Earlier this year, Brazilian plane maker Embraer appointed actor Jackie Chan as its brand ambassador in a bid to boost sales of private jets in the Chinese market.
About two weeks after rejecting a sales bid that would have had the team moving 750 miles north to Washington state, the NBA board of governors on Tuesday approved the Kings' sale to a local ownership group helmed by Vivek Ranadive.
Some High Street chains started offering price discounts as early as mid-November, in a bid to challenge slow sales.
Star River in December offered discounts of as much as 20% to buyers of its units in Shanghai in a bid to boost flagging sales.
Carrefour posted a large rise in net profit and said it is giving more autonomy to its all-under-one-roof stores in a bid to stem sliding sales in France.
The retail had placed a greater emphasis on international sales in a bid for new growth opportunities.
The rule, known as the uptick, said traders could only place short-sales following a higher bid in a stock price.
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An additional reason for close scrutiny was the likely effect of holiday sales results on a potential bid by Richard Schulze to take the company private.
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Worse, in a bid to offset the decline in music sales, companies raised the price of their CDs, which only increased the incentive to download them illegally.
For the first time in decades the group is overhauling fundraising and staging attention-getting gimmicks in a bid to increase individual donations and lift sagging sales in its 1, 550 U.S. thrift shops.
That move would allow the smart cheater to get long the calls for a slightly lower cost and make the call trades look like sales since they got traded on the bid.
Executives say the partnership could accelerate Chrysler's bid to grow beyond North America, where 92% of its sales are.
While the commissioners acknowledged that the People's Lottery not-for-profit bid could see more money go to charity, they highlighted uncertainty in achievable sales and greater risks in terms of financial soundness and costs.
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American rival Warner Music Group, which had been expected to make a counter-bid for EMI last year, has also attempted to restructure in order to stem declining compact disc sales and capture more digital revenues.
But though his call for the resumption of oil sales (he is now demanding a time limit) had some political and commercial support, his bid to dictate the nationality of the inspectors has none.
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