The Mint also announced Thursday that with sufficient gold and silver on hand to meet anticipated coin demand, it will not allocate sales to dealers in early 2012, as has been the case for several years, due to unprecedented demand and a lack of bullion supply.
Sales to authorized dealers are expected to resume on or about the week of Jan. 28 after the U.S. Mint has replenished its inventory, it said in an email to authorized dealers.
In the first quarter, GMAC paid an average of 4.3% interest--up from 3.6% a year ago--on the billions of dollars it must borrow to finance vehicle sales to its dealers and customers.
So far, there have been fewer sales to foreigners than to local wheeler-dealers who arrange management buy-outs for their friends at big discounts.
The smaller Integra cars were tossed in to make sure the dealers had enough sales to survive in case the Legend bombed.
Both of these situations result in nice parts sales from our dealers to the end users.
In a survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 73% of gun dealers said sales to female customers had risen in 2011.
Art fairs are multiplying and stealing gallery sales to the point that some dealers are shutting their store fronts in favor of the fair circuit.
The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.
Manufacturers are scrambling to get detailed sales information from dealers because it's not easily available from the feds.
Federal background checks currently apply only to sales handled by licensed gun dealers.
James Press, who now runs all of Toyota's U.S. sales operations, visited Lexus dealers to apologize and to ask what Lexus could do to redeem itself.
Central banks can lend their gold reserves to bullion dealers who then lend them to producers to hedge future sales, but this typically yields only 1-2%, well below market interest rates.
But critics say that practice results in low-margin sometimes even unprofitable sales as dealers chase sales bonuses tied to volume-based targets.
Adesa offered 3 million of those vehicles for sale at 83 auction sites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and sold 2 million to dealers (the daily sales are open to licensed pros only).
Ford plans to increase its sales network by 680 dealers by 2015 from a total of 340 at the end of 2010, and most of those new spots will be in the western part of the country, Burela said.
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Amid weak car sales, Chrysler might have enough leverage to convince struggling dealers they have no other options.
Any small-town detective would think it ridiculous that he should team up with a bunch of narcotics dealers to ferret out illegal drug sales.
At, same time dealers ramped up incentives to increase sales.
After many months of moribund sales, this is a welcome trend to both manufacturers and dealers alike.
There, I also led an external sales division that marketed their managed products to outside broker-dealers and registered investment advisors.
Armed with distinct brands, Thor can sell more to several dealers in the same market without cannibalizing sales or angering dealers.
AutoNation, one of the largest auto dealers, reported new vehicle unit sales rose 22% to 19, 283.
Some dealers think that the recent surge in sales was due to fears of higher interest rates to come.
He quit last year as Compaq dealers rebelled at his plans to dramatically increase direct sales of PCs, the better to compete with Dell.
Currently, the system applies only to sales by the country's 55, 000 federally licensed firearms dealers.
This low-end user demand is forcing Caterpillar dealers to reduce their inventory levels, which is further impacting sales of the company.
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Those challenges were evident in 2007, when a gunman at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32, and Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine called for closing a loophole in the law allowing for private sales at gun shows without the same background check that licensed dealers are required to obtain.
Chrysler reported 100, 077 in sales, marked by Jeep Grand Cherokee sales, which were up 98% over last month, due to increased shipments to dealers.
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