We forecast sales rising from 56 million in 2011 to 375 million in 2016.
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Hoffman expects the maker of technology for wireless phones to forecast sales of 96 million handsets--a figure he deems conservative.
For example, if you're interviewing for a finance position working closely with the sales division, it's likely you'll be asked about your ability to forecast sales.
There were dissenters, however, with some expecting better-than-forecast sales to drive stocks higher and a few warning that disappointing results would be a negative for the market.
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Jon had a different idea: what if there was a single application that could, as a team, manage customer records, manage calendars, track sales interactions, and even be used to track and forecast sales, and generally become a common sales and marketing automation system?
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Japan's Honda has reported a jump in third-quarter profits as US sales recover, but cut its annual forecast as sales in China and Europe drop.
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The halt of sales and production of the company's most popular U.S. models will cause this month's sales to tumble 12 percent compared to January 2009, according to a forecast from sales tracker Edmunds.com.
Still, Ralph Lauren offered a sales forecast that indicates that it expects sales to improve.
Last year, analysts forecast smartphone sales of 2.3 billion from 2010-2015 on a global basis.
They have forecast robust sales for Samsung's latest smartphone model, the Galaxy S4, which is set to hit the stores later this month.
Peugeot has forecast a sales fall of up to 5% this year, although since that guidance was given the chief executive has said that the outlook has worsened.
Merck didn't actually forecast total sales for Zetia and Vytorin.
The studies in two types of hemophilia both succeeded this fall, and analysts now forecast annual sales of the drugs in the low hundreds of millions of dollars.
In stocks, Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) said its quarterly results improved 15% and forecast stronger sales in the current quarter, as business in the U.S. improves.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and Gilead Sciences (nasdaq: GILD - news - people ) could beat Wall Street's expectations in the third quarter, according to two analysts using prescription databases to forecast company sales.
The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target, which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
In fact, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu raised his fourth-quarter iPhone sales forecast to 28 million from 26 million, with Mac sales now seen at 5.2 million, up from 5 million.
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The NAR existing-home sales forecast for the first quarter was about 5.2 million sales, gradually rising over the course of 2011 and into 2012.
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The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
Deere affirmed its earnings forecast but projected equipment sales to grow 5%, not the earlier forecast of 6%.
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During a conference call last December, he also announced a cut in 2011 sales forecast.
As a result, Wu lowered his fourth-quarter iPad sales forecast to 13.5 million from 15 million.
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Toyota spokesman Tomomi Imai says the company is unlikely to meet its sales forecast this year.
But he also cut his forecast for iPhone sales for the June and September quarters.
This means putting together a sales forecast and a budget, as well as two to five strategic objectives.
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Ford is sticking to its 12.3 million sales forecast for 2010, he added.
The world's largest maker of computer chips, Intel, has cut its three-month sales forecast and withdrawn its full-year predictions.
While we have revised our forecast for global notebook and netbooks sales, we still forecast slow growth in the future.
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This would add 6% to our global unit sales forecast for the iPhone 4 (61 million iPhones instead of 58 million).
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