The pattern is familiar: it starts
with slowing sales activity.
In these cases, prices are dropping in tandem
with slowing sales.
The company's tablets are typically reserved for their own event later in the year but
with slowing sales, it may make sense to go ahead and get them out sooner rather than later.
Increased competition from Adidas AG and Under Armour Inc. has taken a toll on the world's largest athletic brand this year,
with slowing sales growth in its home country.
The company is a carefully chosen poster child for Obama's stimulus plans: While so many manufacturers struggle
with slowing sales, Cardinal Fastener is growing and adding staff, thanks to its focus on the green energy industry.
When you're coming off a holiday high, it's easy to get frustrated
with slowed sales — and fall into a slump yourself.
In the United States, KFC's grilled chicken met
with slow sales after a major launch, while in Puerto Rico it remains a top seller.
Whatever is happening in Japan right now
with slower sales pretty much across the board aside.
Mazda's initial problem
with slow sales of the CX - 5 can undoubtedly be attributed, at least in part, to the overcrowding for the compact SUV segment.
I currently have four books published through CreateSpace and NOT HAPPY
with the slow sales.
I priced all of them at 9.99
with slow sales on kindle.
Android tablets are in a weird place right now,
with slow sales and relatively few compelling devices on the market.
Not exact matches
And
with more blockbusters being released each summer, the industry stands to benefit from stronger
sales in the summer months, when demand for toys has traditionally
slowed.
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.
When a company liquidates merchandise
with huge discounts, it often sucks up market share and
slows sales at competitors.
March was
slow month for new vehicle
sales in Western Australia, adding to a
slow quarter for the majority of the top industry players,
with Nissan being one of the few exceptions.
Sales of the DODOcase were
slow in the first several weeks
with only a 100 or so orders coming in from the original coupons.
South Korea's Hyundai Motor (hymtf) and Kia Motors (kimtf) on Tuesday flagged only modest
sales growth in 2018, suggesting a
slow recovery from a slump linked to their lack of SUVs in the United States and diplomatic tensions
with China.
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.
In its own quarterly report late on Thursday, Amazon reported a jump in retail
sales along
with a profit slump, as its rapid, costly expansion into new shopping categories and countries showed no sign of
slowing.
But the introduction of B.C.'s Foreign Buyers» Tax, combined
with other mortgage and housing market regulations, has prompted
sales to
slow.
Smartphone
sales are
slowing across the board,
with Samsung — the biggest maker of the devices — seeing big profit slowdowns.
But the informed business owner
with an eye on the financials can see that if
sales are
slowed and the collection of receivables is stepped up, then cash flow will magically increase.
Reportedly,
sales have been
slow during this week's International Paris Air Show, but Benoit Poirer, an analyst
with Dejardins Capital Markets, is bullish on the aircraft's prospects.
The plane could perk up relatively
slow sales for the 737 MAX 7 and help Boeing's market share battle
with Airbus Group SE, which has outsold it
with its competing A320 jet.
It's become wildly popular in the country, though this quarter, device
sales were
slower than the company's expectations, Chief Financial Officer Martin King said Thursday on a call
with analysts following the release of first - quarter earnings results.
Supporting customers too early on means you're
slower to develop and fine tune your product,
with more emphasis (and budget) on
sales and marketing and less on actually making something really, unbelievably awesome.
With the benefit of hindsight, it's incredible to think about how divergent the paths of the two companies have been, especially in light of a new report that shows already -
slowing PC
sales are about to drop off a cliff.
Services are still a small part of Apple's
sales compared
with the iPhone, which booked more than $ 38 billion during the quarter, but services provide a high - margin, steady and quickly growing revenue stream as smartphone
sales are set to
slow worldwide.
Dare I say that an acquisition even better than the one for my
slow - roasted addiction (
with a little pump of pumpkin) is a
sale?
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.
Sluggishness in developed regions, along
with natural disasters, also
slowed sales more broadly, P&G said.
The housing market
slowed in December
with both new and existing home
sales falling sharply.
When this is the case, a
sales representative could well be
slowing down the
sales process by trying to pitch to an IT person
with no decision - making authority.
Alone, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but combine it
with these: (1)
sales in the craft segment are
slowing, and distinctive winners and losers are emerging; (2) large, independent brands not committed to deep cost - cutting are suffering, while corporate - owned craft brands are selling briskly; (3) small craft beer producers are still posting big growth gains; but (4) legacy mass market brands are collapsing; finally (5) mass market Mexican imports are killing it, especially (yay!)
Retail
sales weakened markedly,
with growth
slowing to 10.6 per cent from 2014's full - year expansion of 12 per cent, threatening to undercut official efforts to nurture a consumer - driven economy.
With populist frustration increasingly pressuring policy change around the world, investors should expect labor, tax, and interest expense to rise faster than
sales, thereby depressing profit margins and
slowing real growth in earnings per share over the decades ahead.
The metro Vancouver market has already started
slowing down,
with sales in September off by about 33 per cent from a year ago.
With the Holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all - time highs, one can't help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn't really doing as well as we've been told by the expe
With the Holiday shopping season off to a
slow start according to preliminary retail
sales numbers and
with the stock market sitting near all - time highs, one can't help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn't really doing as well as we've been told by the expe
with the stock market sitting near all - time highs, one can't help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn't really doing as well as we've been told by the experts.
The market is once again filled
with doubts about Lululemon Athletica's niche in a niche market after it revealed
slower - than - expected January
sales.
Kraft has struggled to keep up
with the changing consumer tastes in recent years, and in November it fired most of its advertising agencies amid
slowing sales and declining volume.
The data comes amid other evidence of
slowing consumer spending in the U.K.
with surprisingly poor retail
sales released last week and expectations that resurgent levels of inflation will persist.
With auto
sales strong, the housing industry showing signs of a true rebound, and consumer confidence on the rise, we expect to continue seeing steady but
slower activity.»
The
slowing online
sales growth raised concerns among analysts that the retailer might be unable to keep pace
with Amazon.
With a point - to - point calculation you can assume gross profit, EBITDA, net income, etc. will grow faster or
slower than
sales.
Investors have become frustrated
with Oracle's
slowing growth in new license
sales.
However, like - for - like
sales growth
slowed compared
with the previous quarter.
The market seems to be frustrated
with the coffee chain, as comparable -
sales growth has
slowed from 5 % a few years ago to just 2 %, but considering the «restaurant recession» going on in the U.S. over the last two years, Starbucks is still outperforming most of its peers.
Sales of the drug were slow to take off until Alkermes realized it needed to build a unique sales force to work with the criminal justice system and addiction recovery prog
Sales of the drug were
slow to take off until Alkermes realized it needed to build a unique
sales force to work with the criminal justice system and addiction recovery prog
sales force to work
with the criminal justice system and addiction recovery programs.
Sales growth
slowed to zero in the fourth quarter and for the full 2017 year as the maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues struggled
with weak consumer demand.