Then it was famous for its brains, its risk-taking, its focus on derivatives, and its aggressive, sales-driven culture.
Too often Western multinationals mistake hiring a sales-driven manager when the country market and organization requires a top leader.
Like all sales-driven organizations, Paramount needs to zero in quickly on the right executives, so forget about mass mailings.
Kellogg's fourth-quarter earnings rose 23% as the cereal maker posted stronger-than-expected sales growth driven largely by higher prices.
Also betting big on sin-driven sales, Dollar General has been rolling out wine and beer to more stores.
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In some lawsuits, investors argue that Phoenix's managers had encouraged investor-driven sales to boost revenue and their own compensation.
Its search-driven sales rose 30% and it doubled the number of keywords it manages to 40, 000 in six months.
Meanwhile, full-year sales of heavy-duty trucks, which are driven principally by industrial production, construction and infrastructure spending, are only expected to reach 700, 000 to 750, 000 units this year, down 15 percent to 20 percent from 2011.
The firm has been seeing double-digit annual sales growth in North America, driven by interest from do-it-yourself chains and insulating commercial buildings, and expects this growth to continue.
Sustainable growth also meant growth that was driven by sales--not one-time gains or cost-cutting measures.
There are too many sales in markets that are affordable to first-time buyers, driven by foreclosures and short sales, and too few sales in expensive parts of town thanks to a lack of financing and the impression that prices are coming down.
He said during the real-estate boom, sales were driven up by "artful credit conditions, but now with tight credit, "prices are more real.
In the power systems business that manufactures and sells a variety of engines and diesel-electric locomotives, sales were driven by petroleum and rail applications.
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For example, the high cigarette taxes that New York has imposed to discourage smoking while filling government coffers have instead driven cigarette sales underground -- as entrepreneurs buy untaxed cartons from Native American shops and other outlets, then sell them cheaply on the street.
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Comparable-store sales were up 9% driven by a 6% gain in customer traffic.
More important, November sales are being driven mostly by retail-buying customers and ones coming into dealerships not lured by rich incentives.
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Growth was driven by the sales ramp-up of ExpressCards, which are small cards that allows certain wireless devices to roam on networks in different countries.
Edinburgh-based Wolfson, which specialises in audio parts for consumer electronic products, said sales were driven by a strong performances from its audio hubs and micro-electro-mechanical systems (Mems) microphone product lines.
Handset shipments rose more than 20 percent quarter-on-quarter, driven by growth in the smartphone segment where sales were up more than 40 percent on-quarter and 300 percent year-on-year.
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New products translate quickly into higher sales figures, as do technological and performance-driven upgrades.
They offer data-driven services to increase product sales online.
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He spends the morning catching up on Renault business and then climbs into his black chauffeur-driven Vel Satis (a sales disappointment for Renault in Europe) for the 30-minute drive to the carmaker's technical center for some product-review sessions.
The manager will need to set up firewalls around the sales unit to prevent it being infected by money-driven behavior, unless and until the firm as a whole transitions to customer capitalism and the radical management needed to support it.
Same-store sales should benefit from continued menu upgrades, driven by its Smart Eating initiative.
He thinks margins will stabilize in the 2012 second half and trend higher in 2013, driven by gross margin upside driven by digital, third-party sales and Amazon Web Services revenue, and from fulfillment productivity gains due to recently opened fulfillment centers.
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Global unit sales increased to 90 percent of the pre-2009 level, driven largely by growth in emerging markets.
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It also helps, greatly in fact, to have non-sales elements to the Facebook page or wherever you have driven your stake in the social media ground.
While future orders from Western Europe fell by 5%, we think this mainly reflects difficult y-o-y comparisons as the sales in the prior year were driven by Euro Champs and the Olympics.
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Inditex said first-half profit rose 32%, driven by online sales and new stores in Asia.
The fall in residential sales in this quarter is largely considered to be short-term, driven by higher gas prices and food prices.
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