The number of consumer purchases reduced in 2008 and 2009, owing to the weak economy.
It is interesting to observe the varying motivations for luxury consumer purchases in contemporary China.
Smaller merchants have thrived on consumer purchases made with credit and debit cards over the past decade.
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An increasing amount of them, from simple consumer purchases to complex business needs, research their problem on Google.
Consumers have a wide variety of ways to save on other consumer purchases.
First, women drive the majority of consumer purchases, and thus are responsible for the fortunes of most consumer businesses.
As such, the tone of consumer purchases in the US may be changing.
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Consumer purchases, by far the greatest growth driver, increased at an annualized 2%.
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Some 20 years later the stock market reached its old pre-crash peak and the economy powered by pent up consumer purchases, roared ahead.
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And when you add in the fact that 85% of all consumer purchases are made by women, it made sense to launch Her Universe.
Donations are distinctly different than regular consumer purchases and it behooves the non-profit organization to provide flexibility to donors and to maximize fundraising efforts.
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The whom I am referring to is the same group who account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care.
On the economic front, earnings continue to be dominated by inventory restocking as opposed to consumer purchases which are necessary for a recovery to be sustainable.
Service providers pay for real-time TV services on a per-subscriber basis and for consumer purchases of a movie on-demand or a Pay-Per-View event via a transaction fee.
Steve talked about nine Windows Mobile phones on six carriers in 30 countries, with 20K registered developers, and 5500 apps in the store, but again, no mentioned about actual consumer purchases.
To derive an alternative measure, Yiping Huang and his colleagues at Barclays Capital, an investment bank, have tried to pick out those retail sales that are likely to reflect consumer purchases.
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While it is true that there is very little emphasis on gift-giving or large-scale consumer purchases during this time, there are nevertheless some trading ideas for this holiday, as with most holidays.
They found that on average roughly 16% of the dollars borrowed went toward consumer purchases, 35% went toward home improvements, 26% went to repaying other debt, and the remaining portion went to stock market and business investments.
Economists expected incomes to increase by only 0.4%, showing that more income is flowing into households, but it is also apparently being saved, as consumer purchases dropped compared with December, to an increase of 0.2% in January.
"Buckets for the Cure" website states, albeit at the very bottom, that individual consumer purchases will not directly increase the total donation -- rather that the money is determined by purchases of buckets by KFC restaurant operators.
With an understanding based only on correlation and not causality, we challenge mix modelers to rationally explain where their long-term factor comes from (whatever value it is) and by what mechanism or how it becomes actual, longer-term consumer purchases.
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It lacks personality, tends to be overpriced, holds little sentimental value (if a consumer purchases it online) and can be a pain to acquire if a fan takes a piece of equipment to a game or trade show hoping to gain the sparse attention of a player.
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Consumer purchases ranging from buying a new car to purchasing movie tickets or seats to see a favorite NBA basketball team all help illustrate both the extent to which Chinese companies have entered our lives in America, and underscore the fact that typical American consumers, may not even know which companies are made in China in the first place.
Promisingly, the Chinese bank regulator announced draft rules in May to allow domestic and foreign institutions to set up consumer-finance firms to offer personal loans for consumer-goods purchases.
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If the intent is to convert consumer interest to purchases it might be time to reduce the volume on talking babies and dancing monkeys and up the attention on brand.
The consumer with the most purchases in the least amount of time wins!
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First, they raise the cost of borrowing and so deter new investment or purchases of consumer durables on credit.
But retailers are pressing for change with greater vigor this year, given that the recession accelerated a consumer shift to Internet purchases.
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