The end result: customers flocked to the new product, breaking previous sales records.
She had no previous sales experience but listed what areas she could be an asset based off of the job posting.
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Investors are clearly impressed, believing that the new iPhone will smash previous sales records as we head into the holiday season.
They hope to persuade online sellers to sign up in exchange for guarantees that they won't be held liable for not collecting taxes on previous sales.
Forty-seven companies reported orders and sales were roughly the same as the previous quarter, 39 said sales increased and eight reported sales were down compared to the previous quarter.
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In previous recessions toy sales held up reasonably well, as parents cut back elsewhere.
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Over the previous decade Oxxfords sales had dropped by a third as younger American businessmen flocked to Italian designers.
Still, Nokia managed to increase sales in China by about 20% over the previous quarter, banking on sales of just the high-end 920, 820 and the mid-end 620.
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported 1.1% increase in retail sales in September from the previous month and 8% increase in retail sales in Q3 2011 compared to the same period last year.
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In its first weekend of availability in the United States, Palm Pre broke Sprint's previous first-weekend sales records.
Declining Wii sales from previous years and an imminent Wii price drop means the timing is good for Nintendo.
If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 9%.
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 66%.
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But compared to the previous months, when sales nosedived 49% in September and 44% in October, this is a significant improvement.
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"Growth in household loans slowed notably from the previous quarter, while sales on credit saw a big fall amid sluggish consumption, " the bank said in a statement.
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Helping support stocks was a report from the Commerce Department that showed retail and food-service sales rose in April from the previous month, offsetting a big drop in sales at gas stations.
On Thursday, the SIA reported that global semiconductor sales rose 5.5% in August from the previous year, thanks to higher sales of personal computers and cellphones, but warned of a weak future.
The tally is more than four times the first-week sales of its previous album.
For Christie's alone, that represented a 75% increase in sales on the previous year.
It saw a 2.3% fall of like for like sales on the previous year.
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This could be due to reporting errors at the local level or not enough sales from the previous year to develop a reliable figure.
Following the experiences of the previous year, advance ticket sales were re-organized, ahead of the trade fair, date-specific ticketing was effectively extended and offered in advance sales.
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In the Asia region, despite the impact of the earthquake, we were able to maintain a similar level of vehicle sales as the previous year in countries led by Indonesia.
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Its sales in the UK were three times higher than its previous best performance for a first week of smartphone sales.
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While Nokia said it would meet or beat its first-quarter profits target, it also said sales would be slightly below its previous forecast of a decline of 6-10%, largely because of a big drop in sales of network equipment.
Highlighting the quarterly performance, the Telecommunications businesses recorded all-time high quarterly sales of 14.90 trillion won, up 37 percent from the previous year, with growth mainly driven by strong sales of Samsung's GALAXY smartphones.
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Previous reports included that new home sales unexpectedly fell 4.6% in February, the biggest monthly decline in two years.
Recent channel checks by Canaccord Genuity suggest sales have dramatically underperformed previous estimates, mainly because of supply constraints and limited support from carriers.
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