Sentences with phrase «less sales by»

Lower consumer spending means less sales by U.S. and foreign manufacturers — especially those in countries whose currency is rising against the dollar (e.g., Japan).

Not exact matches

Company Restaurant profit («Restaurant profit») is defined as Company sales less expenses incurred directly by our Company - owned restaurants in generating Company sales.

On one hand, marijuana sales boosted by consumer enthusiasm and holiday spirit are great for distributors of cannabis, who are already swimming in profits, but come at the expense of general employers who may notice their workforce is inexplicably missing in mass or notably less productive on April 20.

Through sharing her experiences and increasing awareness, West wants to be noted less for her race and more for her achievements — from 2005 to 2006, XynoMedia has increased revenue by 46 percent, projecting 2006 sales to reach $ 1 million to $ 2 million.

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But if you're looking to pay less for a product that's available now, there are a variety of light - based alarm clocks for sale on Amazon, including the sunrise alarm clock by Mosche ($ 32.99) and the sunrise simulation snooze alarm clock by totobay ($ 27.99).

The second conclusion is this: my guess is that, outside the sales field (which attracts people who are motivated by incentive pay), the percentage of people who find bonuses an incentive to change their day - to - day behavior is less than 10 %.

We calculate free cash flow as the sum of net cash provided by operating activities and net cash provided by the sale of revenue earning equipment and operating property and equipment, collections on direct finance leases and other cash inflows from investing activities, less purchases of property and revenue earning equipment.

In a recent survey of 1,000 public companies by ShareData, a Silicon Valley - based supplier of employee - stock - plan software and services, 74 % of the companies with less than $ 50 million in sales, and 68 % of those with fewer than 100 employees, offered stock - option plans to all employees.

Right now, Steve Madden generates less than 10 % of its sales from outside the U.S., but its international business is growing by 20 % a year.

Average growth rates tell a more dramatic tale; here the best - financed companies at start - up pulled far ahead, expanding sales by 2,074 % in five years, nearly 60 % faster than the «less than $ 1,000» set and 82 % faster than the «$ 20,000 or less» group as a whole.

A group of six publishers — including Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Meredith, News Corp., Rogers Communications, and Time Inc. (now owned by Meredith)-- created Next Issue Media in 2009 and debuted the Texture service in 2012 as a way to increase sales at a time when people are reading less news in print publications.

So if your business is tiny (less than $ 1 million in revenue), unprofitable, or just barely scraping by, it is not (yet) a candidate for sale to an ESOP.

Its U.S. sales were up a staggering 23 % last year, driven by newly aggressive advertising and, perhaps, neophyte drinkers» desire for lighter, less challenging whiskey.

By working with designers, Spurlock has cut her sales cycle to three months or less.

Shaikh's strategy: compensate for his clients spending less by driving his sales department to be more aggressive and stepping up new customer recruitment.

TORONTO — Housing sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down by less than one per cent in June compared with the same month a year ago, while the average selling price was up by 4.7 per cent at $ 531,374, according to a report by Toronto Real Estate Board.

Latest economic data from China show both industrial production and retail sales grew by less than expected at the start of the year, pointing to an uncertain outlook.

Apollo said it will pay $ 17.12 per share in cash for ClubCorp, a 30.7 percent premium over its closing price on Friday, but less than the 12 - month high of $ 17.50 the shares reached in February, on investor expectations that a sale process first reported by Reuters in January would be successful.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

The auction, which will increase the capacity available to support smartphones by almost a third, raised nearly 1 billion pounds less than the sale of 4G airwaves in 2013.

Related Book: 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

Sales at restaurants open at least 13 months rose 8.1 percent, but less than the 9.5 percent gain expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.

Ismael has overseen the sale of hundreds of millions in online businesses, including the sale of the popular accounting software, Less Accounting, and the acquisition of Drip by Leadpages.

The bottom - line improvement was fueled primarily by reduced production costs -LRB--13 %) and, to a lesser extent, lower SG&A -LRB--2 %) and R&D -LRB--1 %) outlays, which helped mitigate a 2 % year - over-year dip in sales.

What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

-- Goethe What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

The portfolio turnover measures the trading activity of the fund, which is computed by dividing the lesser of purchases or sales for the year by the monthly average value of the securities owned by the fund during the year.

Conversion of preferred stock occurs automatically and immediately upon the earlier to occur of the closing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement filed covering the offer and sale of common stock in which (i) the aggregate public offering price equals or exceeds $ 25 million, (ii) with respect to the Series F convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series F convertible preferred stock, (iii) with respect to the Series E convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series E convertible preferred stock and (iv) with respect to the Series D convertible preferred stock only, the initial public offering price per share of which is not less than two times the original price of preferred stock, or the date specified by holders of at least 60 % of the then outstanding Series B convertible preferred stock, Series C convertible preferred stock, Series D convertible preferred stock, Series E convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock and Series G convertible preferred stock, provided however, that in the event that the holders of at least 65 % of the then outstanding shares of holders Series G convertible preferred stock, at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series F convertible preferred stock or at least of 65 % of the then outstanding share of Series E convertible preferred stock do not consent or agree to the conversion, conversion shall not be effective to any shares of the relevant series of Series G convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock or Series E convertible preferred stock for which the approval threshold was not achieved.

However, the volume growth was less than half of what the Brewers Association saw in years past when craft beer volume increased by 17.6 % and dollars sales surged by 20 % between 2012 and 2013, according to IRI data.

We multiplied the average sales tax rate for a county by the household income less income tax.

«It's almost a mathematical impossibility to imagine that, out of the thousands of things for sale on a given day, the most attractively priced is the one being sold by a knowledgeable seller (company insiders) to a less - knowledgeable buyer (investors).»

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

If you want a higher volume of leads, you can increase these metrics at the cost of quality or by qualifying a little less and putting some of that responsibility on the sales team.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

«Back in 2010, while I was VP of Sales at uberVu (acquired by HootSuite in 2011), Mike joined our Advisory Board and within a month he had a full grasp of our business and had opened no less than 50 doors for potential clients directly with the CEO of each company.

That's what you want your messages to look like, more or less, after adjusting the tone to sound like they were written by a sales or customer service assistant.

The average price of freehold properties declined by 10.5 per cent from April 2017; the average sale price in the condominium market decreased by less than one per cent compared to the same period.

While we delivered strong sales growth and CCI cost savings, these gains were offset in part by factors that included a less favorable mix of sales and higher benefit costs.

For example, between 1989 and 1996, men's clothing sales in America rose 21 percent to record highs; in the same period, women, taught by 30 years of feminism to look for less superficial routes to a secure identity, spent 10 percent less on clothing.

A leading marketer, manufacturer and seller of organic and natural «better - for - you» products, Hain Celestial has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 1993 when its annual net sales were less than $ 4 million.

There is nothing particularly unusual in that until you realise the wine that has been picked up by TV stations, national newspapers, websites and blogs around the world was not some four figure beauty from Bordeaux, but a rather less glamorous Chilean Malbec on sale in Asda in the UK for # 4.37.

A merger or asset sale would mean one less competitor in an industry dominated by skinny margins and powerful supermarket chains that have screwed down milk prices.

By July 26, 2018 (or July 26, 2019 for manufacturers with less than $ 10 million in annual food sales) manufacturers must comply with the new format.

The trial judge also concluded that (para 285) «the threat of sale by independent retailers to the major supermarket chains constrained Metcash's wholesale pricing decisions» and that the competitive constraint imposed by Franklins was much less than that imposed by the major supermarket chains - these findings of the trial judge were set out by Yates J at para 297 as follows:

The sale of the EU sugar operations is intended to achieve in a more focused, less volatile business, and a solid platform to deliver sustainable long - term growth in Tate & Lyle's speciality food ingredients business, supported by cash generated from its bulk ingredients activities.

«Consumers want to drink less and drink better» — Edrington Americas Distiller Edrington established its own sales, marketing and distribution company in the U.S. this April, and Paul Ross tells BeverageDaily.com why the distiller of The Macallan isn't worried by a general Scotch whisky slowdown, while white spirits have much more scope to premiumise...

Its sales volumes went backwards by about 11 per cent in 2010 as Australians drank less alcohol and beer drinkers switched to premium brands.