Sentences with phrase «cent growth last»

Even during lean times, the food industry in Canada saw five - per - cent growth last year.

Not exact matches

Last month, Green Mountain noted that its growth is slowing but that it still expects sales to increase by 15 to 20 per cent next year.

Western Australia has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

Services industries expanded 2.8 per cent last year for their highest pace of growth since 2011.

Whatever the arguments about fiscal policy's effectiveness in countering deep and lasting recessions, of a kind the world faced in 2008, it was never envisaged that it should be wheeled out the minute economic growth fell below two per cent.

Chinese export growth did slow towards the end of last year, but only from around 30 to around 25 per cent, and, in any case, the bulk of China's growth is being driven by domestic demand.

When Flaherty delivered last spring's budget, he expected growth near three per cent this year and next.

While the flagship iPhone X may not have matched the hype from its launch late last year, the device's $ 999 starting price helped boost phone revenue growth 14 per cent.

At home, the company's annual same - store sales growth in Canada — a measure of the performance of restaurants open for more than a year — have slipped from a high of six per cent in the mid-2000s to little more than one per cent last year.

The proposals from the presidential campaign, reiterated last week by President - elect Donald Trump's choice for Treasury secretary, will massively favour the top 1 per cent of income earners, threaten an explosive rise in federal debt, complicate the tax code and do little if anything to spur growth.

The IMF last week openly discussed the possibility of stagnation, as it cut its outlook for global economic growth to a meagre 3.1 per cent.

Our new annual growth forecast for 2016 is 1.4 per cent; however, much of the downward revision in that figure is because of the weakness we saw in the final quarter of last year.

Indonesia is the largest country in the 10 - member Asean bloc, with more than 260 million people and economic growth of 5 per cent last year.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said last week that gross domestic product expanded 1.1 per cent in the first three months of the year, while year - on - year headline growth accelerated to 3.1 per cent, its fastest pace in almost four years.

The numbers could be an indication that economic growth is rebounding in the last three months of the year after GDP growth dropped to a meagre 0.6 per cent between July and September.

In contrast, abstracting from the increased circulation of cash around the end of last year, annual growth in currency has been relatively stable at around 7 — 8 per cent for a number of years.

The Mercer Quarterly Salary Review indicated that annual growth in the base salaries of executives increased marginally to 4.7 per cent in the March quarter, after picking up over the second half of last year.

Still, passenger revenues climbed in the first quarter from $ 3.1 billion last year to $ 3.5 billion this year, driven by traffic growth of 11.4 per cent and yield improvement of 0.4 per cent.

In China, growth in activity appears to have maintained the extremely rapid pace seen last year, with GDP expanding by 9.7 per cent over the year to the March quarter.

Sid Rajeev, Vice President, Head of Research at Fundamental Research Corp., notes, «The Commodities Research Unit («CRU») Group estimates electric car and plug - in hybrid vehicle sales could reach approximately 14.2 million by 2025, up from 0.77 million last year, reflecting a compound average growth rate of 38 per cent per year from 2016 to 2025.»

Last month, Statistics Canada reported that the labour productivity rate growth contracted 0.2 per cent in 2015, by far its weakest result in three years.

The latest Consensus forecasts are for GDP growth in the G7 group of countries of 1 1/2 per cent in 2003, similar to that achieved last year, rising to 2 1/2 per cent in 2004 (Graph 1).

According to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, year - ended house price growth declined to around 8 per cent in March from 20 per cent in the middle of last year.

The telecommunications sector recorded particularly strong growth in net profits, with Telstra reporting an increase of 44 per cent on the same period last year.

Upstream price pressures have subsided to some extent, with year - ended growth in the corporate goods price index of 3.5 per cent in March, down from 9.6 per cent in September last year.

Over the second half of last year, personal credit recorded a solid pace of growth, and revolving credit secured against residential mortgages increased at an annual rate of around 27 per cent.

Modest growth in export quantities and prices, together with flat imports (on a quarterly basis), pushed the March quarter balance on goods and services back into a surplus of around half of one per cent of GDP, reversing the deterioration late last year.

The Association of British Bookmakers was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying: «The increase in revenue from gaming machines in betting shops of three per cent [compared to the last report] is in line with the average growth in revenue across the whole of the gambling industry [three per cent] and growth in the economy as a whole.»

(4) gaining exposure to a long - duration growth asset, with AAC having demonstrated internally funded compound growth in the asset base of about 4 per cent a year over the last 15 years; and

This saw Australian wine imports to China decline 8 per cent in 2013, before returning to growth last year, according to Wine Australia the country's peak marketing body.

Mr O'Connell and CCA chief executive Alison Watkins are confident that the $ 10 million launch of Coke Life on April 7 will restore volume and sales growth to the entire Coca - Cola brand, improving CCA's fortunes after a horror year last in 2014, when sales fell 2 per cent and net profit by 25 per cent to the lowest level for eight years.

The growth adds to a 91 per cent rise in organic milk sales across the UK in the year up to last November.

Woolworths reported last week that earnings before interest and tax for the Australian food and liquor division, which accounted for 66 per cent of sales in the half, grew 6.3 per cent to $ 1.49 billion - nearly doubling the earnings growth of the overall business.

Gillooly said Pitango was a strong, profitable business that had achieved compound annual growth rates of around 30 per cent over the last six years.

Projected growth in the wine industry comes after the value of wine exports jumped 15 per cent to be worth $ 2.56 billion last year.

The evidence suggests that most real people are shocked by the growth of inequality and the rise of the super-rich (or top 1.0 cent) which have been among the central themes of the last thirty years of British history.

With a total population of 1.3 billion people and a GDP growth rate last year of 7.8 per cent, albeit down from 9.3 per cent in 2011, it is set to become the largest economy in the world within a generation.

Overall, immigration has seen the UK's population grow by 1.7 million in the last ten years - almost 70 per cent of the total growth in the UK's population.

Adeyeye also said the current result falls significantly below the 3.96 per cent growth in Q1 2015, which was PDP's last full quarter in office.

«You will recall that the NBS indicated that in the last quarter of 2017 the economy had continued its positive growth trajectory by growing by 1.92 per cent.

«I am happy to inform you that despite the general shrinking of the global economy by two per cent in year 2010 and a not too favourable outlook for 2012, Nigeria remains a growing economy, achieving an average growth rate of about six per cent in the last three years.

Fashion sales up but future looks gloomy (Times Online) «Sales of clothes, shoes and textiles were 9.5 per cent higher than in April last year, the biggest annual rise since July last year... Analysts said that retailers would struggle to keep up the momentum as households faced sluggish earnings growth and political uncertainty as well as tax rises and spending cuts.»

A leading «sugar daddy» app last year claimed it had almost a quarter of a million UK students on its books — a 40 per cent growth on the same period of time two years ago.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

«I had one student last cycle who had completed 17 modules and had 467 per cent growth in their learning.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

While the pupil population has grown by per cent in the last nine years, the rate of growth is projected to double to 10 per cent in the next nine years.

On the sales expectations of the company this fiscal, Suri said: «In the first quarter, we sold over 1,000 units registering a growth of 45 per cent over the same period last year.

It was also announced that Renault recorded more than 50 per cent growth in sales in the first quarter, compared to same period last year.

In the last financial year, the company sold more than 1.70 lakh units and registered a growth of eight per cent.