Sentences with phrase «sales from higher»

Because print is still required, there is an infrastructure that each publisher must maintain and so cheap eBooks will pull away sales from higher margin print titles.

In fact, my dress and choker were bought in sales from high street shops.

I don't know if there is much domination in the iPad space as ipads continue to fall off a cliff in sales from their highs.

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The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

They contended that the school used high - pressure sales tactics to enroll students in the costly classes, promised extensive one - on - one instruction that did not materialize and employed «mentors» who at times recommended investments from which they stood to profit.

Industrial Systems segment sales in the quarter were $ 234 million, 15 % higher from a year ago.

The site may sell more even with lower conversion, but, moving forward, Bonobos should complement its PR strategy by going after more traffic from Google and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) searches, which typically converts to sales at a higher rate than referring - site traffic.

The New York City - based company is also benefiting from higher sales at duty - free stores and a booming skin - care products business in South Asia and China.

Sales of records came in at of 9.2 million in 2014, a 52 percent rise from the year before, marking the highest level since SoundScan started tracking the data in 1991.

«Increased commodity prices, coupled with a focus on operating efficiently and strengthening our portfolio, resulted in higher earnings and the highest quarterly cash flow from operations and asset sales since 2014,» Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

The company's results got a boost from higher sales of prescription drugs at its stores, among other factors.

While it may feel like you're putting profits in the back seat, a higher purpose will serve you well and will ultimately drive sales and profits from those who believe in you.

Trying to do it all will soon see you doing low - level activities that pull you away you from making sales, doing projects for your high - end clients and doing the things that help keep the business growing.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

In fact, the number of written prescriptions is so high that Wall Street analysts are feeling compelled to boost their sales projections, predicting that Dupixent will bring in anywhere from $ 215 million to $ 320 million this year.

Left to their own devices, the 26 analysts I've heard from so far — 16 Wall Street professionals (in blue) and 10 independents (in green)-- have submitted estimates for last quarter's sales with a range greater than I've ever seen for an Apple (aapl) product: from a low of 3.1 million to a high 10.5 million.

Even if your conversion rate is high, if the ultimate return from those conversions is low, you could be spending more for sales leads than you could ever hope to earn from those leads.

Sales of high rise dwellings have dropped over 30 % year over year from an eight - month period between January and August 2013, in comparison to the same time frame in 2012.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled to the state Capitol in Tallahassee this week to push lawmakers to ban the sale of all military - style guns like the AR - 15.

For one, political instability has made maintaining employment in the oil industry more important than keeping government revenues from oil sales high.

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FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

And when you look at Queen Anne from the high - rise of this conference room, you can see this landscape of hundreds of houses, and we said: «Every other real - estate site focuses on what's for sale.

In the meanwhile, myriad high - profile news stories — from Industry Minister Tony Clement overruling the CRTC's ruling that Windmobile violated foreign ownership guidelines to the government's decision to block the sale of Potash Corp. to BHP Billiton — made clear why Canada's foreign investment guidelines must be updated.

U.S. retailers posted weaker than expected sales in December, the Monster job index declined from last month's highs and unemployment claims continued their steady trend lower.

Private house sales rose 13.4 per cent in Western Australia in the December quarter, the highest three - month achievement in more than a decade, new figures from the Housing Industry Association have revealed.

Weary industry watchers might be inclined to dismiss 4K / UHD — which features four times the resolution of regular 1080p high definition — as just the latest effort from manufacturers to kickstart flagging TV sales.

In Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic rank.

The study also found a seven percent uptick in sales due to higher conversion rates caused by better service from associates.

«We estimate incremental profits generated from higher iPhone 8 sales could outweigh additional costs, achieving gross profit accretion of $ 1.3 bn, despite 1.8 pts of margin % dilution,» the analysts wrote in the note.

Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Research from the University of California found that motivated employees were 31 percent more productive, had 37 percent higher sales and were three times more creative than demotivated employees.

That includes home construction, which is positive as housing inventories fell to around 22 months of sales in October, from nearly 50 % higher in early 2015, says Gavekal Research.

Foreign sales of U.S. petroleum grew a whopping 6 % from September, pushing overall exports to $ 192.7 billion, their highest dollar - value ever.

«It's definitely pricey from Oracle's perspective, but it's understandable and it's justifiable especially in this environment, when we've seen software - as - a-service companies go as high as 10, 11, 12 times sales,» said Morningstar analyst Rodney Nelson.

Conventional wisdom says that new clients come from high - cost sales and marketing, like cold - calling, advertising, and email blasts.

While Goodman believes that Apple Watch sales were «in the high - four - millions» in Apple's first fiscal quarter, other analysts have pegged the company's sales anywhere from 10.5 million to 3.1 million.

From the airlines» perspective, Cancun flights are good business because of their lower costs, high passenger counts and heavy sales of booze, said Mark Drusch, a consultant and former airline executive.

Still, the Silk Road fire sale exposed the feds to ridicule from cryptocurrency devotees — and in an era of strained budgets, the pressure to sell high is great.

If you administered truth serum to every company employee (aside from salespeople) and then asked them to describe the sales department, you'd likely hear words like «pushy,» «high maintenance,» «lazy» and «a bunch of prima donnas.»

«For the remainder of 2014 we will focus on our multi-layered growth strategy, which incorporates same - store sales growth, leverage from higher sales, deployment of free cash flow, increasing royalty revenues and new drive - in development to build shareholder value,» Sonic CEO Cliff Hudson said in a statement.

In fact some research links growth in the so - called «petrodollars» (proceeds from energy sales) to higher treasury purchases.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

Additionally, sales of higher - end smartwatch from Apple and Samsung picked up, with the iPhone maker seeing a 13 % gain and its Korean rival a 38 % jump.

NRF's forecast follows those from Deloitte and AlixPartners, which call for holiday retail sales increasing between 3.8 and 4.5 percent, thanks to higher online spending and a tightening labor market.

As chains like Red Robin compete for ever - dwindling market share and sales, novelty and higher - margin items like boozy milkshakes might be what sets one chain apart from another.

The latest figures on tax revenues from the Colorado Department of Revenue hit a new high in the month of August, with recreational sales totaling about $ 34.1 million, compared to $ 29.3 million the previous month.

Nintendo faces an uphill battle in the coming year, with fierce competition from the newly - released Sony Playstation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One systems, which both saw high sales during the holidays and are technologically superior.

About eight years ago, Simon became convinced that his company would have tremendous growth potential if it could reorient its sales of high - priced equipment away from the semiconductor industry and toward the developing high - definition and flat - screen - display markets.

Precision shares, though, are off nearly 30 % from their all - time high, as the company's earnings have been hit by weakness in the oil and gas sector, where the majority of the company's non-aerospace sales come from.