Sentences with phrase «key holiday quarter»

Overall sales dipped 3.2 percent in the key holiday quarter compared to a year earlier to 76.1 million units.

The company, in November, raised its 2017 earnings and same - store sales forecasts, likely reflecting higher sales in the key holiday quarter.

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Video - game publisher Electronic Arts's revenue forecast for the key holiday - shopping quarter was slightly below analysts» estimates, amid expectations of heavy competition from other games releasing around the same time.

The company also guided lower for its fourth - quarter sales, projecting a range between $ 600 million and $ 650 million for its key holiday season.

But in the quarter ending Dec. 31, which included the key holiday season, handbags costing $ 400 or more generated 50 % of sales, up 20 percentage points from a year earlier.

Lacking attractive new devices and hampered by manufacturing problems, Fitbit sold only 6.5 million trackers in the key fourth quarter holiday season last year, a 21 % drop from the same period a year earlier, according to International Data Corp..

The U.S. tech giant notified suppliers that it had decided to cut the first - quarter production target to around 20 million units, in light of slower - than - expected sales in the year - end holiday shopping season in key markets such as Europe, the U.S. and China.

J. C. Penney's efforts to prune items that didn't sell to focus on fashions customers crave the most this holiday season appears to have paid off as the retailer reported on Friday a slight uptick in a key industry measure the past quarter.

The key quarter, pointed out by the research, will be towards the 2011 holiday season, incorporating Thanksgiving and Christmas, which will be the true test for tablets across the market share spectrum.

They positively pulverized quad - and octa - core Android rivals in a number of key performance tests, and they pushed Apple's iPhone sales to an all - time high in the holiday quarter.