Sentences with phrase «new order levels»

Staff recruitment was linked to rising new order levels and, in some cases, improved confidence regarding business outlook.

Survey respondents cited greater new order levels and, in some cases, renewed efforts to boost operating capacity at their plants.

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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.

With a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vembu.

«In order to sustain prices at these elevated levels, you need a continuous supply of new buyers willing to take that mortgage debt, and [able to] get it cheaply,» he says.

As McKinsey has noted, in order to achieve a change of scale at requisite speed, particularly in a digital setting, an organization today needs to start by realigning its technology infrastructure to handle the new levels of customer interactions that will come.

Cindy T. White, 41, of Slidell, Louisiana, took the phrase «fake it «till you make it» to new levels in 2015 when she assumed the identity of another woman in order to land a job as a human resources manager, PayScale reports.»

PMI data, released on a monthly basis, track factors such as output, new orders, stock levels, employment and prices across the manufacturing, construction, and retail and service sectors.

After reviewing the revised peer group director compensation data in June 2009, the committee 1) set pay for the new non-executive Chairman of the Board, 2) increased the value of the annual equity award from $ 145,000 to $ 175,000, since the previous level of compensation was deemed below the market median, and 3) changed the equity grant vehicle from 100 % restricted stock units (RSUs) to 50 % RSUs and 50 % outperformance stock units (OSUs) in order to more closely align with the equity package that Intel executives receive.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

At a high level, these KPIs would include comparing the primary KPIs of number of sessions, orders and therefore conversion rate between new and returning customers.

«Output, new orders and employment levels all rebounded in June, suggesting that manufacturers are starting to experience a turnaround after the declines seen earlier in the year.

The new order index may well register similar cooler readings for a few more months as customer inventories (for the second month now) are reported to be on the «too high» side of desired levels.

Sentiment among corporations remained upbeat as well, with impressive levels of new orders continuing in March's Institute for Supply Management purchasing managers» index (PMI) for manufacturing.

The best leading indicator within the report (new orders) has certainly cooled from higher levels a few months ago, but signals the continuation of the expansion.

Although job creation in the services sector expanded to its highest level in 19 months, new orders registered the slowest growth since August 2016.

Selling organizations today must have a robust deep understanding of the new social buyer persona in order to achieve the level of engagement desired by both the seller and the buyer.

The non-manufacturing PMI, which tracks construction and mining as well as services, rose to its highest level since 2004, and while the PMI covering manufacturing dipped slightly from the previous month's 13 - year high, it continued to indicate robust expansion, with particular strength in new orders.

The headline ISM composite indexes for both manufacturing and services remained upbeat (though down from October's levels), with new orders and business activity particularly strong subcomponents of the respective surveys.

In light of this, it is not enough for government bodies and policies to be more accepting of Chinese capital and immigration; a discussion needs to be had at the public level between local communities and newly - immigrated Chinese - Canadians as well in order to facilitate the acceptance and integration of new - comers into our diverse Canadian culture.

In November, measures for employment and new manufacturing orders within a leading business survey reached their highest levels in 17 years, while the composite index itself hit a six - year peak.

Similarly, the ACCI - Westpac composite index of expectations for activity, comprising survey measures of employment, new orders, output and overtime, has recently risen to the highest level in the 35 - year history of the series (Graph 37).

Anything above 50 signals that manufacturing is growing, yet the survey - based index noted that expectations for hiring and new orders declined from their August levels.

«This latest fall in production was made worse by manufacturers cutting into their inventories, as the fall in new orders from Canadian manufacturers has levelled off since September.

The new orders index edged down to -9.2, and the growth rate of orders index fell to -17.5, its lowest level in a year.

The formation of new levels of ordered complexity is on the basis of preceding levels of ordered simplicity.

Unlike the initial Pentecostal revival, the leadership of the New Order refused to organize beyond the local level in the face of this sustained rejection.

On the other hand, if he / she does exist, which I'm convinced he / she does (consider the exquisite mathematical formulas that help to explain the order of the universe — suggesting a higher level of intelligence in its design, or look into a new born's face), the last thing I want to do is go around telling everyone my brain is a computer and there is no such thing as Santa Klaus.

A «specific divine action» is required in order to produce «a new level of being,» one which the natural world can not reach on its own resources.

The great seal of the United States bears two Latin mottos, E pluribus unum and Novus ordo saeclorum (new order of the ages), though even the Virgilian reference of the latter should not blind us to the biblical level of meaning that it also carries.

Thus he is able to pronounce judgment on the existing order, threatening destruction of every order which resists the pressure of a higher level of community, and holding out the promise of a glorious new age to all who are faithful to this demand.

Because there is an internal relatedness of the higher - level order and the constituent orders, there can be an emergence of new properties.

This is because there can be no real increase in complexity unless there is a new order brought about at the higher level.

In order to match the new curve of Time, Christianity is led to discover the values of this world below the level of God, while Humanism finds room for a God above the level of this world.

He was deeply concerned that Christians come to know, to love, and to understand one another at a new level in order that the Holy Spirit might lead all to unity in his own good time.

Speaking more realistically, the environment into which the biosphere flooded was already a hierarchical assembly of subassemblies, each level of which was endowed with an order and irreversibility that prevented the whole edifice from constantly sinking back into complete chaos.10 In such a hierarchical framework the initial appearance of a new and higher level always has to be a unique event.

In fact there must be a consistency and predictability at the lower level in order for the emergent pattern, the new integrating reality, to appear and to function.

Next week I'm going to a new nutritionist that I've been recommended, in order to check my thyroids levels, and also»cause I'm afraid of not having enough nutrients or vitamins «cause the new diet for the bowel syndrome that my digestive system doctor has ordered me is pretty strict and I'm afraid it might lack some things.

Of course you'll find some comparable actions to take with keeping your new equipment in correct working order which includes the diverse ways to check the compressor parts and oils levels.

The Executive Summary of that August 2012 report claims that the duopoly, through tactics such as «price discrimination, shopper docket schemes, store saturation and over-sized store strategies [building huge supermarkets in small local markets in order to drive out existing competition and prevent new market entrants]», is «crowding out all competition [and] rapidly reducing the choices in shopping format, brands, locally - derived products and service levels».

Vincenzo Montella needs key players to be signed to new contracts and for reinforcements to arrive in order to push the club on to the next level and break back into the top three.

Our new coach, Dan Ryan, has really instilled confidence in each member of the squad to go out and perform so, on a personal level, I'm looking forward to challenging our senior players for a place on court, but ultimately just challenging the girls around me in order for us to be in the best position to win the competition.»

Maybe on the high school level, you could put together an ad campaign of photographs of ridiculously sexy people saying their biggest turn - off is a picky eater, in order to kick start the process of obtaining that adult realization that you want to be seen as the kind of person who tries new things.

As our regular readers know, Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom is moving toward a new, state - level model in order to bring BIC to high - need districts in several states.

But in a carefully worded statement released Monday, Cuomo added that he would continue to oppose tax increases on the state level in order to keep New York competitive with other states.

In the non-manufacturing sub-sectors the report turns largely positive as business activity and new orders are shown growing at faster rate, level of employment unchanged and raw materials inventories growing from contraction.

CBN Manufacturing PMI Index for the month of December 2015 shows production level and new orders are growing at a slower rate, raw material inventories (unused raw materials) increasing at a faster rate, supplier delivery time declining at a faster rate, and employment level decreasing at a slower rate.

I would add that further complicating matters is the likelihood that Scotland's credit rating would be lower than that of the United Kingdom, which would make it more expensive for the new government to borrow in order to provide an equivalent level of public services, a point made by Prof Iain McLean.