Amazon experienced an impressive 36% increase in sales over the same period last year, thanks in good part to its acquisition of Zappos and hot sales of its Kindle e-reader.
With Amazon citing hot sales of items such as the Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye and Nintendo Wii, maybe Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos should have described it as its geekiest, instead.
Today that is turning into a game of hot-potato between sales, marketing, and now Finance.
If you really need to search for a parking space, sales are hot.
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Mr Balls drew MPs' attention to previous U-turns on changes to the rules governing tax relief on charitable giving, and imposing VAT on static caravan sales and hot takeaway food.
Yogurt is hot, and energy drink sales have been booming, so it seemed like a good bet by General Mills to try to bridge the categories with the launch of the Yoplait Vivant line, which featured fruit flavors along with tea and B vitamins.
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And while Steve Jobs has proved he can build a hot handset, with iPhone sales hitting the one-million mark this week, less than three months after its introduction on June 29--spending billions on a wireless network would leave Apple without an exit strategy if the iPhone stalls.
Hot on the heels of retail sales was a disappointing German labor report.
Spain and UK combined made up as much as 40% of the handset sales growth during the hot years of 2005-2007.
Oh, and Sales Spider recently launched its Hot Deals section.
U.S. sales of the once-hot new compact, Cruze, cooled off in June, falling by 24 percent compared with a year earlier, and are down by 7 percent for the year to date.
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He accepts that last year's hot UK summer and the football World Cup did sales no harm.
The company has certainly been hot: On the heels of its first year of sales in 2009, it grabbed 12.6% share of the U.S. market for inverters in the first quarter of this year.
Moreover the halo effect from the hot-selling media players has led to a surge in sales of Apple desktop and laptop computers that has made Apple a player in the computer market once again.
On one end of the spectrum, a ball player can easily reach the zenith of his profession financially while an entry level position in ticket sales with a Single A ball club is a hot commodity for countless job seekers.
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Goldilocks weather - neither too hot, nor too stormy - has helped baker Greggs trumpet record sales growth.
Thus we get the ins and outs of what particular promotions might do to that critical number, the year-over-year of same-store sales, or whether a new menu item such as hot breakfasts might induce patrons to spend even more.
The first half of 2003, ahead of the hot summer, brought no relief, with year-on-year sales off 7% and operating profit and net income down 10% and 34% respectively.
And the damage was even greater in the once-hot high-technology sector, which has also been discouraged by a poor sales forecast for leading computer manufacturer Dell.
And Ritchie, who held his first auction in Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, in 1963, has been compounding gross auction sales at 15% annually for 20 years.
Hot Topic, in the middle of a brand restructure, reported a softer sales decrease than expected with a 5% drop, compared with an expected 6% decrease in same-store sales.
Yet the hot food v. cold food line is common in many U.S. sales tax laws.
Other new models, such as the Freestyle, Mercury Montego--and even the hot-selling Ford Mustang--haven't been enough to revive Ford sales.
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The doubters are about to see why Alexa is hot: It offers a great market research tool and a sweet way to steal sales.
The company founded by Bill Gates will be more than 2 years late to the red hot tablet market, which, according to reports, is beginning to cannibalize PC sales, and will be facing increased competition from later-generation products.
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Weeks before the latest measures to cool the red-hot market, Mr. Li sold 360 hotel rooms to eager investors, even though such sales are legally murky.
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