In the three months since the acquisition, general ticket sales and group sales are up 16% and 25%, respectively, over last season.
In the U.S., which accounts for about 80 percent of total group sales, same-store sales increased 9.2 percent for the holiday period.
Total group sales were up 4.6% for the year, but in its retail sales divisions - which exclude Halfords' car-servicing business line - they were down 5.3%.
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Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos' parent, Home Retail Group, said the strong sales meant the group's pre-tax profits were on course to beat forecasts.
The company had group sales of pounds Sterling 990.8m and underlying profits of 93.3m pounds last year.
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Volkswagen says its group sales hit a record high last year despite slowing sales in Western Europe.
Chatter is Benioff's strategy for getting inside the walls of a company, and spreading beyond the sales group.
The carmaker said total group sales in 2012 were 1.84 million vehicles, an increase of 10.6% on 2011.
Group sales were up 4.5% in the 14 weeks to 29 December, while in the UK like-for-like sales climbed 3.7%.
The childcare products retailer said total group sales in the 13 weeks to 12 January fell 7.4% from a year ago.
In the U.K., which accounts for about 20 percent of total group sales, same-store sales rose by 1.8 percent for the period.
Britvic, which makes and sells PepsiCo brands such as Pepsi and 7UP in Britain and Ireland, said total group sales volumes were down 1.6%.
Two years ago, Adrian Allen, group sales director of Technicut, which makes precision-cutting machine tools, decided to try to sell some machines to Boeing.
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That includes season tickets, individual game seats and group sales.
Niederauer will look over NYSE's cash equities operations, including institutional and member firm group sales and client services for both the exchange floor and the electronic network acquired in last year's merger with Archipelago Holdings.
Mr Marchionne believes that spinning off Fiat Industrial, which will include CNH, a producer of farming and construction equipment and Iveco, a truckmaker, will give those businesses, which currently account for 35% of group sales, greater visibility.
Though the company has lost several patent suits aimed at halting production of those pods, Chief Executive Jean-Marc Duvoisin says the competition is a positive for Nespresso, which represents roughly 5% of the Swiss food giant's group sales.
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Sales through the group's stores rose 18%, helped by 10% extra floor space, while sales at the Next Directory mail order service were ahead by 5%.
Sales in China of vehicles from VW Group subsidiary Lamborghini topped U.S. sales in 2011.
Avon is going further: having finally received permission to resume direct sales in February, the American cosmetics group has already recruited over 114, 000 sales agents.
China's largest auto group in terms of sales, and the other with FAW Group Corp.
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Some states exempt them from sales tax as food, others because cookie sales are tied to a nonprofit group.
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But then several chains--among them JC Penney's Internet group and sales force--repeatedly tried to persuade Levi to change its mind.
But which tools would make this group of sales reps successful?
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According to Luc Bardin, group chief sales and marketing officer of top-tier sponsor BP, the biggest benefit is the association with such a powerful brand.
The Carrier Network group contributed revenue of 160.3 billion yuan, the Consumer group recorded sales of 48.4 billion yuan and the Enterprise unit added another 11.5 billion yuan.
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