But if the firm is still imprisoned in the assumptions of shareholder capitalism, then the sales unit focused on noble customer purpose will be operating like an oasis in an unfriendly desert.
The battery and car manufacturer, backed by United States billionaire Warren Buffett, plans to cut the workforce at the sales unit to 800 from 2, 600, according to a post from an unidentified laid-off employee on the Weibo.com microblogging site.
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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.
Average HDD unit sales growths have been 14-15% annually over many years although this year and in 2008 and 2009 general financial issues for consumers, and in 2011 the impact of tablet computers on HDD sales have slowed unit growth to lower levels.
The higher estimates, he writes, reflect stronger-than-expected iPhone sales: he now expects unit sales of 18 million in the quarter, up from 16 million.
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But they also have the highest sales per unit area of any U.S. retailer, double that of Tiffany.
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After a year of regrouping in which sales and unit-count were essentially flat, CKE rebounded modestly in the past year, its IPO filing shows.
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Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
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As highlighted in earlier article, iPhone market share could reach 4.5% in 2010 (implying 58 million iPhones sold in 2010) if the company were able to grow unit sales in line with 2009 quarterly iPhone unit growth rates.
As measured by Nielsen SoundScan, overall music sales reached an another all-time high, with unit sales increasing 3.1% over last year.
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First quarter smartphone sales rose 8 percent over the prior quarter, while unit sales of handsets fell 1 percent, according to NPD.
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Thus there is a base to how low HDD sales will probably go and with a recovering economy the unit sales growth will increase again.
Auto sales would decline, from the strong 14 million-unit sales pace expected in the baseline case to 13.6 million this year and 12.9 million in 2013.
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The latter generates more profit on the sales revenue, again if enough units are sold (and unit sales do not decline too much due to increased prices).
But if Microsoft can build up the sales of the Surface Pro in 2013 and reach four to five million unit sales a year, they will have a healthy income stream from their Surface range.
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Percentage sales attributed to 3D TVs and LED TVs increased quarter-on-quarter with unit sales growing in most regions.
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The regular Escape saw 167, 678 American unit sales last year, but a 15, 000- to 25, 000-unit target sounds more appropriate for a hybrid.
The result: Sales of the satellite-enabled gizmos are up more than 214%, and unit sales have increased more than 488%, according to NPD.
But though digital sales may be up, combined digital and physical sales of PC games were down 21% in the first half of the year, and unit sales were down 14% compared to the same period last year.
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Instead, payroll at Sony's dizzying 1, 080 subsidiaries is up 2.3%, despite slumping sales (the company blames acute parts shortages and higher unit-sales volumes).
Unit sales of fridges and freezers have averaged about 9% growth a year since 1997.
Better yet, total revenues from DSPs are expected to grow along with unit sales.
Unit sales of refrigerators and freezers have averaged about 9% growth a year since 1997.
AutoNation, one of the largest auto dealers, reported new vehicle unit sales rose 22% to 19, 283.
The company's goal is 800, 000 unit sales by 2018 (2010 sales were about a quarter-million).
The worst dropoff hit German-owned DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX), whose unit sales fell 16% to 160, 680.
That is very good news, especially when you combine those higher prices with higher unit sales.
The Xbox 360 was the strongest hardware platform in the quarter in terms of unit sales.
Apple recorded iPad 2 unit sales of close to 1 million in the very first week.
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