We achieved substantial sales and earnings improvement during the year thanks in large part to the efforts of our management and associate team. Additionally, we ended the year with a strong balance sheet that positions us for continued growth and success.
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Bicycle sales are near an all-time high with 19 million sold last year -- close to the 20 million sold during the oil embargo in the early 1970s.
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Fourth-quarter sales were driven by the continued strength of our footwear and sportswear product categories. Outerwear sales were down in the quarter, but not to the degree initially expected, due to healthy outerwear re-orders from U.S. Retail customers late in the quarter.
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I am skeptical that Gateway's going to be able to successfully boost its professional and direct sales moving forward, with or without Inouye at the helm.
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It's been important for Apple to overcome objections regarding sales of its servers into the large or mid-size enterprise. Apple's been challenged by a pervasive perception that its server offering is not compatible with existing technology.
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It would appear that with ticket sales over 5,000, many others have expressed their right and find Nelly's music entertaining and worth spending their time and money on
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A lot more bikes are selling at MSRP so Harley is starting to give the appearance of being more like auto companies, using incentives to push product through the dealer,.. That could boost unit sales but at what cost?
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Our coalition is growing. It grows stronger each day and we think, ultimately, we will see the full removal of sales tax on food.
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The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reasons. They know double taxation when they see it. They know that if they pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax, they pay sales tax, that it's absolutely, fundamentally, inherently wrong to make death another taxable event.
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(Customers) all enjoyed the 20 percent discounts. They were taking advantage of these sales opportunities.
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The next few weeks until Thanksgiving is a very important time for us and it's also a heavily promotional period. We'll continue to have more mid-week and weekend sales similar to this past weekend.
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We try not to focus on specific words, and we don't have a standing policy that says you have to use holiday or Christmas or one or the other. We just want our customers to feel comfortable whatever faith they may be and ask sales associates to be sensitive to that.
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We have been growing and have seen strong sales increases in the last two years.
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The retail sales numbers are obviously important because it's our first peek at what demand is going to look like in the first quarter of this year.
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We can't wait for the 2006 Pirates baseball season to get started! Sales have been extremely strong this off-season. We've sold 10,000 season tickets to date and more and more fans continue to purchase each day.
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We realized almost a 50% increase in August gross revenue over the same period last year. That is the fifth month in a row that sales have increased and a great indicator of our continued growth.
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Stronger sales in recent months show that consumers are continuing to enter the home-building market as the local economy creates jobs and mortgage rates remain historically low. The response from new-home buyers has allowed home builders to reduce their inventories and provided optimism for early 2006.
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[Ultimately, though, Cuban and Wagner are betting that offering multiple formats won't cut into any single format's sales, because they appeal to different audiences.] Our argument is that people want to go to the movie theaters because they want to go to the movie theater,.. It's not about seeing it just because it's not at home. I have food at home, too, but I still go to restaurants.
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We do have the world's largest retail network ready to offer taxpayers personal assistance that is not available through their software product. In addition, we announced last week that our digital sales increased 58 percent in early March. We see this simply as a maneuver to try and halt the progress of a successful competitor.
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It's given us a lot of great opportunities to form a long-term relationship with clients, but it's not always a good thing. I know there are a lot of people out there selling with scare tactics, the ones who don't want to see viruses go away. I disagree with that sales philosophy, but I see a lot of it.
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It's tough to go direct to end-users when you are likely competing with a person who has almost everything else -- including a sales relationship with your potential customers.
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Will professional sales reps take the time to represent a guy with three calendars? Probably not. Will Barnes
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Profit was the motive, with sales goals as high as 0,000 a day. The dealers took aggressive steps to protect their lucrative enterprise.
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Why are we downgrading the stock now? Mainly because of our belief that sales may not be advancing at the rate that we had previously anticipated and also because of the impending departure of Galli.
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Worldwide Internet retail sales were almost 3 billion in 1999 and we expect that to double in 2000. Street estimates for worldwide sales in 2002 are approximately 05 billion, with 5 billion of that in the U.S. This implies an annual growth rate of 80 percent worldwide.
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