Sentences with phrase «slowed sales at»

It must have slowed sales at least a bit.

When a company liquidates merchandise with huge discounts, it often sucks up market share and slows sales at competitors.

Not exact matches

The upheaval at Ford underlines pressure on all three Detroit automakers to prove they can avoid losses as the U.S. market begins to slow from last year's record sales.

It's a slow, painstaking strategy, however, especially at major department stores, where sales staff are hawking so many different brands at various price points.

Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, missing analysts» target with the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

And, on Thursday, new factory activity data is expected to show that the manufacturing sector grew at a slow pace in September, while U.S. automakers are expected to report a 12 % increase in monthly sales year - over-year.

E-commerce will change that at a time when many of the largest American food and beverage makers are already reporting slow sales as they face increased competition from nimble, smaller startups.

Beyond slowing sales, food companies are working with increasingly punishing retailers that are under their own pressure as shoppers pick up their food staples at convenience stores and, increasingly, Amazon.

Shake Shack — which generated nearly $ 79 million in so - called «Shack sales» for the first nine months of 2014 — has grown fairly quickly though sales increases at the company's existing locations have slowed.

«Same - Shack» sales growth — the term the company uses for the change in year - over-year revenue for U.S. company - owned stores opened for at least 24 months — have slowed.

Samsung sold more phones than anyone else, but sales slowed and profits fell last year as other Android - phone manufacturers made similar devices at half the cost and Apple finally released two big - screen iPhone models.

Still, Ullman has stabilized the business, slowed the sales skid, and hired a marketing executive who at least seems to be matching the products to customers» desires.

The risk is that the economy needs monetary policy tightened to cool prices before industrial activity and retail sales regain momentum lost last year as the Chinese economy delivered its slowest full year of growth since 1999, at 7.8 percent.

Though Shake Shack is growing — generating nearly $ 79 million in «Shack sales» for the first nine months of 2014 — there are some worries that growth at stores that have been open for at least two years has slowed.

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.

This is also part of Wal - Mart's broader strategy to strengthen its e-commerce business at a time when its online sales growth is slowing.

Even with a new CEO and management team at the helm, Valeant was forced to lower its 2016 expectations again as it faces slow sales of certain products, greater competition, and new problems including a recall of irritable bowel syndrome drug Librax as well as an FDA warning about one of its manufacturing facilities.

While the comp growth has slowed, Food is at a record 20 % of total sales.

Generally, our objective for a fiscal year is to grow operating expenses at a slower rate than net sales and to grow operating income at a faster rate than net sales.

For his part, McMahon expects to see some profit - taking (meaning the sale of stocks that have risen in price) at the end of the third quarter, and if investors begin cashing out, growth will slow.

Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, foresees sales growth slowing slow next year.

Eventually, home prices will rise again but probably at a pace too slow to cover the huge expenses of owning, including closing costs, insurance, repairs, improvements, net interest costs, real estate taxes, and sales commissions when you move.

Back to school spending boosted sales at Officeworks, although momentum slowed slightly due to the timing of Easter (rather than the impact of Amazon).

While category - wide beer volume sales remain flat across IRI's measured multi-outlet and convenience channels (MULC — which comprise grocery, drug, club, dollar, mass - merchandiser, Walmart and military stores), up just 0.7 percent through May 15, growth in the craft beer category, which was growing double - digits at this time last year, has slowed considerably.

If an economic downturn is broad, «coincident» measures of supply and demand, such as industrial production and real retail sales, then slow at about the same time.

Although home prices and sales within the city of Chicago have been increasing, it's been at a slower rate compared to other major U.S. cities.

Analysts at Oppenheimer tempered their expectations for United Therapeutics Corp's (NASDAQ: UTHR) first - quarter citing the Maryland - based biotech's historic propensity to log seasonally slow sales during the start of the year.

But overall, the U.S. auto industry in 2013 had its best sales year since 2007, and industry executives said on Friday they expect gains to continue in 2014, though at a slower pace.

Scott Sutherland at Wedbush Morgan noted that some investors sold Apple shares last summer, when iPhone sales slowed down as consumers started holding off for the new model.

The evidence is clearest in the hottest markets, like San Francisco, where April home sales were at their slowest pace in six years.

While strengthening demand in these markets may help lessen the negative impact that this additional foreclosure inventory has on home prices, at the very least the influx of distressed inventory for sale will likely act to slow the rate of home price appreciation seen in recent months.

It notes that at the same time of the slowing of seafood sales, landings began to shrink, leading to environmentalists and government regulators to pay close attentions to what was occurring along the coast.

«Customers are eating at home more, but as the economy here is slow to recover, higher sales are tough to come by,» he says.

The price reductions and new private label strategies have helped Woolworths restore same - store sales growth and have turned up the heat on Coles, which has grown at a slower rate than Woolworths for two consecutive quarters.

Coles boss John Durkan expects food and liquor sales to accelerate in the March and June quarters after September quarter same - store sales grew at the slowest pace since 2008.

Food and grocery stores are less reliant on pre-Christmas spending than general merchandise retailers, but the major supermarket chains are taking no chances, particularly after sales in the supermarket sector grew in August at the slowest rate since June 2016.

The actor's post-divorce garage sale at Carriageworks in Sydney last night got off to a slow start but soon revved up when the chariot went up for auction.

the silver lining and the light at the end of this very dark tunnel will be once the money making machine (the deluded one) leaves, no CL money, slow season tickets sales, Satan Kroenke might decide to leave himself and hopefully either the Russian or the Nigerian will buy the team... right now is just a wishful thinking but the possibility is out there

Sales of our healthy homemade muffins and treats were slow at first, but then picked up.

For the last two years, Lexington Homes has captured top honors among suburban home builders in generating traffic at its new residential communities even during the slow sales months of December, January and February.

For the last two years, Lexington Homes has captured top honors among suburban home builders in generating traffic at its new residential communities — even during the slow sales months of December, January and February.

He said consumption taxes, like sales taxes, also have been growing at a very slow rate, another sign the economy is not strong.

While BellTel Lofts» landmark status may be a draw for buyers, sales have slowed in the building and its retail space remains empty, the project's exclusive broker Ilan Bracha, chairman of the Bracha Group at Prudential Douglas Elliman, told The Real Deal today before the building's landmark designation event.

Although I've told you before when I look at your sweet farm house my» heart goes pitter pat» my home is full of finds from garage sales, junk stores & curbs - my kids used to start crying if a slowed down near junk on curb!!!

From the wi - fi being slow at your go - to coffee shop to the sale code not working at your favorite online store, your day is full of incidents that eventually add up to stressors.

Being discouraged could be a reason why Mario Party 9 has been rather slow in the sales department; however, Mario Party 8 was influenced by the still new Nintendo Wii at that time and it drew many peoples» attention.

Even at a time when sales of catalog titles on physical media appear to be the slowest they've been since the advent of DVD, you can't question the wisdom of Universal Studios Home Entertainment revisiting this perennial bestseller once more, this time in a remastered 30th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + Digital HD release five years after its Blu - ray debut.

Though early sales got off to a slow start, the dam burst over the weekend and a few major sales were made for at least three high profile and highly regarded films: Gavin Wiesen's Homework was bought by Fox Searchlight, Drake Doremus» Like Crazy was bought by Paramount, and Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother was bought by The Weinstein Company.

The title's first two weeks at No. 1 were at launch, and as the game releases start to slow down, it's clambered back up in spite of a drop in sales of 41 % week - on - week, according to GamesIndustry.biz.