In my career as a retailer, or as an analyst, I have never seen such a sharp drop in sales in just one year.
Fiat has warned in the past it may have to shut one its five Italian plants and that sales in its home country - one of the worst affected by the eurozone's economic crisis - were down to levels seen 40 years ago.
Sales of Coca-Cola's fizzy drinks grew by only 2% last year, with Fanta, recording 6% growth in sales, one of the strongest performers.
And, crucially, you pay your corporation tax, on all of your EU wide sales, in that one country where that one single corporation is.
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Talking about global unit sales is important in one sense, but if you want to understand the evolution of ecosystems, addressable markets for developers and indeed addressable markets for manufacturers, you need to look on a more local level.
Memo to Big Entertainment: In case you missed this in business school, rule number one in sales is try not to induce nausea on the part of your prospective sales targets.
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With gigantic hoards of cash at their disposal they are buying distressed properties, mostly those in foreclosure or through lender facilitated short sales, one at a time and in bulk where they can.
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The recovery in auto sales is one more sign the U.S. economy is picking up.
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The auto industry is coming off its best year for sales in five years, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak manufacturing sector.
For schools belonging to a BCS conference and who also have profitable football programs, you might earn that much in beer sales from one fall Saturday afternoon.
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Rebecca Lindland, the director of research at IHS Automotive, says that while there will certainly be a short-term decline in sales (no one shopped for cars this week), many consumers will need to buy replacement vehicles for the ones totaled in the flood.
Investors mulling retail stocks have well-established metrics to look at, among them inventory turnover (cost of sales divided by inventory), same-store-sales growth (the change in sales for stores open at least one year) and sales per square foot.
According to a study conducted by the research company Experian Automotive, a one-dollar variation in gasoline prices can be expected to account for just a 0.7 difference in small car sales at the one end of the new-vehicle spectrum and a 0.5 percent difference in full-size pickup truck sales at the other.
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If we start seeing a recovery in such things as auto sales, one can expect much of the new demand to be meant in efficient, largely foreign owned factories that have been gearing up across the Southeast.
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This month, after Starbucks announced that the growth in sales at stores open at least one year had declined to 7% from 12% in the previous comparison, the stock dropped 7%.
This number calculates the change in sales for locations opened one year or longer.
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Vertex reports that nationally the average sales tax bite rose in just one year by a ninth.
As it repairs its supply chain, Toyota aims to take its China sales north of one million in 2012.
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Now there are between five and eight sales events per day, including sales in which interior designers offer one-of-a-kind pieces.
When a nation loses sales to a foreign competitor in one line of work, that merely shifts its area of comparative advantage.
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Another company edict was that no one in sales could take a vacation in the last month of each quarter, when deals typically close.
But Lebret, 45, whose U.S. tour began seven years ago and has bracketed a spell opening the Far East sales office in Tokyo, is one example of Mouton's worldliness.
The best they seem to do these days is locate a product on a shelf and even within the past two weeks I had to point one sales rep in the right direction because I knew their store better than they did.
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It pitted divisions against one another in pushing CSG to devote more sales staff to selling one unit's wares over another's.
In hopes that it might stimulate stagnant PC sales in Japan, Dell is even selling the XPS One at retail in Bic Camera stores.
Chowdhry estimated that Microsoft lost one in five sales on the Surface RT because of the ARM (NASDAQ: ARMH) chipset.
Once this works properly for Amazon, the one million in sales cutoff should be dropped to 500, 000 and then to progressively lower amounts.
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Ford last week announced it would close two plants in the UK and one in Belgium following a sharp fall in sales in the region.
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