Straight foreign bonds aren't carried in inventory by big retail firms like A.G.
In addition, airlines don't manage their inventory as actively on weekends, so if cheap seats sell on some flights, prices automatically jump higher.
Whether it's the US or worldwide, don't assume that inventory clearances ahead of Windows 8 were the only factors at work, though.
During the conference call management said the high inventory was the result of preparation for a seasonally strong quarter, but Reiner pointed out that it didn't explain why inventory was still much higher compared with previous corresponding quarters.
Unlike other fanmakers, Ridings doesn't force showrooms to stock up on inventory they don't need.
For one, getting advertisters to commit to buys once a year doesn't make much sense for the TV industry, and it certainly doesn't work for the Internet, which doesn't have the same inventory constraints.
High taxes and inventory haven't stopped Garmin from holding to its 2008 guidance, though the news has sent investors running.
It can become potentially problematic because companies can get stuck with older inventory that won't sell, resulting in a write-off.
Express tried letting a big distributor (which Pham won't identify) manage its component inventory on-site but eventually dropped the service because it figured it could manage on its own.
Specialists are supposed to make orderly markets in stocks by matching buy and sell orders, dipping into their own firms' capital when buyers can't be matched and selling firm inventory when there are too many buyers.
While it's a juggernaut, Facebook isn't immune from the problem of expanding inventory.
In general, he says, there is less overhead for service-based businesses, which don't require large outlays for equipment and inventory.
And workers have been hired again to make those cars, to replace that inventory like they haven't in quite some time.
Until 1998 the company (then called Consolidated Stores) didn't have a computerized system to track inventory, much less how quickly the items were moving.
Inventory, which couldn't be correctly forecast, piled up dangerously high.
"I knew one guy who would actually pay rent to use half of another guy's locker because his locker wasn't large enough to store all his inventory, " he says.
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Nissan doesn't want to keep a lot of inventory on hand, so it often gives suppliers as little as 90 minutes' notice of which vehicles will be coming down the line.
Toys "R" Us, Mattel's largest customer and the biggest Barbie retailer, slashed inventory, but that wasn't the whole story.
Andy Firoved, CEO of Homeowner's Toolbox, a housing finance company, says there's a lack of noncontingent inventory, or housing that isn't tied up by short sales and foreclosures.
She was low on inventory, had no employees and wasn't sure how the national weekly's readers would react.
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With no recovery in industrial earning power in sight and technology in the throes of its inventory correction, corporate earnings just aren't going up this year.
Dell had the inventory problem whipped--it doesn't build anything until it has an order in hand--but its phone-based sales staff wasn't very good at selling to first-time buyers.
This has some industry observers excited about how Google will help sell radio advertising, particularly in moving so-called "remnant inventory, " those spots which aren't purchased in advance and are usually sold at steep discounts at the last minute or simply go unsold.
But production wasn't interrupted, because Flex keeps two weeks of Xbox parts inventory at or near its Guadalajara site, and parts suppliers nearby keep another two to four weeks of inventory on hand.
The biggest threat is a large shadow inventory of unsold homes, homes which owners won't put on the market because they are underwater, homes that will be foreclosed eventually and homes owned by lenders.
Of course, Americans may confound skeptics again by continuing to shop, and many economists don't think stronger growth recently can be dismissed as a mere quirk of the inventory cycle.
It uncovered customer payments diverted to Super American Tissue, as well as inventory that should have been written down and damaged equipment that couldn't operate at break-even volume levels.
Dealers don't have to spend hours haggling their way to a profit, and they can turn over inventory faster.
He asks: Shouldn't there be a way to give credit to store owners who get their suppliers to finance their inventory?
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