Look, I think obviously you've seen the number revised down, I think largely based on inventory.
Unlike other fanmakers, Ridings doesn't force showrooms to stock up on inventory they don't need.
That cuts down on inventory and wasted factory space, and this, too, has been widely copied.
It will take on inventory risk and act as a troubleshooter for small firms.
At the same time, you might be spending more on inventory in anticipation of growth.
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She was low on inventory, had no employees and wasn't sure how the national weekly's readers would react.
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That impressive growth figure is likely to be revised downward as more complete figures on inventory levels are taken account of.
Retailers are expected to focus on inventory control, discounting, sales, and promotions.
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But for a company that has prided itself on inventory management (contracted out to an arm of Wal-Mart and others in the U.S.), this is a natural.
If sellers of wool start running low on inventory early in the morning because they are flooded with buyers, you can expect them to raise their prices by noon.
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On inventory at panel makers and further downstream: Our customers are taking more than what they are shipping out, he says, after exiting the quarter with very low inventories.
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We anticipate some will be needed during the 2006 hurricane season and then also FEMA keeps about 5, 000 trailers on inventory, just in case they're needed at any time.
And Karen I think can share with you a whole host of technical assistance programs that the SBA has tried to set up -- on inventory controls and marketing and a whole host of other issues.
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Meanwhile, retailers have generally placed their bets on holiday inventory, and it looks like those bets, too, are pretty conservative.
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The March MarketPulse report from CoreLogic examines the rise of institutional investors and the effects they are having on distressed inventory.
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Sure, sitting on excess inventory is a costly proposition.
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The Company received a letter from the Brown Rudnick law firm which said that the retailer had breached a covenant of a bond indenture agreement by granting a lien on its inventory, according to the complaint.
These resources make it easy for developers to generate ad based revenue by both simplifying the process for including ads in an app and creating a network to bid on mobile inventory at the exact moment when an impression is served.
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Li Ning is focused on cleaning up its inventory and Gome on boosting its online presence.
In China, on the other hand, inventory accumulation can go on for years before it negatively affects growth.
Unlike previous embedded YouTube players, which simply streamed videos, these new tools would allow users on other sites to search the YouTube inventory, comment on and rate videos, and even upload clips to YouTube's servers--essentially everything that users would have done on YouTube's site.
Once the copy is done, Connerty looks to buy leftover advertising inventory on the cheap.
Expect Google to push marketers to buy more ad inventory on its exchange, AdX.
It's worth it to us to sell that house and not have it on a foreclosure inventory.
Programmatic buying and selling of advertising inventory on computer exchanges provides an extra bit of devilish fun.
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Of course, AAPL could have been inflating the production numbers to ensure that they had enough inventory on hand.
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Having more inventory on hand means he could handle more jobs quickly without waiting for supplies to come in.
According to Scout Analytics, digital reduces advertising industry 47% and the rates on that smaller inventory is lower.
By contrast, streamlined computer manufacturers like Dell Computer try to keep only about ten days' worth of inventory on hand.
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