Commerce Department figures show that sporting-goods stores registered only a slight decline in sales during the recession and that their sales have been growing at a significantly faster pace than those of other stores during the recovery.
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Better-than-expected performance in the mobile and home appliance businesses helped offset a slight decline in overall year-over-year sales for the third quarter.
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Barclays Capital estimates Apple will sell 33.7 million iPads this calendar year and increase sales to 42.1 million in 2012. eMarketer thinks Apple will claim 78% of global tablet sales in 2011, just a slight decrease from its 85% share in 2010.
The great global recession took its toll on revenue in 2009, with sales down 18.7% despite a slight increase in volume from 2008.
We think the decline in Widows OS sales during Q1 will be temporary and expect a slight increase in market share due to the Windows 8 release.
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Even though crossover sales suffered a slight setback in 2009, when the industry was battered by the recession and bankruptcies at General Motors and Chrysler, they have continued to attract new family customers.
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Additionally, Samsung expects to capitalize on a slight increase in demand in emerging markets by expanding sales of its localized models.
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It however witnessed a slight fall in 2009 on account of decline in value sales and exports value.
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In the Life Sciences segment, Corning expects a slight sales decline due to typical seasonal slowdown.
While we expect Cisco will continue with its gradual growth trend in network security sales, the Trefis member community predicts a slight decline.
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Sales of existing homes for January showed a slight increase, but were mostly in line with expectations.
Every slight hiccup in measures of home sales, new construction or mortgage demand is parsed for clues that a stumble is in the offing.
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