Sentences with phrase «weak sales performance»

As many have noted of late, e-book sales are slipping, and Publishers Weekly's Jim Milliot has a report on how slowing e-book sales hit profits of two big publishers, S&S and HarperCollins: Parent company News Corp blamed the weak sales performance on lower Divergent sales and lower e-book sales.

Barclays» James Anstead and Nicolas Champ: «Given ASDA's weak sales performance - and difficult market positioning in a world where the discounters have successfully occupied the price end of the market - we think it would hardly be surprising that Wal - Mart could be open to considering options for its UK business.

With Albertsons contending with weak sales performance in the last two years, and struggling to keep up with whatever Amazon.com has planned with Whole Foods Market and all the investments Walmart is putting into grocery pickup, it's clear it needed a deal.

Not exact matches

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

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

EMC reported a 2.5 % fall in quarterly revenue, as strong sales in its enterprise software division failed to offset weak performance in its traditional data storage business and a strong dollar.

The slump was related to higher material costs and a weaker performance among its nickel - battery products, historically the firm's biggest revenue source, because of the global slowdown and weaker power tool sales.

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 Washington.

Auto sales have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride this year, with a weak performance in February followed by a jump in sales for some automakers in March.

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

As Coles posted its weakest sales growth in nine years, incoming Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott made clear he would not be distracted by short - term performance.

It was perhaps even more concerning, given that the decline came despite a 13 % increase in sales of digital content, which would seem to indicate that it is weak demand for Nook devices themselves that is dragging down the division's performance.

On a closing note, there is a weak positive correlation in most mature industries between stock price performance and relative decreases in share count, assets, and sales.

Of course, Simon de Pury blames the performance on weak Imp / Mod sales the week before.

Valve has been working to reassure members of its community that it has not yet thrown in the towel on SteamOS and Linux gaming systems that have been hampered over the years due to performance issues, soaring sales on mainstream rival platforms, and generally weak demand for Steam Machines.