Sentences with phrase «weak sales at»

The company missed expectations due to weak sales at Dunkin' Donuts in the U.S. and Baskin - Robbins» struggles abroad.

On Wednesday, JCPenney also reported weak sales at stores open for more than one year.

Not exact matches

Still, sales growth at its parent company Yum Brands was weaker than expected, hurt by a chicken shortage at KFC chain restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland.

Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

Sales at building materials and garden equipment suppliers fell 2.2 percent, the weakest reading since May last year.

With the deal, JAB is scooping up a consistent restaurant chain that has posted steady comparable - restaurant sales and rising revenue at a time when many restaurant chains are hurting due to high labor costs and weak traffic trends.

China: Last month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said sales in China were weaker than expected due in part to a «communications issues we need to fix, most importantly over charging.»

Videogames, along with sensors, have helped lead a turnaround at Sony, which is still struggling with weak smartphone and TV sales.

Comparable sales fell 17 % at Sears and 13 % at Kmart, a striking result given that they exclude the dozens of weak stores the company has culled in the last year.

As MPR notes, the city's analysis is weak not only because it looks at just two years» worth of data, but because of one crucial detail: that during the lost 2004 - 05 NHL season, St. Paul actually increased its sales tax intake over the previous season.

The biggest weak spot for the quarter was sales at its Gillette shaving business, which reported a 5 percent drop in net sales.

Speaking in Detroit last month, Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, acknowledged that sales in China were «unexpectedly weak» at the end of 2014.

Canada's expansion comes at a time when the U.S. dairy industry is struggling amid weak milk sales, eroding earnings for companies like Dallas - based Dean Foods Co..

At the start of the third quarter consumers eased off on spending at department, electronics and furniture stores as retail sales stalled in July, marking the weakest performance in six months, Commerce Department figures showed yesterday in WashingtoAt the start of the third quarter consumers eased off on spending at department, electronics and furniture stores as retail sales stalled in July, marking the weakest performance in six months, Commerce Department figures showed yesterday in Washingtoat department, electronics and furniture stores as retail sales stalled in July, marking the weakest performance in six months, Commerce Department figures showed yesterday in Washington.

Harlan Levy: From the most recent data, including robust retail sales, slightly declining consumer confidence, and weak manufacturing, what is keeping the U.S. economy recovering at its subpar pace?

However, retail sales were quite weak in March, suggesting that the tax increases that occurred at the start of the year may be beginning to have a material effect.

Earlier this month, American Outdoor Brands Corp. forecast weak firearm sales for at least a year, becoming the latest gun maker to report disappointing quarterly results.

American Outdoor Brands Corp. forecast weak firearm sales for at least a year, becoming the latest gun maker to report disappointing results as lawmakers discuss tougher regulations.

I mean what we've learned over the last several years is that there's tremendous variability across the year, and so you had really strong sales results at Red Lobster first quarter last year, weak earnings results because of the variability in food costs.

Wingstop Inc (NASDAQ: WING) shares plummeted after the restaurant chain issued weak fiscal 2018 earnings guidance at the same time it posted a fourth - quarter earnings and sales beat on Thursday.

The decline of 6.6 % was due entirely to weaker first quarter sales growth at Defence.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. home prices rose in May from a year earlier at the weakest pace in 15 months as sales remain modest in the spring buying season.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

Benefit gains were weaker at 0.1 % for both sales and office workers (2.1 % y / y) and natural resource, construction and maintenance workers (3.0 % y / y).

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Organic sales growth trends held steady at a 1 % decline, and while that performance met management's reduced outlook, it was still quite weak.

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

Revenue in the early part of the period was boosted by pent - up demand following a «very weak October,» while the company may have decided to concentrate all end - of - season clearance in January, leading to a smaller proportion of sales being at full price than a year earlier, they wrote in a note.

The company also reported weak holiday sales for the Nook in January, as it sold fewer e-readers and tablets at its own retail locations.

The OS is severely weak on third - party apps, though, which may be a brake on Honeycomb tablet sales, at least for a while.

«Our September checks indicated solid global sales of new BlackBerry 7 smartphones, with strong initial enterprise upgrade sales of the Bold at Verizon, strong initial sales of the Bold in certain markets in Europe, and solid sales of the Torch at AT&T with its $ 49 price,» Walkley wrote, noting that sell - through to consumers has been weak at Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T - Mobile.

The future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) remains highly uncertain at this juncture in the Trump presidency and the combination of oil prices stalling around US $ 50 / barrel and a declining trend in U.S. car sales points to a weaker contribution from trade in the second quarter.

The article cites comments by columnist Mark Hulbert, who refers to valuation metrics such as P / E, price - book, price - sales and price - dividend ratios as weak indicators of market tops but adds that we ignore them «at our peril, since it's also true that almost all bull market tops in history... Read More

They announced a newsworthy sales milestone of 1 million copies sold at the same time as announcing episode 4 to boost their announcement — a clever way of helping the «weaker episodes» gather more traction.

-- SEGA spent $ 210 million on games development — That is a 27 percent increase compared to the year prior — Advertising expenses climbed 53 percent, up to $ 73 million — SEGA is releasing 50 games by the end of the financial year in March, but combined sales of all those are expected to be about 5.4 million units — SEGA initially expected to sell about 300,000 units of its four latest Wii U games — That is now revised to 230,000, making it the weakest platform in terms of unit sales — Full year expectations for 3DS 1,160,000 — SEGA's revenue for the three - quarter period was $ 685 million — After expenses, that lowers to a profit of $ 18 million — SEGA is now organizing a sweeping business restructure, which will rebuild the corporation into three divisions, as part of a wider plan to «drastically improve profitability» — At least 300 positions at the corporation are targeted for redundancy — SEGA has set aside $ 125 million for the restructure costs — SEGA expects to lose $ 110m for the full yeAt least 300 positions at the corporation are targeted for redundancy — SEGA has set aside $ 125 million for the restructure costs — SEGA expects to lose $ 110m for the full yeat the corporation are targeted for redundancy — SEGA has set aside $ 125 million for the restructure costs — SEGA expects to lose $ 110m for the full year

Even by the standards of an Old Masters sale, the sell - through at Sotheby's evening sale yesterday was a weak 62 %.

The American art sales in May 2017 were weak despite the headline sales of two major works — a Frederic Remington bronze that sold at the top of the estimate range and a Norman Rockwell painting that doubled the high estimate — which can be seen in the sell - through rate and breakdown of the results.

«In the backdrop of falling auto sales and weak IIP numbers among others, the industry is likely to grow at around 15 % this fiscal.

It is doing so at a time when the overall tablet market is no longer the growth juggernaut it once was, with weak sales from the likes of Apple and Samsung.

LG said that the last three months were «challenging» for its mobile department and it reported an operating loss of $ 117.27 million, «primarily due to weaker than expected premium smartphone sales» — its major smartphone focus at the time being the LG G6, released in April.

Casey's lowered its same - store sales predictions for prepared food last month after a weak quarter, which analysts at Barclays Plc said coincided with an advertising push by Yum!

«With the exception of a minimal gain in the West, pending sales were weaker in most areas in July as house hunters saw limited options for sale and highly competitive market conditions,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

The May watchlist notes indicate that many of the center's retail shops have experienced weak sales and are expected to leave at the expiration of their leases or will require significant rent reductions in order to stay at the center.

30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage at a Cost of One Point: 3.25 % * (APR = 3.47 %) Rates improved today after Producer Price Index and Retail Sales numbers came out weaker than expected.

At the beginning of the year, Auction.com's Residential Real Estate Nowcast predicted that existing - home sales would recover after a weak report in November due to the implementation of TRID.