Barton wants to double engine sales by 2005, implying a 12% growth rate.
Even after completing the acquisition of Wyeth, drug sales are the undeniable engine of revenue growth.
The company expected same store sales in China, its growth engine, to take a 25% tumble.
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The international division clearly is Wal-Mart's growth engine, now that sales at U.S. stores open at least a year have fallen for five consecutive quarters.
In the press release, the company explained it managed to increase sales volume in both their machinery and engine divisions, as took advantage of favorable price realization, as developing economies, where recessions were less severe, took deliveries to record highs.
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Under Barton's predecessor, Donald Fites, Cat squeezed its working capital in the machinery and engine businesses down to 10% of sales from 25% in 1991.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
Schmidt's fans are search-engine marketers, Web designers and Internet sales optimizers who have collectively come from nowhere to billions in revenue in a few short years, all thanks to the search businesses of Google , Yahoo!
Thankfully, ticket search engine site SeatGeek compiled and aggregated Olympic ticket sales data and found what people are paying for Olympic tickets.
As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.
Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
Five months ago, a large geographically focused opportunity presented itself, and we decided to rethink our entire approach to the sales process from top to bottom, including the use of search engine marketing (SEM).
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This week's planned sales of shares in companies such as AltaVista, an Internet search-engine, and Yupi Internet, a Spanish-language website, were postponed.
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The motorcycle maker dazzled Wall Street today by announcing record third-quarter sales and profits, a results some analysts attributed to a more powerful new engine the company installed into several of its models.
Some studies indicate it takes more than five times as long to sell a hybrid than a traditional internal combustion engine model, which may explain one of the many reasons why hybrid sales are not growing above 3.5% of the market.
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The Cupertino, Calif. company benefits from having the iPad as an engine, from more companies allowing employees to choose their own work gadgets and from the fact that iPad sales have not cannibalized purchases of its Mac computers, says Reitzes.
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