The company s first three years experienced strong organic growth of 50% per year.
Not long after it opened, the neighborhood showed the first signs of growth in years.
This was lower than many had expected and the first time in four years a quarterly growth figure was in single digits.
Real annual GDP growth during the first two years of the Obama recovery should average 2.69%.
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For the first time in several years Fastenal reported significant growth in sales numbers from this sector.
Maturity, for a first growth vintage wine is 25 years or so, but then it plateaus for a couple more decades.
This was the highest first-quarter growth rate in six years, buoyed by surging foreign direct investment (up 56.7%) and exports (up by 33%).
Improving economic conditions gave Caterpillar its first quarterly earnings growth in nearly two years, leading the heavy equipment manufacturer to raise its outlook for 2010.
Real GDP growth during the first two years of the Obama recovery should average 2.69%, about half of what is typical for the start of an economic recovery.
This trend went into reverse from late 1998, and the jump in prices over the following two years contributed to first a slowing of economic growth and then the recession in America, which began in March last year.
Those of us who lived through the Reagan years remember the resulting economic growth, but nobody under the age of 30 has first-hand knowledge of those years.
If so, China's trade surplus will shrink in 2009 and, for the first time in years, become a drag on GDP growth.
The barn-burning growth Microsoft experienced during its first 25 years has mellowed considerably, forcing the company to look beyond the desktop for new revenue streams.
And the pace of job growth at new firms during their first five years has been slowing since 1994.
Armed with fresh data, the ONS has taken another look at what happened to the economy before and during the recession: they now think growth was a bit stronger in the first years of the 21st century, but the recession itself was deeper, with a total drop in output of 7.1%, not 6.4% as previously thought.
If so, Europe will probably enjoy faster growth than America for the first time in ten years.
It was the first double-digit profit growth at NBC Universal in three years.
Weinstein notes that non-motors gross merchandise value was up 9.8% in the first quarter, the fastest growth rate in more than three years.
And every region of the country recorded income growth, for the first time in the 24 years that the statistics have been tabulated by region.
These were typically companies that got their first institutional funding by growth equity oriented venture investors in the few years prior to their IPOs.
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The latest figures show it grew at an annual rate of 5.3% in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest pace of growth for nine years.
Armstrong notes that the company yesterday reported Q4 results that included growth in postpaid subscribers for the first time in several years, but that margins remain under pressure and capital spending plans appear higher than previously expected.
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Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) and Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) manufacturer PFB Corporation (TSX:PFB, OTC:PFBOF) did not provide an updated outlook in the first quarter, but has seen continuous sales growth over the last several years, despite the downturn, and is expanding manufacturing in the US and has seen favorable pricing trends beginning to emerge.
The aforementioned powerful growth would produce 6.6 million jobs in the first two years alone, reducing the unemployment rate to 4.6%.
Ueltschi made his fortune through Flightsafety International, one of the first companies to specialize in modern aviation training methods, during the largest growth years for the aviation industry.
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After years of revising growth down and inflation up, this is the first inflation report since 2007 to paint a generally brighter outlook, although the forecasts still show no return to pre-crisis levels of growth.
Value stocks also have performed admirably in presidential first years, rising by more than 10%, versus less than 5% for Growth stocks.
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Indonesia's economy has shown stellar growth in recent years, expanding 6.02% in the first quarter of 2013, according to figures from Indonesia's Bureau of Statistics.
Ad revenue was up 7%, including 18% growth in third party network revenue, and 8% growth in search and contextual revenue, the first quarter of year-over-year growth in that category in over three years.
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For the first time in many years, Germany's domestic demand looks set to contribute more to growth in 2006 than its net exports will.
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