The long-term sales potential is enormous, because Xolair will need to be taken chronically, year after year after year, doctors say.
But Erbitux has a second effect as well, one that may bode well for its long-term sales prospects if it pans out.
Limiting the iPod to Apple users only limits its long-term sales potential.
"Drug companies will be disappointed in their long-term sales, " she says.
At BrandMixer, we have seen phrase and adjective tag clouds yield a stronger correlation to increasing long-term product sales vs. a popular meme on Twitter.
On a brighter note, sales of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology equipment continued gains while revenue from overseas sales of notebook PCs improved.
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The important thing for the long term though is not sales but profits.
Yet although the long-term prospects for sales growth look excellent overall, the car industry has a problem: it needs to shrink dramatically.
Unfortunately, Best Buy leadership confused short-term sales re-allocation with long-term trends.
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Over the long-term, Larkin sees sales and earnings continuing to increase from market share gains, acquisitions, and an expected consolidation of the metals service center industry.
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Edward Lampert took Sears ( SHLD) into the dressing room more than a year ago, hoping to change its long-term trend of declining sales with a new vision for the venerable retailer.
While Iomega has done a good job of building its Zip disk brand over the past several years, it made a critical error when it reduced the prices on the drive and pinned its hopes for a long-term revenue stream on sales of disks.
However, good sales executives not only know how to sell the company and its long-term prospects, but also how to convince sales people that they can be even more successful, make more money and boost their career coming to work for them.
Weinstein says he has doubts about Cypher's ability to make up for sagging drug sales over the long term.
Penney unveiled its new long-term strategy to improve declining sales revenues and profits.
For the long term, it hopes to achieve sales growth through higher traffic, a shift towards premium products and menu price increases.
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But it gains sales over the long term because dealers won't alienate consumers by using the hard sell to push slow-selling vehicles to ambivalent shoppers.
Bradshaw says Ford is a good long-term buy now as auto sales could ramp up back to historical levels after dropping off sharply during the financial crisis and recession.
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We analyzed 26 industries (excluding trading companies) of the Global 2000 and scored each company on long-term and short-term sales growth, profit growth, return on capital and total return to shareholders.
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Let them be who they are, let them act altruistically to help each other with no specter of being monitored by a grammar coach, and people who are like them will be more influenced and help your sales even more long term.
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Secondly, Halifax has extended its reach in the long-term savings market by acquiring the sales force and unit-linked business of Equitable Life, the troubled mutual life insurer.
We are patient long term investors and as long as we continue to see progress in new car sales in the United States, we think the stock is a call on the U.S. auto industry.
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Thorntons reported a healthy rebound in overall sales, but the long-term decline at its own stores continued.
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Drugs firms currently lose billions of dollars in sales from patients on long-term prescriptions who do not take their pills.
Tying transparency to sales gives it a long-term business purpose.
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The choice to think long-term and build its user links through sales of Kindle Fire at cost has limited short-term profits, but every action Amazon has taken to grow has paid off handsomely because they accelerate the natural trends and position Amazon as the leader.
While the tax hikes might boost sales in the short term, small business owners fear that they will lose sales in the long run.
Over the long term, the greatest risk to bondholders is that sales of cigarettes could collapse.
Data from the National Association of Realtors, however, shows that sales have been improving in the long term, growing by 11% since last year.
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