Whether that activity translates into
actual sales remains to be seen.
Not exact matches
While the share of
sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the
actual fraction
remains small.
At the end of the May, following three rounds of auction, it had sold most of the items on the docket, but, based on listing prices — Beibu Gulf Equity Exchange has only partially disclosed
actual sales prices — raised only 1.38 billion yuan ($ 208 million), with the
remaining assets valued at 1.58 billion yuan ($ 238 million)(see Figure 2).
These estimations are disputed by some in the industry, of course, but they
remain one interpretation of what's going on in a market that must function without
actual sales data from its major retailers.
Most of the time it doesn't bother me though — I'm always interested if it's a post on a one - day
sale or some special event / signing etc. — but I
remain unconvinced that Facebook is a tool for
actual marketing.
Rather than allowing authors to upload their manuscripts for free then taking a percentage of each
sale — which is after the percentage the
actual retailer will also take — BookBaby charges a one - time upload fee and then the
remaining royalties belong to the author, other than what the catalogs like Amazon or Barnes and Noble charge.
Although the iPad
remains the best - selling tablet, Apple's share of the tablet market dropped 8.1 points year - over-year during the last quarter — albeit based on shipments rather than
actual sales to end users, according to new iDC numbers.
Newmark Security (NWT: LN): A further (13) % loss, and we still
remain in the dark here... While revenue held up last year, profits fell on investment in new market & product development, and since September we've had significantly lower revenues and
actual P&L losses to look forward to as «the opportunity pipeline continues to grow but the conversion into
sales has been slower than hoped».
-- At the outset, Altas NAV is minimal, and may
remain unchanged for quite some time to come — i.e. substantial NAV write - ups will prob require
actual asset collection /
sales and / or the settlement / elimination of liabilities.
That means implementing one of three basic scenarios: (1) consumers paying more for less electricity; (2) electricity prices
remaining steady and taxpayers being called upon to subsidize the difference between the profits from
actual electricity
sales and the profits guaranteed by government; or (3) some combination of the two.