Sentences with phrase «brisk business in»

Gazelle: This site is doing a brisk business in the iPad buyback market, and they also offer free shipping for sellers, plus the ability to get paid via check, PayPal, or Amazon gift card.

4) Air conditioning companies and funeral homes will do a brisk business in the more frequent summer heat waves ahead.

At Calcutta's famous New Market, vendors do brisk business in fruitcake as Christmas approaches.

Despite doing brisk business in high end play, the M ran headfirst into a faltering economy and was taken over by Penn National Gaming in a $ 350M debt swap.

A Philly dining landmark, Jamaican Jerk Hut — a pivotal location in the Cameron Diaz classic In Her Shoes — does a brisk business in traditional delicacies like jerk chicken, curry goat and ginger beer.

Then there is the WePad from German company Neofonie that has already gone on sale in Europe and from initial reports coming in, it's doing brisk business in Europe.

It is one of Overdrive's main business partners and does fairly brisk business in schools, libraries, and corporate institutions.

Local liquor stores and bars did, I imagine, a brisk business in Chardonnay.

Meanwhile, Houston ISD does a brisk business in items like pizza and corn dogs, «carnival» foods the district is terrified to discontinue lest student participation drop and the entire school lunch program sink into the red.

In real life, he owns a small fishing - tackle shop at Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, doing a brisk business in worms.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, the principal of Alvin's school suggested that the father and son get professional help, and referred them to John Cayton, a counselor with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, a family - therapy clinic that does a brisk business in absentee - parent cases.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport does a brisk business in «scorpion suckers» (hard candy with a scorpion in the center), and racks up a million dollars in sales of cactus plants each year.

Not exact matches

At a time when many business schools are reporting declining enrollment in their full - time MBA programs, Welch's Management Institute is doing a brisk business.

Still, much of the brisk business overall reflected the abundance of deals, showing that shoppers are as bargain - hungry now as they were during in the first years after the Great Recession, if not more.

This irony wasn't lost on the magazine's staff: in the debut issue, McArdle dryly observed that the periodical was being launched «at a time when the present business situation may not be exceptionally brisk.»

What does matter is that a store like Holt Renfrew is doing brisk business not just in $ 5,000 suits (top brands like Givenchy and Cavali are up by about 300 % since last year) but also in tie clips and bow ties and, yes, even bracelets.

China business has proven to be brisker than that in the U.S..

Together with ready access to low - cost financing, this has underpinned a brisk pick - up in business investment.

Business activity in the manufacturing sector expanded at a brisk pace, and manufacturers are generally optimistic about the near - term growth outlook.

There's a general consensus in the American workplace that time - worn ways of doing business are being upended at a brisk rate, thanks to factors like technology and globalization.

James Bowyer, writing about them in the South African magazine, Out There, noted: «Chiles are taken seriously on Rodrigues and the chile man is doing brisk business although brisk is a word that seems out of place on the laid - back island.

That growing interest seems to be reflected in Lawrence, where Amber Lehrman and her husband recently sold the city's only diaper service - which they opened three years ago - because business was getting too brisk.

It is the fourth poorest region in the country despite its agriculture, fishing and the high level of brisk business which goes on in one of its towns, which is arguably the most expanding urban area in West Africa, Kasoa.

Business is brisk, and if we can have attorneys that have investigative background through either a prosecutor's office or something similar but also have a background in ethics, that would be ideal.»

More test rides too were on offer than ever before and Honda, Harley - Davidson, Suzuki and Ducati reported brisk business with Ducati in particular on their first ever attendance at the BMF Show running well over 50 test rides!

He added that he wanted to see «brisker progress» in the day to day business of the House of Commons with shorter questions and answers and a «more considered» approach to business.

Energia, which also does a brisk side business in more mundane products like coffeemakers and vacuum cleaners, has so far created the most talked about design.

Or consider Olivier Assayas's French movie Irma Vep, another exciting state - of - the - planet address, which I saw at Cannes in 1996: it did terrible business in France the following fall but enjoyed an unexpectedly brisk box office at New York's Film Forum last month, where it's already been held over several weeks.

Nevertheless, since the great majority of home schoolers in the 1980s and 1990s were conservative Protestants, Christian presses did a brisk business selling textbooks and other material to them, at huge annual conventions attended by thousands, at local Christian bookstores, and, increasingly, over the Internet.

Digital comics are doing brisk business and in the last month we have seen sweeping changes in the industry.

The e-reader scene in the United Kingdom is getting very competitive with Waterstones and many other companies doing brisk business with Kobo and Amazon.

I would hope that the next generation of e-reader recognizes the fact that tablets are dominating the landscape and need a new gimmick in order to continue doing brisk business.

The flagship store on Robson Street in Vancouver and Indigo Yorkdale have been doing brisk business selling American Girl Apparel.

In spite of these realities, adoption shelters are doing a brisk business while many pet retailers fight to survive.

In San Diego, home to Southern California's biggest sportfishing fleet, boats large and small have seen brisk business all summer for voyages lasting from a few hours to a few weeks.

You see, by examining how the blue - chip galleries of an arts metropolis utilize social media and social networking tools, I thought perhaps artists who are represented by smaller galleries (or themselves) could glean some wisdom - after all, the galleries I looked at do a very brisk business and many have been around since before Facebook was even a glimmer in a Harvard student's eye - on what should and shouldn't be a part of their online marketing strategy.

Business at Syjuco's stand was brisk, but elsewhere in the fair the story was mixed.

Treize, a nonprofit in the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville, set up an artists» record shop as an experiment in production and distribution that was doing brisk business.

Shackelford said business has been brisk, in large part because of federal programs that substantially cut homeowner's costs through tax credits and other initiatives, like the National Home Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American homes.

It has received approval to do so from the Department of Energy, and given the current differential between US natural gas prices and LNG prices in other parts of the world, the terminal looks well - positioned to do brisk business.

In addition to having his own brisk sales business, Ho, 26, had a hand in almost every one of the Energized Realty Group's 170 sales transactions in 201In addition to having his own brisk sales business, Ho, 26, had a hand in almost every one of the Energized Realty Group's 170 sales transactions in 201in almost every one of the Energized Realty Group's 170 sales transactions in 201in 2011.

Prospective buyers will drive around the city looking for virtual real estate signs and you will be doing a brisk business at the centre of the real estate transaction, which, thanks to technological advances, has now become the focal point of a centrifuge of activity, spinning off revenue in all directions.

June Slusser: Business is brisk in the Blue Ridge Mountain high country.

It's fueling brisk sales in the remodeling business and at home improvement stores.