One of the major highlights of the August 4 sales release was that the company was forced to spend more on promotions resulting in higher costs and therefore lower margins.
Nevertheless, browser statistics tend to lead actual handset sales information release by as much as 1-2 months, so trying to interpret them is irresistible.
Toyota spokeswoman Sona Iliffe-Moon said the company won't comment about any potential hit to sales or market share before its scheduled release of January sales on February 2.
The companies don't release sales figures for commercial reasons, but say there is a growing demand for the stuff.
Blackberry has yet to release sales figures for its first BB10 devices.
The company did not release sales figures for its new tablet computer, Surface - its answer to Apple's hugely successful iPad.
What is being complained about here is that there is no such boost to PC sales from the release of Windows 8.
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The chain won't release sales numbers, but "we can confirm reports that it was a record-setting day, " said Steve Robinson, Chick-fil-A's executive vice president of marketing.
For "commercial reasons" Royal Mail says it does not release sales figures, and it is hard to know exact numbers, or what age group is buying them.
For the traditional reason for the traditional surge in PC sales on the release of a new OS is that none of the old machines would ever run the new OS in anything under geological timescales.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the NFIB small business index, the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, international trade report, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report and the release of the latest FOMC minutes.
Apple has yet to release individual sales figures for the iPad 4 or the iPad Mini.
Many analysts had expected iPhone sales, following the release of the iPhone 5 in September, to break the 50 million mark.
Harley Davidson didn't release specific sales figures four its four new models, it merely used the quarterly earnings announcement to promote them.
Amazon typically does not release Kindle sales numbers, but analysts project that the company sold between 4 and 6 million Kindle Fire units alone.
One analyst said that sales of the latest release were likely to be limited, but it provided an indication of where the industry was pointed.
Note, other market analysts put Apple at a higher market share in Q1 because Samsung does not release unit sales and these must be estimated.
New-home sales are scheduled for release at 10 a.m.
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Impressively, both new release and catalog sales saw double digit growth of 20 percent in 2011.
As Apple pointed out in its first press release on iPad sales, it only took 28 days to sell 1 million iPads.
On Wednesday, we get the latest reports on producer prices and retail sales, along with the release of the latest FOMC minutes.
Tesco is due to release its Christmas sales data on Thursday.
Mothercare's share price fell 4.1% in early London trading on Thursday following the release of the sales figures, but recovered most of its losses later in the day.
Measured over twelve months, the total sales made by a jaggy release schedule compared to a smooth schedule would likely be similar, but the smoother schedule has a key advantage.
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In other government news, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce a decision on interest rates, the Commerce Department will release new homes sales data for December, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will testify at a House hearing regarding AIG and the Federal Reserve.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, existing home sales, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the release of the minutes of the last FOMC meeting of the Federal Reserve.
Chick-fil-A said it set a sales record Wednesday but declined to release the numbers.
The Semiconductor Industry Association, or SIA, has posted its monthly release covering world semiconductor sales in September.
Some in the industry remain optimistic, believing the upcoming Windows 8 release will spur more sales of computers and bring sales levels back to the way things were before.
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