Sentences with phrase «poor sales results»

This can lead to challenges such as hiring too many B and C players, an inconsistent approach to selling across the team, weak sales output and, ultimately, poor sales results.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Hibbett Sporting (hibb) also reported poor results on Friday, while Dick's Sporting Goods (dks) underwhelmed investors with a tiny sales increase earlier this week.

Western Australia experienced yet another horror month for new car sales, with the prospect of a last - minute turnaround to bring the year on par with 2015's poor result looking very unlikely.

In China, the situation has grown so poor for foreign IT that Cisco, in its latest quarterly results announced two weeks ago, said China sales dropped by 19 %.

The National Retail Federation said the November result supported its expectation for an overall 4.1 percent jump in holiday season sales - confirming its conclusion that the poor Black Friday showing was a result of a shift in shopping patterns rather than a sign of weakness.

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

A number of U.S. retail and restaurant companies have lamented poor winter weather and aggressive discounts, resulting in fewer store visits and lower sales.

Don't assume that every inbound sales lead is really a «good» lead — because if you just pass on all of your leads to the sales team without any pre-qualifying work, you're going to overwhelm your sales people with too many poor quality leads — resulting in fewer sales overall.

Not surprisingly, as a result, their brand has suffered tremendously, with poor sales, dropped stocks, and a severely damaged reputation.

Chrysler Corp. has sold its 50 percent ownership stake in Alfa Romeo Distributors of North America, an Orlando company that acts as the national distributor for the Italian automaker.The decision was a result of Alfa Romeo's sluggish sales performance in United States, where a recession has weakened consumer confidence.That poor performance prompted Alfa Romeo to lay off 23 employees Friday from the Orlando distributorship, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

Volkswagen has silently discontinued sales of the Passat in India as a result of poor sales performance.

Luckily, the members of the focus group not only avoided the poor sales that would have resulted from a poorly - titled book, but they suggested a better title, one that expressed what they felt the book was all about, i.e., Customers for Life..

Poor book formatting will make your book hard to read and could result in bad reviews or poor saPoor book formatting will make your book hard to read and could result in bad reviews or poor sapoor sales.

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As a result of the poor NOOK sales, B&N expects NOOK Media revenues of about $ 3 billion and NOOK segment to run a loss.

He says that one of the most important dominoes to watch in the fourth quarter are B&N's results, which, if poor, could result in more store closings which would hurt the sales performance of the Big Six.

CEO Brian Cornell highlighted the sales drop during an earnings call where he suggested the decline was due to a lack of «newness» and «innovation» and blamed poor Apple sales for Target's disappointing Q2 earnings results.

The report also stated that the manufacturing plant in China run by ODM Quanta responsible for the PlayBook has had job cuts in the last few days as a result of the poor sales of the tablet, further suggesting that the statement was meant to head off any investor concern about short - term performance.

«In light of the sales facts it is, in my view, a mistaken and absolutely untenable position to claim that PC sales are under pressure because of the iPad when there are so many other factors that are contributing to the poor results.»

Getting bad reviews because your book looks amateur is un-cool, and it can result in poor sales... very un-cool.

«In light of those sales facts it is, in my view, a mistaken and absolutely untenable position to claim that PC sales are under pressure because of the iPad when there are so many other factors that are contributing to the poor results.»

«In light of the sales facts it is, in my view, a mistaken and absolutely untenable position to claim that PC sales are under pressure because of the iPad when there are so many other factors that are contributing to poor results.»

Short sales are occurring with increasing frequency as a result of the poor economy and shrinking home values.

[Plus, I believe this growth trajectory confirms management's assertion a poor FY - 2017 result will prove nothing more than a timing issue, in terms of an eventual sales payoff].

This bears out in some of the poor holiday sales results.

Not too shabby for a system the internet was pretty much crying the death knolls of a week or so ago thanks to the poor November sales results.

The Too Human developer had sought $ 58 million in damages from Epic after it claimed the Gears of War studio had failed to provide enough support in its use of Unreal Engine 3, and said this resulted in disappointing sales and a poor critical reception.

The choice of prioritizing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time resulted in poor sales of the game, and it became long forgotten by most gamers.

Nintendo may have not had the best year in 2013 with many fans giving up on the company due to its lack of games, thus resulting in poor sales and negative feedback.

And of course, if one episode is of a poor quality, it can have a massive impact on future sales, and result in a lower attach rate on subsequent episodes.

Suffering from mediocre reviews, poor marketing, and a general lack of interest, Agents of Mayhem was a sales disappointment and resulted in Deep Silver laying off part of Volition's workforce.

Certainly poor Wii U sales resulting from Nintendo's incompetent marketing are part of the problem, as are terrible decisions by third party publishers.

The greatest irony is that the American and PAL versions of Super Metroid sold well as a result of aggressive marketing by Nintendo that was spurred on by the game's poor sales in Japan.

Nikkei reports that Apple plans to reduce iPhone X production from 40 million units in the first three months of the year to no less than 20 million units, mostly as a result of poor sales in top markets like Europe, the US, and China.

The modular design seemed like a good idea at the time, but the public did not care for it and that resulted in poor sales.

Overselling oneself, exaggerating accomplishments, or underselling as a result of poor sales skills.

They already tried 3 %, at $ 100,000 less, in a better market with poorer results and no sale.

Some real estate sales representatives have been shown to have poor characters, and as the result, have earned poor reputations.