
Without a catalyst like a notable surge in comparative-store sales, it may be difficult to predict the holiday sales environment.
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In August 2000, Eli Primrose-Smith , IBM's vice president of sports marketing, told Forbes.com that it was difficult to calculate any increase in sales as a result of its involvement with the games.
Building the passionate sales force and a similar culture to Groupon would be much more difficult to achieve.
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Given the many economic headwinds facing the U.S. economy (high unemployment, low consumer spending, increasing commodity prices and the fear of tightening credit given the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe to name a few) prospects for increased corporate earnings stemming from increased sales seem difficult.
Given past cutting measures, maintaining strong earnings growth could prove difficult for those companies unable to find a way to increase sales.
Ford skeptics worry that problems in Europe, where the economy has depressed sales and unions have made cost cutting difficult, will keep a lid on profits.
Away from device sales, the company's location and commerce department had a difficult quarter, but the sale of map content licenses (to companies like Amazon) offset the dwindling popularity of standalone GPS units.
After years of racking up sales in excess of 17 million vehicles, automakers are bracing for a difficult stretch.
In Lebanon, a thriving market in smuggled artefacts has sprung up partly because legal sales are so difficult (see article).
Curious to see whether those asset sales include deepwater projects that would be more difficult to operate under a new regulatory regime.
Overemphasizing sales targets at the expense of making a difference for customers makes it extremely difficult for salespeople to differentiate themselves from the competition.
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As a non-sales, non-marketing, non-manager, I find it difficult to quantify my achievements.
First, a misconception: The PSR is a much more reliable measure than the price-to-earnings ratio because sales are difficult to fake.
That makes it difficult for sales, marketing, customer service and operations to gain a complete and authoritative view of this business-critical information.
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One of the most difficult things to do in the pharmaceutical industry is to predict peak sales of a drug.
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The big drop was defined by auto sales, which fell as the tight credit conditions made it especially difficult to obtain a car loan.
Across the states, a myriad of businesses from hair braiding to casket sales to interior decorating have licensing programs designed to make it difficult, sometimes impossible, for upstart competitors to enter the market.
Since the intangible benefits of buying a hybrid are difficult to quantify, calculating the payback usually focuses on the specific hybrid you buy, sales price differential to a standard car, projected gas costs, maintenance costs and tax rebates.
Volkswagen's head of sales and marketing, Detlef Wittig, was also reported as saying that he expected 2010 to be a "difficult year" as the ebbing of government subsidies led to a fall in overall demand.
But, he said, there is little any one car company can do to tackle the heart of the matter: imploding sales exacerbated by austerity programs across the continent demand the closure and idling of car plants a difficult, and in some cases, impossible thing to accomplish given the unions and politics of Europe.
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We also took a detailed look at how the leading luxury brands are performing, in areas that are more difficult to measure than sales.
Until this study, it was difficult to measure if what people say to each other about their brand experience has a direct effect on sales.
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