Sentences with phrase «than sales numbers»

It might have worked in the 1950 and «60s, he says, but service quality is as, or more, important today for consumers than sales numbers.

So the reality is that without co-op (and even that's no guarantee of anything), bookstore shelving is more about a personal sense of validation or ego than sales numbers.

In the end, it is all based on sales rank changes rather than sales numbers, and NovelRank should not be used to dispute hard sales figures from publishers or Amazon.

But this is still a car whose image looms much larger than its sales numbers.

The retort that sneakerheads make is that West's involvement boosts the popularity of Adidas overall, so his role is greater than sales numbers of Yeezy sneakers would prove.

Not exact matches

«With last night's blowout quarter, which had huge China sales and fabulously better than expected numbers for even the much derided iPhone X, that narrative is now gone.»

The sales numbers are staggering — signed contracts in April were 28 percent higher than a year ago, the strongest since 2005, according to RMLS, a real estate data firm.

Goldman Sachs has some thoughts on the matter, saying recently that traders should focus on top - line sales growth rather than on profit numbers.

In terms of data, retail sales numbers in the U.K. came in higher - than - expected, showing an increase of 0.3 percent month - on - month in October.

For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool - worthy numbers: international sales of $ 128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.

At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 2020.

Last year, Rolls - Royce had its second - highest sales numbers ever, delivering more than 4,000 cars to wealthy customers around the world.

But the sales numbers posted by «Advanced Warfare,» which has been a critical hit, were 23 percent lower year over year than those posted by last year's «Call of Duty: Ghosts,» according to Edward Williams of BMO Capital Markets.

While Rahangdale declined to provide specific numbers, he noted that sales were much higher than projected.

(The company, which reports its financial results in euros, says currency fluctuations make its recent sales and profit numbers look worse than they are; it says its 2014 net sales of 14.8 billion euros were actually up 2 % from 2013.)

The number of Hooters locations in the US has dropped by more than 7 % from 2012 to 2016, and sales have stagnated, according to industry reports.

The San Diego Union - Tribune puts the number of California cities and counties that have banned either the sale or cultivation of cannabis at higher than 70 %.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

It's easier to double sales by doubling the amount of an average sale than to double the number of those closed.

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

But the sheer number of disruptive ideas depicted from outfits other than P&G underscores the fact that the $ 78.8 - billion - in - sales company has had so few of them of late.

It says the U.S. economy is weaker than the headline numbers indicate because the sharp recession of 2008 - 2009 has thrown seasonal - adjustment factors out of whack and they are inflating the smoothed, annualized growth numbers for output, employment, income and sales.

«Those are Picasso - like numbers,» said FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives, referring to the iPhone, which contributed $ 23.7 billion in sales, or more than half of the company's $ 42.1 billion in quarterly revenue.

When you run the numbers, it may be more cost - effective to invest in your employees, rather than firing off the poor performers and finding new ones, which, in sales, can be an expensive process that can take months.

Making more than $ 9 million in sales in 2014, the site is used by a number of successful companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce.com, and The New York Times.

The number of the moment is sales, general, and administrative expenses, or SG&A, which at 14.2 % of sales is higher than Centenari wants it to be.

«Most importantly, we help sales development teams increase the number of qualified appointments set by a dramatic amount — in some cases more than 300 percent.

Strategically the sales professional must keep the focus off the offer and create an arena of fairness in mediating discussions about the numbers in a mutually beneficial fashion — one where she does not settle for less than what is desired.

Every time my sales management has assigned sales numbers a little lower than what they think a rep can manage, that number is usually hit — and often exceeded.

«Sales volumes for new - energy vehicles exceeded 700,000 last year, and this number is further expected to increase to more than 2 million in 2020, and to more than 5 million in 2025,» Kevin Li, a senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, told CNBC early this week.

Sure, its numbers were goosed by Amazon's 99 cents promotion, but the fact remains that the pop star's Born This Way became just the 17th album to move more than a million units in its first week in the U.S. since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

Still, while McDonald's sales grew more than expected, the number of people visiting its U.S. restaurants fell in the first quarter.

Yun noted that national sales numbers could weaken more than expected this fall, due to the disruption in the Houston housing market from Hurricane Harvey.

Homebuying has been weaker than expected this spring, as tight supply limits the number of potential sales.

The number of home sales that closed this spring were slightly higher than a year ago, but the lack of listings clearly held the market back.

Marketing needs to be worried about more than lead generation and management, and sales needs to be maniacally focused on «hitting the number.»

Sales of previously owned homes rose more than expected last month, existing home sales increased 1.1 percent to a four - month high, as buyers remain undeterred by the limited number of properties available on the maSales of previously owned homes rose more than expected last month, existing home sales increased 1.1 percent to a four - month high, as buyers remain undeterred by the limited number of properties available on the masales increased 1.1 percent to a four - month high, as buyers remain undeterred by the limited number of properties available on the market.

A weaker than expected number after disappointing retail sales this week would lead to a safe haven bid.

The number of homes for sale did increase slightly in February, which always happens as the busy spring market approaches, but supply is still down more than 8 percent from a year ago; supply is up on the high end and far lower on the low end of the market.

Prime Day sales grew by more than 60 percent from the same 30 - hour window in 2016, with a «record number» of Prime members shopping across 13 countries, Amazon said.

Real quick, looks like we have a gain over October and a better - than - expected number overall for November Retail Sales.

If the underwriters sell more shares than the total number set forth in the table above, the underwriters have an option to buy up to an additional shares from us and the selling stockholders to cover such sales.

Just two of the past 20 years saw ticket sales lower than the number of tickets sold in 2015 (2011 and 2014).

The underwriters have an option to buy up to an additional shares to cover sales by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than the total number set forth in the table above.

It should understand consumer demand and competition in the US better and have more chances of improving sales within the US through increase in the number of stores than it does in Canada.

The underwriters will have an option to buy up to an additional shares of our common stock from us to cover sales by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than the total number set forth in the table above.

New home sales volume, while up from last month, is still off the March highs and lower than even February numbers.

If the sale happens at these numbers, MSD and TFC will have made a profit of almost $ 90 million on their 2016 investment after paying a 5 - percent fee to Grand Central and still own more than 500,000 square feet of air rights.

The numbers come one day after the local real estate board in Calgary, which was expected to be a hot spot in the country for housing sales this year, said sales fell by more than 2 per cent compared to last March.

The number of overseas property sales in Cyprus has risen by more than half in the year to July 2015 from 92 sales to 146, the latest official figures show.