Looking ahead, CEO Bill McCracken foresees difficult growth in the quarter ahead as current sluggish sales trends continue.
It turns out that, in addition to sluggish sales in America, the 3D TV market might be shrinking.
In November, however, Negroponte blamed Intel for sluggish sales of XO laptops and demanded that the company stop selling Classmate.
However, the earnings were down from the prior-year earnings by 19.7% due to sluggish sales and weak margins in hog production business.
You can see margins widening here, even amid sluggish sales.
Morgan Asset Management, for example, lost a high-end apartment building in the Chinese city of Dalian to foreclosure last summer after sluggish sales put the firm in violation of loan covenants.
While sluggish sales are bad news for the auto and machinery industries, they are good news for inflation, which has been climbing steadily since August, 2009, reaching 5.5 percent in May, its highest level in three years.
With hundreds of thousands of MacBook Airs sold every quarter last year, and an unprecedented (though unspecified) number of MacBook Pros being sold right now, it seems unlikely that the economy is solely to blame for the sluggish sales of Windows PCs.
"Sluggish sales and tight credit controls have forced small enterprises to reduce new construction since the start of the second half of 2012, " Tan Huajie, Vanke's board secretary, said at a news conference Wednesday, adding that he expects there may be insufficient new housing supply in the coming year.
Other units also struggled during the quarter, with weakness in power adapters leading accessory sales down 6%, while sluggish battery sales had the power platform category up just 1%.
The last may come as a surprise, given the daily announcements of sluggish consumer sales.
Disney also cut its earnings forecast for 2003, blaming sluggish retail sales and a downturn in tourism.
But it does mean that we should be looking a little askance at those claiming that sluggish hardware sales are as a result of a Windows 8 failure.
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Shahid left Calvin Klein in 1992 amid sluggish denim sales, and landed at then-fledgling Banana Republic and tapped Weber to shoot a campaign to update the retailer's safari image.
Strong demand from business customers and robust XBox sales more than offset sluggish consumer PC demand, propelling Microsoft past earnings and sales estimates for the quarter ending in June, the company said Thursday.
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We would be surprised to see the market continue to reward HOG with a premium price-to-sales multiple in this environment with sales still sluggish.
Meanwhile, Pier 1 Imports (nyse: PIR - news - people ) warned of sluggish same-store sales in December and said it would miss Wall Street expectations for the quarter.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).
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Sharp said sales of LCD TVs "fell drastically" on a year ago, mainly as a result of "sluggish demand in Japan and a sales decline in China, owing to worsening Japan-China relations".
Though the new look helped boost volumes by 40% during the first six months, sales then turned sluggish.
However, the firm said that sales would remain sluggish, likely to grow only in the low single-digits during 2013.
Food sales have been sluggish, and operating margins have fallen as a result of the extra space and staff needed for these services.
Sales are still sluggish in Germany, France and Italy, but publishers hope that things will improve once Europe's single currency moves from the preparation into the implementation stage.
Gasoline prices could spike high enough this summer to significantly rattle consumer confidence and further depress an already sluggish U.S. home sales market.
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Overall sales of Windows Phone remain sluggish, even if they are picking up.
But performance in Europe was "sluggish", the company said, with sales up 0.8%.
Global sales of personal computers have been sluggish this year as firms and households put off new purchases in the uncertain economic climate.
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