Sentences with phrase «first significant sale»

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The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

3D marketing will be playing a significant role in b2b sales for the first time ever.

A solid balance sheet has First Solar on track to continue to lead the market and generate significant sales when panel demand recovers in the very near future, no matter what the Trump administration's policy on climate and energy.

First Solar already counts on sales outside the United States for a significant portion of revenue and cash flows.

In 2012, sales recorded their first significant increase since the recession, rising an estimated 10 percent, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association.

It was the first significant tech stock sale since at least December.

Futamura, the global leader in renewable and compostable cellulose films for the flexible packaging industry, announces they have seen significant sales growth and record levels of operational efficiency in their first year, as they celebrate one year since the acquisition of the Innovia films» cellulose business.

The sale was also a first significant win for the newly established Knight Frank South Australia agricultural business line.

Organic food now accounts for more than five percent of total food sales in this country, another significant first for organic.

Commenting on the figures, Construction Products Association senior economist, Kelly Forrest said: «It is encouraging that sales rose in the first quarter, but manufacturers also highlighted the key factors that threaten growth throughout 2012 and into 2013, these factors include the continuing uncertainty within the euro zone, and significant concern regarding rising costs, especially fuel costs.

«The moment that I seized upon was the mayor making an announcement — a very significant, first - in - the - nation bill that he wanted to advance — regarding hiding cigarettes [at retail points of sale],» said Gennaro.

Augmented reality, which started out as a novelty, as entertainment, as a first cousin of silly - fun Snapchat filters, looks to be turning into a powerful and hugely significant sales tool for the cosmetics industry.

BMW has just reached its first significant milestone for plug - in car sales, with more than 100,000 plug - in hybrid and electric vehicles sold since its first models hit the market in 2013.

As BMW's first - ever SUV, the X5 was a significant step in the company's history, and BMW X models now make up around a third of the company's sales.

The new X5 eDrive is significant: On sale here next year, it's BMW's first production plug - in model; perhaps more important, it is also a rolling blueprint for several more plug ins, including a new...

The Kia Soul EV is significant in electric car circles as it was the first battery powered SUV to be offered for sale in the UK.

The Niro will be the first car on the market to capitalise on two significant trends: rising sales of plug - in hybrid models (forecast to expand to more than 600,000 units per annum by the end of 2023) and continued growth in the compact crossover market.

The Acura MDX has undergone a significant redesign for the 2017 model year and was the best - selling 3 - row luxury crossover in the first three - quarters of 2016, with over 39,500 sales, according to goodcarbadcar.net.

«The ’14 Chevy Silverado was the first model this year to show significant changes in design,» said Suzie Kirby, AnzoUSA director of sales and marketing.

The car may launch at the end of 2014, and significant sales volume won't begin until the first quarter of 2015.

Aimed directly at volume - selling small cars like the Mazda3, Holden Cruze and Toyota Corolla, the Rapid represents the most significant sales opportunity for the fledgling Volkswagen Audi Group brand, which enters Australia's largest single sales segment for the first time.

Mark your calendar: the first half of 2015 saw sales of new passenger cars becoming rarer than ever, resulting in a significant shift in the top 10 list of best - selling new...

The Niro will be the first car on the market to capitalize on two significant trends: rising sales of plug - in hybrid models (forecast to expand in Europe to more than 600,000 units per year by the end of 2023) and continued growth in the compact crossover market.

The new X5 eDrive is significant: On sale here next year, it's BMW's first production plug - in model; perhaps more important, it is also a rolling blueprint for several more plug ins, including a new 3 - series eDrive recently spied testing.

The first was the addition of the SUS, or «Sport Utility Sedan,» which was the brainchild of Ernie Boch, a man who had taken a big chance on Subaru in the 1970s by purchasing Subaru of New England and building an empire that would account for a significant percentage of the brand's national sales as everyone from Vermont to Rhode Island fell in love with the brand's all - wheel drive offerings.

As a first step — assuming there isn't significant demand prior to the publication date — an author could use POD to make her books available for order through channels such as Amazon and Ingram, and then for any sizable sales demands that come later, she could have an offset run produced specifically to fulfill that demand.

Griepp suggested that there was a significant decline in graphic novel sales in 2009 as well, but that was masked by what he called «the Watchmen effect,» thanks to the enormous sales of the «Watchmen» graphic novel following the movie that accounting for 50 % of bookstore sales in the first half of 2009.

The first generation Kindle Fire was a popular product and was able to dent the sales of the iPad — although not by a significant margin.

If you make millions of sales with your first few titles, then you're probably so busy spending / investing the money that writing more books in the series becomes a significant chore.

However, seeing that significant boost in sales as readers checked out the first book in the series, Highmage's Plight «s publisher suddenly wanted to renew my contract.

An Australian first study by Macquarie University of the country's book publishing industry reveals considerable innovation in response to the digital disruption that has resulted in a significant drop in onshore book sales.

And, best of all, sales on non-Amazon retailers make up a significant portion of that figure, and Amazon UK has opened up for the first time.

It appears the only ones benefiting from KU are authors who either have multiple books (like in a series) and / or have combined KU with other creative marketing strategies or they simply lacked any significant sales in the first place.

For the first time, there will be an award for non-traditional sales outlets, sponsored by Quarto, recognising the significant contribution made to book sales by retailers such as giftshops, museums and clothes retailers.

The next most significant news came when Apple announced the sales of the Apple handset has broken the last record of 600,000 in one day, with a million iPhones 4S being pre-ordered on the very first day.

The second most significant news item came when Tesco mobile saw iPhone sales drop in favour of Google mobile OS driven devices, for the first time ever.

PC sales have declined in 2012 for the first time in years, and not expected to mount a significant recovery any time soon.

As I've said before, we'll probably need to see a significant disposal first... and whatever about delays / appeals re MMM, I still think the farmland, the added value dairy & the animal feed businesses should all be fair game for a sale.

At first E-mail marketing may seem to be a very difficult and costly form of advertising, but if you hire a professional like Nationwide to manage you E-mail marketing campaigns you will see a significant rise in sales leads.

- Nintendo is selling three physical Switch games for every console sold in the UK and Spain - this matches the performance of Wii - Nintendo says the Switch's global tie - ratio is 3.6 - 78 % of Nintendo Switch games are sold in boxes, by comparison only 47 % of PS4 games are sold physically - the only blips in Switch sales have occurred during moments of stock shortages - there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey - across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been sold for the first 36 weeks of its life - this is about 49 % of what the Wii managed to do over the same period (which launched over Christmas)- this is 300 % of what the Wii U managed to achieve - Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations - there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment - if demand increases for the holiday season, GAME says «we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go.»

The first being that the online functionality for certain key titles to be released in this quarter and thereafter is expected to become a significant component of game play for certain platforms for which the company will have continuing performance obligations beyond the sale of the game.

Although less than 25 percent of the lots are by women artists, some significant works by women are for sale: «Roots,» a poignant color screen print by Catlett that the gallery says has not been seen at auction in 20 years (shown above); «March on Washington,» 1964 (oil on canvas), a beautifully rendered painting by Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978); Faith Ringgold's 1974 «Night: Window of the Wedding 8,» touted as the first of her fabric paintings to be offered at auction (shown below); and «Still Life with Grapefruit,» 1928, described on the frame backing as Lois Mailou Jones's first painting, completed a year after she graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

It was gratifying to tally up significant sales as first - time buyers joined repeat customers in snapping up our artists» work.

While this is an unprecedented fifteenth exhibition for the artist at the Maxwell Davidson Gallery, it marks the first time the Estate of George Rickey has made a significant group of works available for sale.

This was no coincidence, as her master work The Death and Life of Great American Cities has just been translated into Hebrew for the first time, and was on sale at the conference at a significant discount.

A significant copyright decision this week has lawyers, bloggers and commentators speculating about the future of the first sale doctrine in the digital age.

The aforementioned 15 U.S.C. § 1129 from the other answer indeed looks somewhat applicable, but I highly doubt that anyone would agree that a random myfirstname individual, one who is not expressly famous or known by any significant proportion of the population under such name, is somehow intrinsically owned a myfirstname.com domain name, just because they're the first one to file a lawsuit against the present owner that's offering it on sale.

It's possible these first flash sales were just dummy runs to build up anticipation for the next flash sales, which just happen to be during the most significant mobile conference in the world.

Microsoft, while announcing its first fiscal quarter results for 2015, posted a significant increase in the sales of Nokia Lumia smartphones with reaching to the figure of 9.3 million units.

«Apple Inc. is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, according to people familiar with the matter, using one of its older products to help reverse two quarters of sliding sales,» notes the publication.