TWE's renewed success in China comes at a time when the likes of Coke and Unilever are reporting single - digit growth in China, while beverage group Diageo saw its full
year sales fall 2 per cent across the Asia - Pacific.
The polarizing Ford Flex three - row crossover has never been a huge success for Ford, but
this year its sales fell 8.0 percent to just 25,953.
In the first quarter of
the year sales fell 7 % and in Q4 2015 they fell 1 %.
Not exact matches
At the same time, Foot Locker shares, already down sharply this
year, tumbled 25 % in heavy trading as the retailer reported that comparable
sales fell 6 % in the second quarter — a stunning result given the 1.7 % increase expected by Wall Street, according to Consensus Metrix.
The Denver and Montreal - based company said its
sales fell 4.8 per cent to US$ 2.33 billion in the first quarter compared to the prior
year quarter.
DESPITE a significant
fall in new vehicle
sales across the country in 2008, car dealers in Western Australia retain a positive outlook for the
year ahead.
There appears to have been a surprising shift in the music business last
year, as
sales of digital downloads
fell, with fans turning instead to streaming services such as Spotify and vinyl.
The New York Times, for example, says ebook
sales fell by 10 % in the first five months of this
year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers.
Yum shares
fell 5 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday after results showed
sales at restaurants open at least a
year rose 1 percent in the three months ended March 31, compared with the 2 percent expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.
New car
sales in Western Australia started the 2018 financial
year in the slow lane,
falling 8 per cent in July as national
sales continued to rise.
The 202 -
year - old company, which owns gun manufacturers including Bushmaster and Marlin, said its
sales fell 30 % last
year to $ 600 million.
Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last
year, had blamed
falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.
Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this
year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per cent
fall in new car
sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best
year on record.
But despite the iMac Pro launch in December, Mac
sales fell 5 percent from a
year ago.
For the full
year in 2017, background checks by the FBI, a proxy for gun
sales fell 8.4 % to 25.3 million.
• Social Finance Inc, a San Francisco - based student loan refinancing services company, discussed a potential
sale earlier this
year with Charles Schwab Corp, but the talks
fell apart over the $ 8 billion price the online lender sought, according to Reuters.
One measure would be to compare current estimates to the predictions of first -
year sales that were made in the
fall of 2014, when the device was unveiled.
The episode led to a 2 percent
fall in
sales during the second - quarter of this
year.
If Pizza Hut was struggling, so was NPC: in August, the franchisee reported that same - store
sales at its Pizza Hut units
fell almost 6 percent in the second quarter compared to a nearly 4 percent drop a
year ago.
In 2017, U.S. comparable same - restaurant
sales fell 5.3 % at Applebee's, and also slipped at sister chain, the pancake - focused IHOP, where they declined 1.9 % last
year.
And De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, saw
sales during the first half of the
year fall by more than 50 %, to US$ 1.7 billion.
Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first
year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone
sales in China,
falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.
Separate data showed retail
sales fell 0.1 % in October from a
year ago, less than the median estimate for a 1.2 % annual decline and less than a 1.7 % annual decline in the previous month.
That is still better than a
year ago, when
sales fell 6.5 percent at its American full - line stores.
Gap said in a statement Thursday that comparable - store
sales, or
sales at locations open at least one
year,
fell 6 %, more than the Bloomberg expectation for a 5 % drop.
The U.K. - based pharmacy chain Tesco reported that
sales of folic acid — a popular prenatal supplement — have doubled in the past
year, while condom purchases
fell by 9 %.
Light yogurt
sales fell 8.5 % in the
year ended in September 2016, dropping $ 200 million from roughly $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion, according to Nielsen data.
The following
year, a seller from Asia listed a similar purse for $ 12, and Takada's
sales fell 40 percent.
The second - generation Moto G, on
sale this
fall, has slightly better specs than last
year's model — an improved camera and an SD card slot among them — and will also sell for around $ 200.
Since the Department of Labor finalized its fiduciary rule (now in limbo) last
year, annuity
sales have
fallen dramatically as brokerage firms and advisors anticipate that the products may not pass muster under a tighter regulatory standard.
Indeed, while iPhone unit
sales fell year - over-
year in the fourth quarter, they turned into positive territory on a sequential basis.
It was the second straight
year of
falling sales for the vacation
sales sector, which is now down 36 percent from its latest peak in 2014.
Sales at building materials and garden equipment suppliers
fell 2.2 percent, the weakest reading since May last
year.
Meads told Business Insider that he had managed to sell it at an auction last
year, but then the customer, who wanted to bring it to Iran, had problems at taking it out of the country, and the
sale fell apart.
The Gear S, which goes on
sale later this
fall, is the sixth smartwatch Samsung has released within the last
year.
While
sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been
falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 -
year old retailer.
Even Lego, which has posted
years of growth, said in September that
sales of its colorful bricks
fell for the first time in 13
years, and announced plans to cut 1,400 jobs.
Sales at stores open for at least one
year fell in the third quarter by 2.3 % at company - owned restaurants.
Hong Kong retail
sales fell 7.7 percent on -
year in July, with jewelry and watch
sales down more than 26 percent and department store
sales falling nearly 7 percent.
However,
sales of building materials
fell by the most in a
year, a potentially worrying signal from the housing market.
Fears that Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton would win the election and limit gun
sales led to record purchases last
year, but Trump's surprise victory has had a reverse effect, with 2017
sales falling and investors selling gunmaker shares.
With
sales growth
falling off a cliff in the past two
years, they're becoming the most commoditized of hardware and the most responsible for the «bloodbath» losses mounting at Japanese manufacturers.
Home
sales in Manhattan have
fallen by 25 %
year - on -
year.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The company that once offered to sell you eight CDs for 1 cent has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after almost 20
years of
falling sales.
The discount retailer on Wednesday lowered its profit forecast for the
year after reporting comparable
sales fell 1.3 % in November and December, as big gains in its online business were dwarfed by stiff price competition and growing difficulty in getting shoppers into stores.
But prices for new developments
fell 17 percent over last
year and the number of
sales are down 20 percent.
Average
sales prices
fell 15 percent and the supply of homes on the market is now longer than two
years.
The David & Mark Brewing Co.
fell far short of meeting its first -
year projection of $ 691,440 in
sales with a loss of just $ 79,000.
The company's chief financial officer, Stephen Jackson, said in court papers that Remington's
sales fell significantly in the
year before...
The
sale announced Monday marks the second time in two
years that Verizon has snapped up the remains of a
fallen internet star as it broadens its digital reach.