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JOHN MURPHY Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU Holiday sales have become a vital component of the retail sales cycle for millions of small business...
GAIL GOODMAN Put the total sales of Palm ever and the total sales of Psion ever all together and you get a good w...
DAVID POTTER We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG Far less than 1 percent of electronics sales is done online.
CHRISTOPHER PAYNE
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When... MARK ZANDI We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES In 2001, our overseas sales overtook domestic sales. Today, they account for 53 percent of our total...
KEIICHIRO AKAHOSHI Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,...
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NEIL MAWSTON I think its a brilliant strategy. Make small improvements that will boost sales even 4 to 5 percent ...
HOWARD DAVIDOWITZ The Middle East is only around 0.2 percent of our turnover, so it's really a very small part of our ...
CHARLOTTE SIMONSEN We expect DVDs to account for nearly 80 percent of total rental sales at the fiscal year's end in Ma...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA ICD sales were up 30 percent, so they gained about a point of market share from Guidant,
JEFF JONAS Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4...
LORA HO It became a drug which was difficult to commercialize, ... We sat there with a drug in which we had ...
FRANZ HUMER On its own, a comp-store inventory increase of 2-to-5 percent is no big deal. But when you've got co...
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DALE FORD
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DAVID LUI We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Abercrombie met or was very close to meeting its sales force benchmark for Asians.
JACK LEE Best Buy is the best of breed in the consumer electronics space right now. Circuit City's problems a...
DONALD TROTT I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company,...
ROSE GEORGE 2005 was a relatively good price year for a number of commodities, both in California and nationwide...
DAN SUMNER Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end o...
JEFFREY KLINEFELTER [Not everyone is optimistic about hybrids.] Every manufacturer will have one or two hybrid vehicles ...
HELMUT PANKE Autonomy is getting half of its sales in the U.S., has laid out a solid strategy with original equip...
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MARTIN ELLIS
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through Fe...
GARY BARHAM With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales,...
JO ANN EMERSON We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup i...
DOMINIC WHITE March sales definitely exceeded all expectations and for the first time ever, total sales including ...
BRAND PRETORIUS So far in August we are experiencing a continuation of July's difficult sales trends.
HEIDI KUNZ We actually are pegging LCD-TV sales at about 27 percent of the global market in 2007.
DAVID NARANJO Consider this: Apple says its stores are now making more than $1 billion in sales per quarter. Just ...
LEANDER KAHNEY Sales at the 2006 Miami show exceeded our company's all-time performance by 40 percent. We attribute...
DAVID KNIGHT Streamlining our sales organization will lead to 700 job cuts among our in- house sales staff. This ...
GERHARD RUPPRECHT
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office. MAE WEST October was the seventh month in a row of higher Ford sales to individual retail customers. This Oct...
BOB REWEY As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contri...
KEIICHIRO AKAHOSHI We have low interest rates and a real estate sales boom that signals to builders and developers that...
ERIK KNODER A lot of patients here don't have transportation, so its very difficult for them to walk over there ...
DR. LEONOR ORDONEZ GM's retail market share is off to a slow start, but should finish the month somewhat higher than it...
BOB SCHNORBUS In the past, we believe Apple's shares have presented buying opportunities when its sales are constr...
BENJAMIN REITZES Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales.
BRENDA RIOS Victor is a dynamic, results-oriented sales executive with more than 20 years of experience in the h...
CHAND VYAS The momentum continues to steady for its sales, and we now expect 'Living History ' to be one of the...
CAROLYN BROWN Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ Direct selling offers huge potential for sales as a small business owner or entrepreneur. BusinessTV...
RUTH KING If you have more complexity within your sales plan, a homegrown solution becomes difficult. So many ...
BOB CONLIN
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would ... COLM TOIBIN Despite the slippage in home sales there is no evidence of any nationwide softening of home prices, ...
JOHN LONSKI We think the company is facing a challenging environment in which both of its major competitors -- K...
ROBERT CAMPAGNINO The sales people can spend 100 percent of their time with customers on the sales floor. This system ...
DEBORAH WEINSWIG Microsoft's biggest problem is its [sales] channel.
BRUCE RICHARDSON [Sales of SUVs especially] have been taking it on the chin, ... That phenomenon has pretty much run ...
JOE PHILLIPPI We have a schedule of IPO preparations. One of its key elements is meeting investors. I have already...
SERGEI BOGDANCHIKOV For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER Pizza sales, we would have yard sales and everything we could to raise the money to get this togethe...
MIKE HARDING While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own... NIGEL LAWSON I think its real important as we plan ahead for the Charlotte High of the next 50 to 75 years.
BARNEY DUFFY The market has a high expectation for comparable sales going forward but it may be difficult for the...
DEAN HASKELL We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES
Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too. RICHIE NORTON The increase of sales are huge and its good for the city and restaurants and all that.
GROVER SMITH Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales. We wanted to continue our high summer numbers.
BRENDA RIOS The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY I would rather be a good man with mediocre book sales, than a mediocre man with big book sales. Book...
DOUG WEAD
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&... GAIL COLLINS Despite rising fuel prices, devastating weather events and a difficult market environment, Chrysler ...
TOM LASORDA
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem a... WALTER KAUFMANN
It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 per... BILL GROSS All of the government statistics have been far less scary than consensus expectations. (Retail sales...
CHARLES CRANE With the FOMC meeting less than one week away, and 10-year rates soon to be within 25 basis points o...
WILLIAM PROPHET Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of wea...
HOWARD MORLEY A manufacturer cannot charge more tomorrow for the same digital camera he's selling today, no matter...
WILLIAM VALENTINE Our increased level of investment in marketing and sales, with the priority on key growth drivers, r...
DANIEL VASELLA I would venture to say we are one of the top startups in the U.S. as far as total sales.
TOM SHAHEEN This is their dream so maybe they go one less place or maybe do one less thing they are still going ...
MATT HOWARD We were truly at a break-neck pace for home sales in January and February, likely the result of unse...
DAVID LEREAH Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the ...
WARREN JENSON Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the ...
WARREN JENSON Poultry gross sales climbed 17 percent over year-earlier levels due in large part to increased value...
LARRY BURT It was a much more difficult win than any of my others but its nicer when you really have to fight f...
KIMI RAIKKONEN
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appea... M. J. ROSE We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a t...
BOB SCHNORBUS It's a great company, and the stock was pretty cheap until today. It's a leader in the arts and craf...
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sa...
OWEN DAVIS
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