Employees are trained for up to four weeks before they hit the sales floor and, once they do, those employees are paid a combination of salary and bonuses to avoid an all-commission sales floor where their financial incentive might disrupt the customer experience.
And he estimates he's put in 60 hours a week to hit the kind of sales he's wanted.
But generic firms like Barr Labs (nyse: BRL - news - people) introduced copycats--and now branded Prozac has been hit with the largest sales erosion ever for a blockbuster drug.
The art market took a hit in the first quarter as sales volume fell 7% compared to 2012, according to market intelligence firm and auction platform artnet.
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Piecyk predicts Apple will have another record setting quarter in sales for the company and close to an 80% increase in iPhone sales from the September period, when sales were hit by customers held off in anticipation of the new phone.
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It noted that the sales of those vehicles hit 488, 000 in 2012 and represented 3.2% of the passenger car sales in the U.S. That number fell short of the expectations by carmakers and their suppliers, including lithium-ion battery makers.
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Britain's troubled housing market hit sales of the sturdy oven hard, the company's chief executive William McGrath told CNN.
If vehicles sales hit the upper estimate provided by Ford, our subscriber growth estimates could turn out to be conservative.
So I hit the after-Christmas sales pretty hard with my friend Sandra.
Economic news was better than most expected, as existing home sales hit the highest level in almost a year, manufacturing data showed strong growth, and jobless claims declined sharply.
If the amyloid theory is right, anti-amyloid drugs are still highly unlikely to be a cure. (One reassuring possibility is that the bad Eli Lilly result was due to a drug toxicity, not its effect on amyloid.) Only a handful of the drugs that hit the market early will snag most of the sales, if things go the way they usually do.
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The adverse publicity has hit sales in America, which plummeted by 16% in January compared with the year before.
The Semiconductor unit also saw sales hit 9.48 trillion won during the June-to-September period, after posting 9.16 trillion won in the second quarter.
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The Titanium Powerbook was an official hit right out of the box, and sales of the iBook more than tripled from its second fiscal quarter to its third.
Production was up 9% and exports 8%, despite the fact that separate data on Wednesday showed car sales in the EU hit a 17-year low last year.
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Earnings fell 2.1% in the fourth quarter as weak sales continued, however the hit was smaller than the company expected, leading it to raise its projections for the coming year and lending some spunk to the stock Thursday.
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The bad weather also hit the traditional post-Christmas sales with Belfast city centre shops reporting a 50% fall off in trade.
As Americans kick the smoking habit, investors in these securities may take the hit as dwindling cigarette sales cause payments to fall off a cliff.
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Industrial conglomerate United Technologies flirted with all-time highs on Wednesday after posting strong earnings and announcing sales would hit the top end of its guidance by the end of the year.
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This is especially bad news for Fiat, which is among the worst hit by the economic crisis in Europe, where car sales are down 6.6 percent so far this year.
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The firm, which is heavily dependent on US sales, has been hit by the weak dollar, and its vehicles have performed poorly in quality surveys.
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The hardest hit major market: The U.S., where sales of footwear, apparel and equipment dropped 4%, compared to a 1% decline in Europe and a 1% increase in Asia.
The auto sector added as well, with firms like Toyota, Ford, and General Motors seeing sales hit their highest values since the financial crisis in the first few months of 2013.
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The argument goes that even though Vertex is going to sell a ton of telaprevir over the next few years, sales could crater when even newer drugs hit the market and completely change things again--hence the excitement about both Zymogenetics and Idenix.
Mr. Cecchi also expects more distressed assets, including bank loan sales, to hit the market in 2013.
One of the first sales we hit this year was a good one.
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Although states get little revenue from property taxes, the subprime bust has hit sales-tax revenue as fewer people buy durables for new homes, and unemployment in construction cuts into income-tax receipts.
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Back in the U.S., pending home sales hit a three-year high in March, data released by the National Association of Realtors showed.
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European car manufacturers was the sector worst hit thanks the double whammy of disappointing U.S. auto sales data for the month of December 2007.
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