Sentences with phrase «recent years sales»

- While the art market may be smaller — Art Basel Miami Beach has about 800 galleries participating, a 20 % drop from recent years Sales figures are increasing in size — Sotheby's and Christie's New York Contemporary evening sales last week fetched $ 423.9 million, a 40 % increase from May 2009.

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But, in recent years, chatbots, or «bots» for short, have morphed into exceptionally intelligent computer programs able to assist companies with essential tasks ranging from marketing and human resources functions to sales efforts.

About half of Splunk's data analytics software sales derive from its security business, which has seen a growth spurt in recent years.

The recent strength in retail sales, for example, could be driven by extra cash in consumers» pockets from the Canada Child Benefit rolled out last year.

In recent years, however, Noise Solutions has adopted a much more targeted and directed approach to growth, a strategy that depends on a lot of advance work and then a direct sales effort.

We first scouted out industries with great growth potential and solid sales figures from recent years before culling out any industry with a highly prohibitive barrier to entry, be it cost, skill set, or market saturation.

The industry has roughly been posting flat sales in recent years as consumers are favoring the spirits and wine categories.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

Meanwhile, total U.S. beer market sales have been flat in recent years.

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

Nordstrom said its Anniversary Sale this year, which is historically the company's biggest sales event of the year, «performed better than recent trends.»

(Overall sales of PCs, servers, and storage systems were down year over year in the most recent quarter, and Dell's revenue in 2015, pre-merger, was $ 58.1 billion, 6 % lower than in 2012.)

The residential enclave has seen a surge in popularity in recent years, driving the median sale price of a single - family home to $ 1.36 million, up 75 % from five years ago.

According to a recent survey by Standard Media Index, which tracks national ad spending on broadcast and cable, TV upfront sales rose by an average of 5 % in May compared with last year — and cable on average saw a 10 % rise in upfront revenues.

It's an area where Apple has struggled in recent years, with sales down 14 percent year over year last quarter.

Like many business technology companies to have gone public in recent years, including Dropbox and Box, Pivotal is unprofitable, but its sales are increasing.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

A year prior respondents on average said 15 percent of their sales would come from discounts, however in the most recent survey that number jumped to 26 percent.

In recent years, many sectors experienced waves of mergers that gutted regional sales jobs as head offices centralized purchasing.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

Though 2009 proved a bright spot for Gottschalk — Buffett listed her as one of the execs who increased profits despite declining sales in Berkshire's annual report — Pampered Chef's more recent years were bumpy.

In recent years, PINK has become one of the most successful parts of the company, reporting stronger sales than other parts of the store.

One of the biggest reasons agile has been adopted by sales teams in recent years is the availability of new agile technologies.

Amazon has significantly increased the number of U.S. states where it charges sales tax in recent years, though primarily because the expansion of its network of warehouses and fulfillment centers has made it mandatory.

With sales numbers expected to eclipse figures from recent years, every independent retail shop and SMB should be preparing for the home stretch of 2014.

Cloudera recorded $ 261 million in sales for its most recent fiscal year while also losing $ 187 million during the same time period.

Sales have been muddled in recent years and the company is in the process of remaking itself just a few years after it acquired private - label manufacturer Ralcorp for nearly $ 5 billion in early 2013.

But in recent years, the organization has worked to bring its popular cookie sales online, with help from Dell and Visa.

One of the leading motivational speakers in recent years, Ziglar has helped shape the modern vocabulary of sales as much as any other sales expert.

Apple competes with services like Vudu and Amazon's Prime in the market for digital video rentals and sales, with Apple's share of that market declining in recent years amid increased competition.

In its first year, Sassoon - labeled products produced $ 10 million in sales, and they have climbed ever since, helped in large part in recent years by an interesting turn of events.

(In recent years, in fact, Teach Away has established sales offices in New York City, Australia, Edinburgh, China, and Vancouver, with another planned for Abu Dhabi.)

In recent years, there have been claims that movie ticket sales would decline as more people opt for watching at home via streaming.

After all, the stock — despite the recent selloff driven by disappointing sales of the new iPhone 8 — has surged 33 % this year, adding $ 200 billion in value, and prompting predictions that the Colossus of Cupertino will soon boast the world's first $ 1 trillion market cap.

«This slowdown has been most notable in the chocolate category (about 75 percent of Hershey's sales), which has seen higher price elasticity and less significant innovation in recent years.»

According to a recent study by Bain & Company, this fusion boosted sales of luxury goods by 5 % last year, amounting to about $ 325 billion, notes The New York Times.

In its most recent quarter, sales fell 16 %, while its quarterly loss — the 11th in a row — swelled to $ 161.1 million from a loss of $ 135.9 million a year ago.

Non-commodity exports and manufacturing sales crested at the start of the year and then tumbled through April, according to Statistics Canada's most recent numbers.

With Bud and Miller sales cooling, Big Beverage inked at least 15 deals to buy craft beer makers in recent years.

Online wine sales have taken off in recent years as customers discover the convenience of home delivery.

And not coincidentally, Mattel's revenue has slipped in recent years: In its last fiscal year, sales came in at $ 5.5 billion, 14 % less than in 2012.

But sales of printing supplies have been falling over the past year, and in the most recent quarter, sales shrunk 12 % to $ 2.8 billion.

In recent years, the industry has attracted competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, the latter of which has diversified into toys and games in order to prop flagging book sales.

Many early entrants fizzled in recent years, as big retailers such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Saks fought back with their own flash sales.

That cash haul is nothing to shake a stick at — but review vouchers have been cashed in at far higher prices in recent years (including United Therapeutics» staggering $ 350 million sale of one to AbbVie).

But recent trade and lending data, and Lunar New Year sales have come in better than expected.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

Last week, Neiman reported comparable sales for its most recent full year grew 3.9 % and that online sales had risen to 26.3 % of sales, putting far ahead of department store rivals like Nordstrom (JWN) and Macy's (M).

But in recent years, more than half its annual revenues of about $ 9 billion have come from the sale of subscriptions to Bloomberg services outside the U.S.. Its 19,000 employees work in more than 190 offices around the world.

In its most recent quarter alone, it lost $ 748 million, its worst performance in years as comparable sales, which exclude the impact of stores closed in the preceding year.