Sentences with phrase «by opening sales»

«By opening sales to Avignon earlier than usual we are giving customers even more flexibility when planning their summer trip to Provence.

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Yum shares fell 5 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday after results showed sales at restaurants open at least a year rose 1 percent in the three months ended March 31, compared with the 2 percent expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.

Sales at Yum restaurants open at least a year rose 1 percent in the three months ended March 31, compared with the 2 percent expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.

Equally enduring have been the strategies and tactics Patterson's sales army perfected: the open - ended question, the scripted pitch, the art of defusing objections by acknowledging the customer's concerns before countering them, trust building.

«We intend to double our sales within five years, and we anticipate that we can do so only by being «open.»

Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg film, a respectable opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions in marketing costs.

McDonald's announced global sales increased by 3.6 % in May overall and 2.6 % at stores open at least 13 months.

It also opened Stumpf up to tough lines of attack from senators — that he was laying the blame on struggling employees who were trying to make aggressive sales targets to get by.

(RadioShack's Canadian cousin - several - times - removed is actually doing much better by comparison, opening new stores and gradually increasing sales.)

Sales at stores open for at least one year fell in the third quarter by 2.3 % at company - owned restaurants.

By 3:23, I had 484 opens, 93 clicks, and a total of 27 sales.

In the past few weeks, Wells Fargo has been widely criticized for having a compensation structure that rewarded sales people for opening accounts, regardless of whether those accounts would actually be used by customers.

Second quarter sales at Panera's company - owned cafes rose 4.2 % on a comparable basis, a metric that indicates a restaurant's health by excluding any gains from new store openings.

In 1973, the company countered the sales block by opening 4 company - owned «Athletic Department» retail stores in key cities across the country and soon pushed the number up to 12.

The plan to keep 1,740 stores open was attacked by the bankrupt retailer's top creditor, a failed bidder who called the auction a sham and sought a new sale.

Riviera expanded by opening 4 more stores under his company's ownership and adding 12 more with franchisees, who paid an up - front fee of $ 20,000, plus 5 % of sales.

According to reports by NRG, Hollywood's leading tracking service, Black Panther is on track to have a monster debut in the U.S., with projections of opening weekend sales upward of $ 165 million.

And today the 400 - employee company is extending its brand by opening retail stores and issuing auxiliary catalogs, all part of a campaign to reach $ 90 million in annual sales by the end of 1998.

A new owner could soap up sales even more by staying open evenings and Sundays, or by advertising pricey high - end services.

Dunkin' Brands has also been hurt by fewer restaurant openings, as well as a drop in sales at established Baskin - Robbins outlets in the U.S., according to a previous report.

Many years ago, the company that produces Angostura bitters doubled its sales by widening the size of its bottle opening, which caused consumers to pour more into their drinks, Bachenheimer says.

Sales at restaurants open at least 13 months rose 8.1 percent, but less than the 9.5 percent gain expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.

For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives listeners access to his exclusive step - by - step system - the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams.

The offering is due to open to the general public in March, but investors who got in on an earlier, private investment round, are already flipping their GRAM cryptotokens for twice the price they paid, according to sale documents seen by Quartz.

These companies have included Sun Microsystems as they invented Open Systems and Client Server architectures; through to running global sales and marketing for a high growth private cloud start - up founded by the CTO of Goldman Sachs; as well as driving Digital Marketing platform sales in Microsoft.

She said those sales at stores open a year or more — a key retail measure — grew in the mobile phone category but «was more than offset» by declines in tablets, gaming and digital imaging.

Low Load Fund - This is the specific charge on a given sales by company that is an open - end investment firm.

The goal is to open e-commerce channels in every market where the company has a physical presence, which would help to drive online sales growth by at least 25 percent a year over the next several years.

In addition, the company plans to open its new Manhattan sales location by the middle of 2016.

The intended token sale opens at twenty - seven cents ($ 0.27), and rises by two cents ($ 0.02) every four day period, to a peak of thirty - five cents ($ 0.35).

When Dominique Mandonnaud opened his first perfumery in 1969, perfume and cosmetics were hidden behind counters, jealously guarded by intimidating sales reps.. The message was clear.

The first four months of 2018 saw the third highest - grossing movie of all time and the highest opening weekend ticket sales ever achieved by a film.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Fed controls monetary policy by making open - market sales or purchases of government bonds and Treasury bills.

At Denny's, which had same - restaurant sales increase by 1 percent in its latest quarter and opened 13 new restaurants while closing five, the executive team has placed a focus on value to push the brand forward.

Shares of open - end funds, by contrast, trade at NAV, though they may be subject to sales charges.

In other words, the Fed has undermined its own flexibility, by increasing the likely cost, directly to the U.S. Treasury and indirectly to itself, of using open - market sales to tighten credit.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The problems at Wells Fargo and its overly aggressive sales culture date back at least 15 years, and management had little interest in dealing with the issue until it spiraled out of control resulting in millions of accounts being opened fraudulently, according to an investigation by the company's board of directors.

At the Shadow Open Market Committee fall meeting on Sept. 15, economist Peter Ireland of Boston College argued that the effect of reducing the balance sheet is ultimately equivalent to an open - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest rOpen Market Committee fall meeting on Sept. 15, economist Peter Ireland of Boston College argued that the effect of reducing the balance sheet is ultimately equivalent to an open - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest ropen - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest rate.

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

Global sales at locations open at least 13 months fell 1 % in the quarter, driven by a 1.2 % U.S. decline.

Quarterly revenue increased 11 % year over year to $ 566 million, helped not only by better comparable sales but also from an additional 33 locations that weren't open last year.

December 13, 2017 - AppCoins supported by Aptoide, one of the world's most popular App Stores with more than 200 + million users has opened its public token sale offering APPC tokens.

Anderson believes that raw retail sales will be boosted by gasoline prices, which are slightly up since April, and automobile sales, where lending has opened up.

By opening the debate on dead and failed coins, the community will start benefiting even before the public sale of the CoinJanitor token begins on March 15th, 2018.

«We are thrilled to extend our exceptional sales and customer support by opening an office in San Francisco,» says Paige Freeman, who is now part of our San Francisco office as our VP of Ssales and customer support by opening an office in San Francisco,» says Paige Freeman, who is now part of our San Francisco office as our VP of SalesSales.

«Back in 2010, while I was VP of Sales at uberVu (acquired by HootSuite in 2011), Mike joined our Advisory Board and within a month he had a full grasp of our business and had opened no less than 50 doors for potential clients directly with the CEO of each company.

Sydney, Australia — LEEKICO, a one - stop - service ICO platform, successfully supported NKN, a project aiming to rebuild the Internet that will be truly open, decentralized, dynamic, safe, shared and owned by the community, to complete its highly anticipated token sale on April 19th, 2018.

As part of what looks like it will amount to by - far the biggest ICO so far, at least by sales, the messaging app Telegram appears to have exceeded its pre-sale goal for Telegram Open Network (TON) and its Gram token.

Wild responded to the crisis generated by the aficionados of the former nickname by stating that the university was not for sale, by teaching about the true idea of a Catholic university as transcending athletics and nicknames, and by opening the door to a reconsideration of nicknames as long as the nickname did not violate Catholic teaching.