Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
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WARREN JENSON Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the ...
WARREN JENSON Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales.
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BONNIE HERZOG The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
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BOB REWEY We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, m...
CHRIS LIDDELL Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS About 50 percent of our sales associates turned up today and our executives are helping them.
ANNE KEATING We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER ICD sales were up 30 percent, so they gained about a point of market share from Guidant,
JEFF JONAS Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table ...
CRAIG SHNIDERMAN There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER The price has plunged over 50 percent in the fourth quarter [of last year from the previous year], b...
FRANK HUANG The estimates are for earnings to be down 50 percent in the second quarter, 37 percent in the third ...
CHUCK HILL Led by robust analog and wireless sales, we had an outstanding quarter. Focus on execution drove our...
BRIAN HALLA Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales. We wanted to continue our high summer numbers.
BRENDA RIOS Single-family (housing) starts for January through September were down by more than 14 percent, but ...
JEFF BURD G6 sales were up significantly in the fourth quarter of 2005 and are actually growing when the mid-s...
DAN FLORES We can't find a period when the investor share of home sales has been higher than in the last year. ...
DAVID BERSON The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 20...
DENNY GRIMES Intel was able to minimize its revenue decline in NOR flash to only 0.3 percent during the year, whi...
DALE FORD Our energy costs increased more than expected in the fourth quarter. Production and sales volumes in...
JAN OKSUM Our forecast released in November calls fourth-quarter sales to be 4.7 percent higher than the third...
GEORGE SCALISE While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA I'm pleased with another quarter of strong growth in which our core business revenues increased by 2...
BRIAN L. HALLA Poultry gross sales climbed 17 percent over year-earlier levels due in large part to increased value...
LARRY BURT Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.
BRIAN HARPER Our performance was extremely strong reporting record sales for the fourth-quarter and fiscal year.
GREG JOSEFOWICZ Although we did not attain our goal of increasing earnings at the same rate of sales, our 8.9 percen...
LEE SCOTT So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ And when I have sales I promote them at 50 percent off that price.
KRISTINE FAUERBACH New home sales surprised the experts. The Commerce Department said that new home sales were up by 13...
SONJA RUDD Drove some of the businesses completely out of business, immediately sales were off 90 percent.
DAN DELL We're seeing a team in the fourth quarter that doesn't have the confidence to finish up a game. Last...
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CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
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JOHN MURPHY For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER Slightly, to my mind, implies 3- to 5-percent growth. I think most people were looking at the 7- to ...
DAN NILES We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG The sales of bottled water are increasing by 30 percent a year here.
LI DEQUAN Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4...
LORA HO Far less than 1 percent of electronics sales is done online.
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GEORGE WORTHINGTON The LCD glass business, again, had a record quarter. We had sales increase by almost 60 percent for ...
DAN COLLINS Looking ahead, we anticipate a somewhat softer third quarter and, again, a more dynamic fourth quart...
DANIEL VASELLA Earnings were up 6 percent from the first quarter, making the second quarter of 2000 Alcoa's eighth ...
ALAIN BELDA Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU We were extremely successful in our loan production efforts in the fourth quarter, as annualized gro...
WILLIAM THOMAS We were looking for consolidated revenue growth of 10.2 percent for the fourth quarter and 11.1 perc...
ADAM QUINTON We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE The Parkersburg/Marietta area employment outlook is stronger than the fourth quarter forecast when 2...
SANDY BROWN More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2...
ELTON GALLEGLY We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
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DAVID KNIGHT By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT Sales of whole grain bread and baked goods have jumped more than 18 percent over the last year to mo...
JOAN CAMERLINGO Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING In the first quarter of this year, sales rose 35 per cent compared with the same period last year. A...
LI XIANG The research team was surprised to find out more than 50 percent of four-year students were not in t...
STEPHANE BALDI I am pleased with the strides we've made in our global equipment business where revenues grew 41 per...
PHIL KNIGHT We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in t...
EUBEN PARACUELLES The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or mor...
ETHAN MCAFEE Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT Most of the aluminum companies will be flat to slightly up in the third quarter versus a year ago, a...
CLARENCE MORRISON The fourth quarter represents the second consecutive quarter of strong business execution and improv...
JASON COHENOUR The strength is clearly in our digital signal processor business, which is our mainstream business f...
BILL AYLESWORTH We were prepared for a more difficult ride than we wound up with. An S&P 500 of 3 percent is not ter...
DORSEY FARR The fourth quarter is the peak season for PC sales, which should help AU stay profitable.
SIMON CHAO What you're seeing in the fourth quarter is a team that doesn't have confidence to finish up the gam...
GEORGE KARL In the U.S. there's been fantastic gift card download sales. Towards the middle of last year we were...
LARRY KENSWIL Consider this: Apple says its stores are now making more than $1 billion in sales per quarter. Just ...
LEANDER KAHNEY The numbers were better than we expected. We knew we were comparing against a strong August last yea...
FRANK STRESHLEY We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO The biggest positive was handset margins, which came in at 4 percent, up from 1.5 percent last quart...
MARK MCKECHNIE In the last period, we saw almost a 50 percent increase. We're going to watch the sales of the remai...
JAMIE MILLER The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations,...
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GAIL GOODMAN Over the past six years Hyundai sales have grown 364 percent, and that's more than any other car com...
BOB COSMAI The chances of Japan going into another recession are more than 50 percent within this year.
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DAVE NASH The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
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JACK WARD Even more surprising was the amount (played on baccarat), $426 million, up 107 percent over last yea...
FRANK STRESHLEY If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
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EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE