Sentences with phrase «which sees strong growth»

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«The Texas market is seeing the return of the first - time homebuyer in response to strong job growth, which provides Dr. Horton with a volume tailwind,» he wrote in his latest report.

P&G saw its strongest sales growth in beauty, which jumped 9 percent, and health care, which jumped 4 percent.

It saw its strongest sales growth in beauty, which jumped 9 percent, and health care, which jumped 4 percent.

Under Armour, which generated nearly $ 4 billion in sales last year, has reported consistent double - digit sales growth as it expands into new product categories, places a bigger bet on the women's market, and sees stronger brand interest with key athlete endorsement deals including NBA star Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

Apart from slowing global demand, export growth is seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

The sharp rise - which saw particularly strong growth for women's clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, shoes and handbags - follows tepid growth in 2016 and dips in both 2015 and 2014.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

Tide sales helped drive the household division's net sales growth of 2 percent, while strong sales of its premium skincare brand SK - II, aided its beauty business, which saw 5 percent growth.

The film's merchandise lifted last year's U.S. retail toy sales and contributed to a strong quarter for Disney, which also saw steady growth from its television and cable networks including ABC and ESPN.

Part of Netflix's rally has been due a massively strong quarter of its own, which was seen as calming concerns that it its valuation wasn't supported by its growth.

The announcement comes off the back of strong results for the newspaper's business section, The Australian Business Review, which saw the highest YOY growth of any business section in the country in the most recent EMMA survey (February).

«We are still seeing international growth over 50 percent and then also footwear, which I think was expected to be light, was still very strong, over 30 percent,» she continued.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

This follows a period of very strong increases, which saw dwelling investment contribute over a percentage point to annual growth in GDP in 2002.

«Importantly, legitimate sales of TWE's quality wines remain be extremely strong — a great recent example of this is the record - breaking Singles Day online shopping event in China involving Alibaba and a number of our e-commerce partners which saw our sales growth increase significantly through our own - managed platforms».

William Grant should also benefit from Tullamore Dew's leading position in Germany and many Eastern European countries, some of which (Germany, the Czech Republic) are expected to see strong growth.

This is ahead of Latin America, which saw particularly strong growth over the year to reach 11 percent.

«We continue to see strong growth in this category and installing a new Tetra Pak line puts the company in a great position to support the growth of not only Vendange, but Black Box and Rex Goliath, which are now being offered in 500mL Tetra paks,» said Fowler.

In choosing which schools to cover, we review at least three years» worth of academic and behavioral data to see if the school is outperforming others in the state or showing strong growth.

While some might see all of this as good news — or rather better news than what we have seen for nearly the last decade during which states, state departments of education, and practitioners have been grappling with and trying to make sense of student growth measures and VAMs — others are still (and likely forever will be) holding onto what now seems to be some of the now unclenched promises attached to such stronger accountability measures.

«In the educational / professional sector the largest growth was seen in Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) books, where sales increased by 16 %, however, there were also strong performances by schools / English Language Teaching (ELT) sales which grew 14 %, and social sciences / humanities which saw an 11 % rise.»

One of the strongest segments of market growth this year has been children's digital books and digital non-fiction books, which saw increases of 171 % and 128 % respectively during the same period.

In fact, due to strong business growth (which we'll see in a moment), the payout ratio hasn't increased all that much over the last decade.

The strong Swiss franc of course is a drag and I expect slow growth regarding my Swiss stocks and prices to remain rather flat for some years, which is not per se a bad thing, especially when new funds are added to these positions and dividends are reinvested (see also Slowing dividend growth is nothing to lament about).

In order to see a sustained move to higher rates, we need to see both stronger global growth and signs of increased inflation, neither of which appear to be on the horizon.

Well, except for the recent dose of pessimism we've been experiencing since November... In terms of valuation, and the stronger dollar, I expected the S&P to retrace / trade sideways for quite some time to come — but I also hoped to see it throw up some high quality growth stocks to consider averaging into, which has certainly proved to be the case with some v interesting individual stock bargains now on offer.

I see potential to build from this solid platform for further growth and diversification which will allow Petmate to continue to build strong customer partnerships and increase consumer loyalty.

We see this in the strong demand from business for premium travel which maintained 7.7 % growth through February.

New York's commitment to clean energy, including its nation - leading energy goals, have helped spur the strong growth, which also saw annual industry revenues reach an estimated $ 906 million during the same time period, a 50 percent increase.

The current policies were put in place after careful consideration and produce significant benefits — something we have seen consistently in states with strong commitments to renewable energy — which include providing sustainable sources of power, diversifying the energy supply, supporting innovation, and providing billions of dollars of in - state economic growth and thousands of jobs throughout the state.

Neil Purslow, Co-Founder of Therium Group Holdings, said: «We are continuing to see strong growth in demand for our litigation financing services on both sides of the Atlantic, which is why we have expanded our investment teams in London and New York.

Legal business DWF has announced plans to relocate into new office premises within Newcastle's prestigious Central Square South, which will see the business's 50 - strong Newcastle team with modern, open - plan working space that will facilitate further growth as well as enable the introduction of agile working.

One market segment that's expected to see continued strong price growth is entry - level housing, which is struggling with a shortage of inventory.

Markedly, 84 percent of respondents to the survey reported rent growth for Class B and C apartments as «much stronger» or «somewhat stronger» than that of Class A apartments, which, as Obrinsky noted, have seen higher supply.

Nevada, which lead the nation in growth during 1999, saw residential construction permits declined across the state in 2000 and casino construction slowed, but job growth for 2001 is still expected to be a strong 4 percent, down from 4.5 percent in 2000.

«Expenditures on energy - efficient home improvements, which have been essentially flat over the last few years, will see a period of strong growth through 2014, reaching $ 50.2 billion in that year,» says the new Energy Efficient Homes report by Pike Research, a Boulder, Colo., market research and consulting firm focusing on clean technology.

If 9 percent of retail is through e-commerce, then that means that 91 percent isn't, which is why we're still seeing strong consumer growth.

Overall, the strong upward movement in land prices has leveled out even though we have seen growth in values over the past six months especially in the East Central District, which covers much of the local market area.

In Europe, limited building has boosted markets including London and Dublin, the latter of which hasn't seen a new office building in three years and ranks strongest for rent growth in the region.

«The fact that we continue to see a strong core of metros showing up on the improving list each month adds to the growing evidence that the emerging housing recovery has a solid foundation on which to build as housing returns to its traditional role of driving economic growth,» observes NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe.