Sentences with phrase «years of declining sales»

For example: «Generated $ 1MM and reversed two years of declining sales within six months of starting by aligning the sales and marketing teams» strategy.»

The plaintiff's employment was terminated in September 2013 after several years of declining sales for the magazine.

In fact, give the years of declining sales, the company indicated there is «substantial doubt related to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.»

In June, after almost three years of declining sales, Drexler stepped down as chief executive after 14 years at the company.

The company, which reports its second quarter results Wednesday, has faced years of declining sales, as well as tough competition from discounters and online stores.

Sears Canada announced 700 layoffs last week following years of declining sales and increasing competition.

Japanese brewer Kirin is hoping for a turnaround at food and beverages group Lion Co this year after another year of declining sales and earnings in 2017.

Not exact matches

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia were down 15.8 per cent in May, adding to a sharp decline in year - to - date activity, though one bright spot was a pick - up in sales of luxury marques.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

The company's iPhone, which makes up the biggest chunk of its revenue, saw its first year - over-year revenue decline ever in Apple's last - reported fiscal quarter ended March 26, investors are deeply concerned about the iPad's future, and even Macs saw sales slip last quarter.

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

But on Monday, McDonald's reported a comparable sales decline of 1.3 % in the U.S., which the company said reflected «the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.»

Despite sharply declining sales to China and South Korea, these three countries still accounted last year for 32 percent of Japan's total exports.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

For example, Faust's operations in Texas had reported 20 years of declines in sales for Miller Lite, including a 10 % drop in 2013.

Revenue declined nearly 6 % last year, in large part because of the sale of its pharmacy business to CVS.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

The declining sales of this year's «Call of Duty» prompted Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson to lower his price target on the publisher from $ 27 to $ 24, though he maintained an «overweight» rating.

This marks the fourth - consecutive year a «Call of Duty» game has seen its first - month sales decline.

The former finds inspiration from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight years of sales declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.

Sales of regular «dumb» phones totaled 210 million units, a decline of 21 percent year - over-year.

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

Cabela's has struggled with declining sales of apparel and footwear and has reported same - store sales growth in only one quarter in more than three years.

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.

Though 2009 proved a bright spot for Gottschalk — Buffett listed her as one of the execs who increased profits despite declining sales in Berkshire's annual report — Pampered Chef's more recent years were bumpy.

Because of the slow start to 2017, Kellogg now sees a full - year sales decline of about 3 %, worse than its prior estimate of a 2 % drop.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

The rest of southern Florida is seeing more stable prices and sales after a decline last year.

Pfizer has for several years weighed whether a split makes sense, largely because its patent - protected medicines routinely enjoy sales growth, while its portfolio of generics usually post declines.

Apple competes with services like Vudu and Amazon's Prime in the market for digital video rentals and sales, with Apple's share of that market declining in recent years amid increased competition.

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

With three months still remaining in 2017, we've already seen seven straight months of year - over-year auto sales declines and over 6,300 retail chain stores shuttered.

Terex's crane sales declined 7.5 % in 2014, falling most steeply in the latter half of the year — when oil prices were collapsing — and coming in below the company's own forecasts.

«Since we began working ten years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales of cigarettes have declined after a century of steadily increasing.»

Slumping demand for diet sodas sold by PepsiCo and Coca Cola propelled a decline for the broader industry, as overall sales of carbonated soft drinks dropped for the 11th consecutive year in the U.S.

Worldwide soup consumption was flat in 2013, reports consumer research firm Euromonitor International, continuing a trend of declining global sales in the category over the last five years.

After six straight quarters of declining sales in China, Apple said that revenue in that country grew 12 % year - over-year to $ 9.8 billion.

Astoundingly, unit sales of products with the words «diet,» «light,» «low,» or «reduced» in their names had declined by 11 % in 2013, according to Nielsen, and had been flat to down for several years prior to that.

Meanwhile, data from the Confederation of the British Industry showed U.K. retail sales declining in the year to August.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

The massive loss is the latest in 10 years of declining same - store sales.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

Last month, the burger giant posted a steeper than expected sales decline, with global sales at restaurants open for more than a year falling 1.8 % in January, the eighth straight month of falling sales.

The stakes for the iPhone 7 are high after sales of the gadget dropped during two straight quarters this year, the first declines in its history.

As a percentage of home sales, buying by foreigners in Singapore declined to just over 6 percent last year from 18 percent in 2011, Citigroup said in a report.

The department store company, which has reported sales declines in its last 11 quarters despite closing dozens of weak stores, said on Thursday, that comparable sales rose 1 % in November and December, a modest increase to be sure, but one that puts Macy's on track to report its first quarter of growth in three years.

Sales at Mattel dropped 11 % last year, the fourth consecutive year of decline.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.