Chrysler, now controlled by Italian carmaker Fiat, booked a 34% jump in domestic sales.
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While her domestic sales chugged along, her international sales inexplicably began to take off.
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Workers fear that a 55% drop in domestic sales last year jeopardizes their jobs.
Meanwhile, domestic sales have risen 6.3% domestically in 2010 and this year it has seen double-digit growth.
All told, three-quarters of domestic sales revenue comes from individuals and one-quarter from institutional purchases, like libraries.
Rather than wait for domestic sales to pick up, Toshiba and Matsushita have gone on the offensive.
It is also counting on its new Colt Plus subcompact model to stem the decline in domestic sales.
In the past few months, though, both wholesale and retail prices have slid, at least for domestic sales.
Domestic sales of 302, 210 vehicles were 25 percent lower than in August 2010.
But the cars-in-vans'-clothing have transformed Honda's fortunes and now account for more than 70% of the company's domestic sales.
Domestic sales slumped 5% but the company was buoyed by 14.4% growth overseas.
His company, called Logovaz, was the automaker's largest dealer, selling 45, 000 Avtovaz cars annually, nearly 10% of its domestic sales.
Sevantilal Shah, the boss of Venus Jewel, a big diamond polisher and producer in Surat, says domestic sales are flourishing.
Honda said it plans to boost domestic sales 21% to 710, 000 vehicles in the current fiscal year ending in March 2013.
Shares of Harvey Norman dropped 4.2% although the retailer issued a first-half profit that beat expectations, as offshore and domestic sales fell.
And an improving economy will lift domestic sales at Coke and Pepsi.
Fortunately, electricity firms still make most of their money from domestic sales.
Separate figures released by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association on Monday showed Mitsubishi Motor's domestic sales in October were 49.8% lower than year-earlier.
Until a world ethanol market takes off, Brazil's producers will stay uncomfortably dependent on domestic sales and on Petrobras, the national oil giant.
Still one cannot escape the fact that this marks the second successive quarter that the measure for final domestic sales were stronger, rising 2.5%.
And the outlook for increased domestic sales of the kind of high-end weapons the defense industry has traditionally preferred to build is becoming brighter.
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Mitsubishi, Japan's only unprofitable car maker, has suffered a collapse in domestic sales following a series of high-profile product recalls over the past four years.
Back then, a great deal of the U.S. and developed world economies and their resulting employment were linked to manufacturing, which was largely geared to domestic sales.
By the middle of the last decade, overseas contract orders exceeded domestic sales, and the company's position as a major player in the international telecoms market was cemented.
Also in Hong Kong, Geely Automobile Holdings jumped 5.1% after the Chinese carmaker announced a 32% increase in its 2012 net profit, with stronger exports offsetting slower domestic sales.
Indeed, international sales (-2.8%) have been more steady than domestic sales (-24.3%), and it is clear that Harley has turned its attention abroad for more promising avenues for growth.
The struggling consumer electronics retailer this morning said sales for the 9 weeks ended January 5 were down 0.4%, with domestic sales down 1.2% and international sales up 2.2%.
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With its 3rd quarter domestic sales down 23 percent and US revenue plummeting by almost half, the once prominent king of the smartphone sector has a long uphill battle ahead.
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The optimism is based not on an expectation of rapid or large increases in domestic sales, but rather on confidence in the continued strength of overseas market demand for Japanese products.
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