Consider the fate of Tommy Hilfiger, which is reorganizing after sales plummeted last year.
Dan Creed, in charge of after sales, will become vice president of marketing for BMW of North America.
Hornby issued a profits warning in January after sales of its train and slot-car racing sets were hit.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered.
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President Peter Jacobi retired in January, after sales in 1998 at the privately held San Francisco apparel manufacturer plunged 13% from the year before.
That allowed carmakers to sell off much of their excess inventory after sales collapsed from 13.2 million vehicles in 2008 and 16.1 million in 2007.
After sales of LCD TV sets grew last year, sales are expected to slow 13% this year, according to a report by research firm DisplaySearch.
Samsung Electronics will not promote its new tablet computer at one of the world's largest electronics shows after sales of the product were blocked in Germany.
Outsourcing of manufacturing, for instance, is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
We duly got in contact with their after sales people, sending pictures of the faults we could find along with the quality assurance labels and descriptions of the faults.
Part of its production is already carried out in Bulgaria but after sales in its home country plummeted by 40% last year, it is now looking at moving all of its manufacturing across the border.
The results also suggested that women have been returning to the stores in droves after sales at women's clothing stores, including Ann Taylor and Chico's, slowed down in late 2007 as the economy began to contract.
David Acheson, the chief medical officer of the FDA's food safety division, said his agency is working with food companies to get spinach from other areas back onto grocery shelves after sales were suspended around the country.
As I discuss in The Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, for instance, outsourcing of manufacturing is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered as rivals including Hewlett-Packard figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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Sales Problems: Real sales growth (that is, after inflation) from 2006 to 2007 was essentially flat, after which sales cratered by 15%, thanks to the recession.
Further headwinds can be found in Europe, weakness in the euro may lower comparable sales in that region and almost certainly after those sales are translated back into relatively stronger dollars.
But March's sales slide was not as bad as expected after the sales disaster in February, and it could be that, war and all, car sales have bottomed out.
Surprisingly, property investment has rebounded after property sales bottomed at the start of last year.
It hopes that exploiting such "big data" will help revive its flagging fortunes after falling sales.
Products are now launched on a worldwide market pretty much simultaneously, and customers expect after-sales service.
Experts have also highlighted problems with other contracts, in particular with after-sales service and spare parts.
As newcomers in the handset business, the Chinese are still learning about after-sales service.
Poor after-sales service meant attempts to rectify problems with the work hit a brick wall, he added.
It has slashed jobs and cut its dividend after suffering sales declines, a bribery probe and other problems.
Even after these sales, the Kirchners recorded a further 26 properties or plots of land on their books.
Kelon's Rongsheng ("pleasant music") model soon became one of China's top brands, renowned for reliability and after-sales service.
Chinese car makers still lag their foreign competitors in providing such after-sales service.
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It went into administration in January with the loss of about 25 jobs after poor sales towards the end of 2012.
Indeed, Mr. Lipsman says that after online sales spiked in November and December, sales in ensuing months would remain above preholiday levels.
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