Sentences with phrase «few years i purchased»

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In its first few years, App Store popularity — in terms of purchases and profits — grew slowly.

Former customers are the best source for future sales, even in businesses where customers make purchases only every few years.

Consumers will need to purchase a USB Type - C cable to use the port, which is similar to the Lightning cable iPhone's and iPad's switched to a few years ago.

In the past few years, Apple has purchased several AR startups, including FlyBy Media and Metaio.

Faisall isn't a fossil collector — he's a seven - year - old kid from the U.K. who was playing Jurassic World: The Game on his unsuspecting father's tablet and who, with a few naive taps, authorized 60 in - app purchases in his quest to upgrade his digital herd.

This may mean you purchase fewer new supplies in the coming year or you need to add two new employees.

But those buyers made 9 % fewer purchases than last year, and they spent 5 % less.

Despite a long sales cycle and little volume driven by repeat purchases, this legendary piano saleswoman sold more than $ 40 million in Steinways before retiring a few years ago.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

While the country's online purchases are lower in comparison to other countries, this is expected to grow in the next few years, which could leave an opening for businesses interested in reaching those new online shoppers.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

These coupon sites allow customers to purchase discounted gift certificates for goods or services, and while the craze has died down from a few years ago, the marketing model is still going strong.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

In the early days of Amy's Kitchen, founder Andy Berliner got a few calls a year from large companies looking to purchase the budding maker of natural frozen foods.

Taxpayer incentives in Norway helped spark purchases of electric vehicles that now make up 17 % of the nation's new car sales — up from barely anything a few years prior, according to Bloomberg.

The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate of 50 per cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years of owning the asset.

Williams and her sister, Venus, also own a separate Palm Beach Gardens home, to which they made a 4,000 - square - foot addition a few years after purchase.

The ECB will have to respond to catastrophic eurozone unemployment and growing social unrest by stepping up asset purchases this year, after a hiatus in the past few months...

So what can you do if you're a millennial in debt hoping to purchase a home in the next few years?

Many of the card offers you will see from the different card companies will come with an introductory APR offer, usually 0 % on either balance transfers or purchases for a period of a few months to sometimes over a year.

However, your post reminded me of a great piece of software I purchased from Reel Logix a few years ago which may be worth dusting off.

Do this a few times a year as the competitive landscape and purchasing habits change.

If I do decide to buy another property in the next few years, then I will plan to take that money out of my brokerage account, or start building a cash reserve once I have a new purchase goal.

Central bankers have announced plans to turn their asset purchasing programs into asset selling programs over the next few years.

Secondly, Graham made his money by purchasing undervalued stocks and then selling them at fair value within a few years.

Sam — I have a quick question about your plan to purchase another property in SF or Hawaii in the next few years.

With few exceptions, Guaranteed Rate returned the lowest estimates on a 30 - year mortgage rate in our analysis of purchase loan options in Illinois.

It's not as bleak as it was a few years ago, but the outlook still isn't as strong as it was when this generation's parents were making their first home purchases.

More than 75 percent of farmland sold in the District was purchased by farmers despite a slight decrease from a few years ago and sharp declines in U.S. farm income (Chart 4).

Things are just more expensive in general than they were years ago, or viewed differently, the dollar in your pocket can purchase fewer goods than you could in the past.

But a few weeks later the governor of the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority, Muhammad al Jasser, insisted to news reporters in Kuwait that Saudi Arabia had not purchased the gold cited in the June reports but rather had that extra gold all along in what he called «other accounts» — that is, in accounts not reported officially, just as the true status of China's gold accounts was not reported officially for six years, if the true status is being reported even now.

As the proceeds from these redemptions are reinvested by the ECB, they will offset some of the recently announced reduction in the central bank's purchases — perhaps by as much as a half overall — although with relatively few redemptions in the first quarter of 2018, the reinvestment is scheduled to take place mainly in the second and third quarters of the coming year.

Investor purchasing intentions have changed significantly since ORC surveyed investors in August, when only 30 percent said they planned to buy fewer properties in the next 12 months than they did in the previous year.

One challenge in pinning down a safe withdrawal rate: large additional cash flows because they plan to purchase of an RV and then sell it a few years later.

If you're thinking about buying a second home this year, there are a few different ways you can fund your new purchase.

In recent years, many alternative strategies have become more widely available as mutual funds and ETFs with fewer purchase restrictions.

These deals give you a low - interest rate on your balance for anywhere from a few months to over a year, and some also have low rates for purchases as part of the introductory offer.

Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said last month that its purchases over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.

But, Congress has frequently given additional incentives to businesses over the past few years, to encourage them to purchase capital assets for their businesses.

Government officials also began investigating HNA Group and Fosun, which have both purchased trophy Manhattan buildings in the last few years.

Still, I hope you've been budgeting to purchase a nice big rifle / shotgun to mount over your doorposts in a few years... to keep the wild animals away (eg.

David Levy (president of the Caucus of Producers, Directors, and Writers) explained that some twenty years ago such sponsors as Kraft, Hallmark, and Texaco normally purchased a whole series of programs on television, but that today sponsors only purchase time — a few minutes of spot advertising on many different programs.

David Levy (President of the Caucus of Producers, Directors, and Writers) explains that some 20 years ago sponsors normally purchased a whole series of programs on television or radio — Kraft, Hallmark, Texaco, and so on — but that today sponsors only purchase time — a few minutes of spot advertising on many different programs.

I remember before I was a Christian I read the King James Bible, then when I became a Christian I purchased a Good News, after a few years I got a NIV now I'm using a New Living translation which includes notes of explanation to the passages.

I actually purchased mine almost two years ago now, and I still have a few inches left in this huge container, and they are still just as fresh as when I bought them.

I purchased copies for all of the lovely ladies in my life for Christmas gifts (and of course, a copy for myself) I have been following your blog for a few years now, and I just love it.

I had the luxury of talking my sis into purchasing my home a few years ago, so I didn't have to have strangers come in my home.

Within a few years, they had purchased 100 hens and started selling farm - fresh eggs door to door.

In 1985, Tom Carr purchased Tucson Scale & Food Equipment and split off the restaurant service and parts business into a separate entity called Tucson Restaurant Equipment Service a few years later.

I purchased the tea towels from IKEA, but that was a few years ago.