He said the company incurred redundancy costs and had to hire new staff and this had slowed its planned expansion, which would involve between 6 per cent and 7 per
cent growth annually in store numbers.
Not exact matches
In the Canadian data, firm population
growth has picked up but remains slow, at around 1 per
cent annually, well below pre-crisis rates.
The Institute also proposes to limit employee compensation
growth to 1 per
cent annually for 2013 and 2014.
Most economists expect potential economic
growth to decline from about 3 per
cent annually to about 2 per
cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity
growth and a slowing labour force
growth as the population ages.
In China, the world's most populous country, economic
growth averaged about 10 per
cent annually between 2001 and 2011, a period that included the global financial crisis.
India's economy has performed strongly in recent years, with GDP
growth averaging an impressive 6.1 per
cent annually over the past 10 years (Graph A1).
The BSI report found that the use of standards accounted for 28.4 per
cent of
growth in the UK's GDP, a 37.4 per
cent growth in its productivity and an increase of 6.1 billion pounds (approximately 12.2 billion Canadian dollars) in UK exports
annually.
State spending
growth to be held to an average 0.8 per
cent annually from 2011 to 2015, meaning cuts to some budgets and the scrapping of some programmes.
Africa economic
growth is projected to hit an average of 5 per
cent annually in the next fews if not morevsome countries doing much better than that like Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique and Nigeria.
«Vietnam's gross domestic product has increased approximately eight per
cent annually for the last three years, and it has a projected
growth of eight to 8.5 per
cent over the next several years, second only to China in the Asia Pacific region.