Automakers and suppliers recognize that better fuel economy equals better sales, better profits and more jobs.
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Last week, Anheuser-Busch Inbev said its quarterly profit jumped 75% on better sales and lower financing costs.
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Better sales or not, this will be clear only after a few weeks of sales comparison between the two games.
From 1995 through the first quarter of 2000 Home Depot had better sales growth at stores open a year or more.
Within his select industries, he finds companies that are cheaper than the peer average and sport better sales growth and return on invested capital.
In corporate news this week, Costco (COST) announced that earnings for the first quarter increased by 30 percent due to better sales and increased membership revenues.
But as the unemployment rate begins to improve for women and discretionary incomes stabilize, Sozzi predicts that women's fashion brands will continue to see better sales.
This puts Ann in a good position to meet client demand in terms of variety and delivery, which will lead to better sales through the e-commerce channel.
Actually the idea for Close.io came from the sales people that the team has on staff needing a better sales teool, says Steli Efti, CEO of Elastic.
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In fact a dominant innovation impetus in the USA, and a model for startup culture, is the incessant race to create more and better sales and marketing channels.
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Management did a decent job of keeping costs low even as they were able to produce better sales and gross margin expanded to 50.9% versus 47.5% in the year ago quarter.
Rolling all the issues together, American companies selling into Japan should plan on better sales in 2012 and 2013 than they had this year, with especially strong sales for products used in rebuilding.
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Even digital downloads provide a better sales opportunity.
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Some of its branded cars like Fiesta, Fusion and Focus have given strong retail sales and a better sales mix in the medium term should give a boost to its market share in the North American car market.
His target audience includes professional services firms in law, accounting, market research and real-estate, hoping that LinkedIn can help their partners prospect for clients, as well as banks, pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers that see LinkedIn as a way of developing better sales contacts.
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Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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With a little hands-on skills training, he or she could end up being the better ad sales generator because he or she is a better values fit.
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Writers want higher repeat fees - residuals - for video and DVD sales and better royalties for sales of TV programmes.
Johnnie Walker is doing even better: sales doubled in east Africa in 2010, to 790, 000 litres.
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That in turn could translate into a better ad sales opportunities in years that follow.
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The company attributed the strong earnings to better copper sales and lower costs.
This classic model certainly delivers value to the organization and enables us to better manage sales, marketing and customer care processes.
Wall Street has come to expect 10% or better annual sales growth in the drug business, whose stocks have beaten the markets overall.
Most analysts are forecasting better industrywide sales in 2012 and beyond.
While the mass layoffs may help the company improve profitability and help Nortel better target sales, the company may see even more benefit from the firing of just seven executives.
"I want a business that is more focused on sales and one that is better at converting sales into profit, " he said.
Recently Toyota reported a 41% increase in March sales, as almost all automakers experienced better than expected sales thanks in part to improving weather.
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"In fact, the momentum has continued with April comparable sales trending at least as strong or better than first quarter sales in every area of the world, " he added.
Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch calculate that in the first week of this earnings season the number of American companies reporting better-than-expected sales outstripped the number reporting better-than-expected profits.
Apple reported better than expected sales of its flagship iPhone and iPad in the March quarter.
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