Companies including GM and Ford have cut back on operations in Europe to off-set sales declines.
More interestingly, since the downturn, a handful of homes have set sales records.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin', released in February 2003, immediately set sales records.
Cyber Monday was the busiest shopping day last year and is expected to set sales trend for online retailers this holiday season.
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Call of Duty is the obvious example, as the game changes about 5% of the experience with each new annual release, yet still manages to set sales records each time.
Even as the company grew, we still set our sales goals by the hour.
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Chick-fil-A said it set a sales record Wednesday but declined to release the numbers.
Will Young from Pop Idol set record sales in the UK last February with his first single.
In the future, the village will try food processing and maybe set up sales outlets in Beijing and Tianjin.
Online fashion retailer Asos has bucked the gloomy retail trend with a "robust" set of sales figures for the first half.
Upfront advertising is when advertisers buy their advertising time at the start of a season or a set advertising sales period.
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Their next set of sales figures - covering the whole of the second half of 2012 - is expected in February.
Saturn buyers adore the no-haggle dealerships, and Saab's new 9-3 sport sedan and convertible helped it set a sales record last year.
This is the first set of sales figures for the Herald and the Sunday Herald since a change in the way they are announced.
"She is likely to set the sales standard by which everyone will be judged for the rest of the year in the run-up to Christmas, " he added.
Others may look at a more comprehensive monthly economic data set detailing sales of various local industries from past years to the event-week or event-month(s) in question.
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The Industry Standard, founded in 1997, set ad sales records.
With its rough-around-the-edges aesthetic, however, he didn't expect it to catch on very fast and, in the early days of development, set a sales target of 10, 000 units within his lifetime.
Just one more day figuring out a problem at the keyboard or under the ventilating hood, making another set of sales calls, teaching another roomful of people about the latest software upgrades.
There have been whispers for months now that the annual Call of Duty title this year would in fact be Black Ops 2, a sequel to the highly popular Treyarch title in 2010 that set every sales record imaginable at the time.
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Furthermore, those retail figures do not include Apple stores, where droves of customers flock to purchase their iPods, and more importantly, because that's launch week and any new device (especially one so hyped as the Zune) will almost always set its sales records during its week of launch.
Avocado farmers have formed an export company and set up a sales office in Paris.
The Honda Insight set a March sales record with 2, 782 units sold, up 62.2 percent from last year.
One of the bills, sponsored by Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), would set up a sales tax compact involving at least 20 states.
Given a set of aggressive sales targets, the company had to move fast and tackle selling problems with entirely new ways of thinking.
The meltdown of the financial industry--the tech industry's biggest customers--is set to hit sales of everything from software to data center switches like a hammer.
Revenue and ticket sales set records right through this years' controversial home-run chase, in which so many frowned at steroid-suspect Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record.
"There's so much pent up demand, " said Mr. Munster, who himself has set a conservative sales estimate of 9 million iPhones via Verizon in the current year.
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