Sentences with phrase «holiday periods which»

Other busy times of the year include the long Easter holiday weekend and during the other three School holiday periods which fall in the middle of April, mid-July and late September / Early October.

In the four days of trading in the final week of the year 40.94 tonnes were withdrawn — suggesting around 50 tonnes for a full 5 - day week including Jan 1st — which is pretty much on par with other recent weekly withdrawal figures despite any minor disruption from the big Christian Christmas holiday period which has little, but possibly some very minor, impact on Chinese domestic trade.

Another pleasant surprise is Project Cars, which faces tough competition in the pile up of driving games being released this holiday period which includes Driveclub, Forza Horizon 2, The Crew, and F1 2014.

The holiday period which takes in Christmas time and New Year Eve usually sees most of the executive and business clientele leave to spend the holidays with their families and the Park Regis Concierge Apartments then become well - priced accommodation for tourists and travellers to Sydney who want to be on the lower north shore during festivities of the New Year period in Sydney.

Google and Amazon likely lost money on their smart speaker sales over the holiday period which saw aggressive discounts being attached to both the Home and Echo - series devices, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing analysts of IHS Markit and IDC.

Not exact matches

The strength of Hasbro's results contradict a narrative that has formed in the retail sector in which many executives have lamented that spending during the holiday season has focused on two periods of time: the Thanksgiving / Black Friday holiday weekend and the final week before Christmas.

If you ask, your carrier may have some flexibility around pick - up times, which can be a boon during high - volume periods such as the holidays, he says.

Google and Amazon frequently offer discounts for their respective Home Mini and Echo Dot devices — typically around $ 20 off — and during the holiday period, retailer Walmart offered a $ 25 voucher for the Google Home Mini, which means that consumers could essentially buy the device for $ 4.

There are no blackout dates for using rewards points toward hotel nights, which means that using them during peak holiday travel or other busy periods can exponentially increase their value!

This restriction takes place during the Passover holiday, which is an 8 - day period during the spring season.

They must occur during C bands, which are time periods nominated by the regulator (the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)-RRB- as suitable for children's viewing, and include 7.00 - 8.30 am and 4.00 - 8.30 pm on Monday to Friday and 7 am to 8.30 pm on Saturday, Sunday and school holidays [4].

The only reason he plays right now is because Klopp decided to rotate his guys around the congestive holiday period (which btw backfired big time last week for him against Everton).

«The other option is to wait for after the holidays and not get paid for that period of time which I'm more than happy to do.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

Sizes vary from shop to shop and remember that you may have also put on a little weight over the Christmas period too, which brings you to your next decision — is it worth buying it if you plan to lose your holiday weight?!

Media Create reports over 71 000 units sold for the Nintendo 3DS this week, which is a pretty solid result, especially now that the holiday period has begun.

As you can see, that's a rather impressive turnaround for Nintendo this Fiscal Year, and that's without the holiday period, which is its strongest one.

During that week, Software sales topped 1 900 000 units, and Hardware sales topped 344 000 units, which is 132.18 % and 134.04 % of Week 50 sales respectively: another noticeable increase quite obviously attributed to the holiday period.

We spend the afternoon trying to find stretches of empty road, which ain't easy in the middle of the summer holiday period.

That announcement came as Pearson announced a claimed strong holiday sales for its Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle tablets, which held the top four spots on the Amazon worldwide best seller charts during the period.

The NOOK segment, which makes up the company's digital business — including readers, digital content and accessories — had revenues of $ 311 million for the holiday period, decreasing 12.6 % as compared to a year ago.

CIRP said about half of the new Prime members in 2015 signed up during the last three months of the year, which includes the holiday shopping period.

Store revenue over the recent holiday period was down 11 % on the previous year, however the company still made $ 317 million in earnings last year, more than enough, according to Klipper, to offset losses from the Nook ereader section of the company, which spends heavily on advertising and new technology.

This information comes to us from Animocas data which watches US Google Play Traffic by device, and shows that during that holiday period more people were browsing the Play Store from the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 than any other Android tablet in the region.

Orange won't charge customers if no data is actually used when travelling, it's only there as a safety net to be used when the occasion arises — ideal for the start of the summer holiday period, of which we are now apparently in.

«These findings are striking because they come after a period from mid-2011 into the autumn in which there was not much change in the ownership of tablets and e-book readers... as the holiday gift - giving season approached, the marketplace for both devices dramatically shifted.»

Revenue in the Nook division, which includes digital content and devices, was $ 125 million, a 60.5 percent drop compared with the nine - week holiday period a year earlier.

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

The NOOK segment, which consists of the company's digital business (including Readers, digital content and accessories), had revenues of $ 311 million for the nine - week holiday period, decreasing 12.6 % as compared to a year ago.

There are no blackout dates for using rewards points toward hotel nights, which means that using them during peak holiday travel or other busy periods can exponentially increase their value!

There's no blackout period — industry jargon for a period when you can't redeem points, which typically goes into effect around the holiday season — and no cap to the amount of points you can earn.

And it is a season: not just one holiday, but a joyous period in which every day is special.

There are no additional fees to set this up; however, do keep in mind there's a processing period of four business days (which excludes weekends and national holidays) before you can apply for another loan.

Trading shall cease at the end of the designated settlement period on the Business Day (a trading day which is not a public holiday in England and Wales) immediately preceding:

This price is known as the stop price, and is usually initiated by investors leaving for holidays, entering a situation where they are unable to monitor their portfolio for an extended period of time, or trading in volatile assets, such as cryptocurrencies, which could take an adverse turn overnight.

You are looking at potentially more than $ 2B worth of consumer spending on the PS4 and Xbox One around this holiday period, of which could have potentially been spent on other goods and services.

To put this in context, the index stood at just 72.4 during the same period in 2013, a year in which holiday sales increased by 3.8 percent.

If the hotels and resorts forecast they can see they may have periods of very low demand they then contact the Cairns Holiday Specialists and offer holiday apartments and resort rooms to us at extra special discounted rates which we immediately post on our websites for our guests to view or we send out a Flash Sale newsletter to our VIP Holiday Club Members for the holiday deals that are so cheap we can not even publish them on our holiday websites.

During school holiday periods and special holidays like Australia Day we often run group matches, which are always lots of fun, so check the What's On guide for details.

If you are planning more than two trips this year, then we recommend booking your lupus travel insurance as part of an annual multi-trip policy, which covers all your holidays for a 365 day period from the policy starting date.

There are no blackout dates for use of rewards points toward hotel nights, which means that using them during peak holiday travel or other busy periods can exponentially increase their value!

«The weather in the UK looks set to be mild over the holiday period, which should help avoid travel disruption, but the roads will be exceptionally busy so customers should allow extra time to get to their departure port and check for line closures and engineering work if using public transport.»

If you want to have a more relaxing holiday option which will better fit into your holiday time period I suggest you check out the cost to fly to Uluru or Alice Springs, rent a vehicle and spend close to 2 weeks exploring the Uluru / Alice Springs area in a more relaxed manner as detailed in my article More Than Uluru: The Best Kept Secrets of Central Australia and you can see some great photos and stories of the area in TOP 7 Central Australian RED HOT Spots once you're done with Uluru!

«We are enjoying a steadily growing footfall from Chinese tour groups, which is particularly noticeable around key Chinese holiday periods, such as Chinese New Year and national holidays.

It is not uncommon for executive travel to Sydney to slow some - what over the Christmas and New Year period - however the serviced apartment hotels which provide a home for corporate travellers to Sydney, still continue to operate over the holiday season.

There are several family parks which are situated virtually right on the beach and close to all of the islands attractions these parks are obviously very popular so it is a good idea to book well in advance especially during main holiday periods.

«According to the complaint, defendants» Class Period statements were materially false and misleading because they failed to disclose and misrepresented the following adverse facts which were known to or recklessly disregarded by defendants: (a) Battlefield 4 was riddled with bugs and multiple other problems, including downloadable content that allowed players access to more levels of the game, a myriad of connectivity issues, server limitations, lost data and repeated sudden crashes, among other things; (b) as a result, Electronic Arts would not achieve a successful holiday season 2013 rollout of Battlefield 4; (c) the performance of the Electronic Arts unit publishing Battlefield 4 was so deficient that all other projects that unit was involved in had to be put on hold to permit it to focus its efforts on fixing Battlefield 4;»

- 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 company earned $ 1.7 billion, which it partly attributed to an «outperformance of strong holiday lineup» that included Grand Theft Auto V. Take - Two Interactive took in $ 2.4 billion in revenue during the same period the previous year.

This holiday period has certainly given me the opportunity to get fully up to date on GameSetLinks, and there's actually a couple more sets of archives to spool out after this one, which was collected and chemically preserved late last week.