Also worth mentioning is the fact that the January sales pace charted higher than expected.
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January sales reflected the damage done by the federal investigation of potential fire risks, he says.
The output rebound was in line with a spike in January sales figures released earlier in the month.
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If you add up December and January sales and average them, you still get the second-highest monthly totals ever.
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It was not the stylish coat that Momma had bought a year ago, in the January sales at the mall.
Toyota reported a 26 percent gain in January sales in the U.S. market more than double the industry average gain for the month.
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But, this month, when January sales were upwardly revised to 1.8% growth, they had little to say except that maybe February could have been stronger.
Jointly owned by Fiat and the U.S. government, Chrysler announced its January sales had surged as well, gaining 23% to 70, 118 from January 2010.
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Five days before its ad aired, Chrysler, now part of Italy's Fiat, reported its best January sales since 2008, up 44% from a year earlier.
Retailers Costco and Limited Brands beat the estimates for January sales, despite a cold month that set a record for snow levels in the east coast.
Sales rose 1.1% to a five-month high in February, according to the Commerce Department, while January sales were revised higher to a gain of 0.6%.
January sales were almost 4% higher than January of 2012 but were down nearly 3% from December, a fact that can be explained away by seasonal cycles.
Toyota spokeswoman Sona Iliffe-Moon said the company won't comment about any potential hit to sales or market share before its scheduled release of January sales on February 2.
The downside: The sales increase came off a low base, thanks to the disaster of 2009, and the tepid 0.3% rise in January sales reported Tuesday was about half what economists had predicted.
So, January sales are always pretty good.
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Many of the worst problems will hit retailers, who in some countries will be in the thick of the January sales, the period when shops are busiest and the amount of money in circulation is largest (see article).
To adjust for this variable timing, we compared January 2013 retail sales to January 2010.
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Hornby issued a profits warning in January after sales of its train and slot-car racing sets were hit.
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Gift cards, redemptions and warm weather have led to solid and widespread growth for January retail sales, according to two reports.
Claims for unemployment insurance were high in January, sales of new homes slumped in December, and several big companies, most recently Starbucks, Boeing and Sprint Nextel, have announced thousands of job cuts.
And in January, sales spiked sharply as jewelers and investors rushed to buy ahead of the import tax hike to 6 percent, which took effect on at the end of the month.
Balmy days in December and January pushed sales of existing homes up in those months while freezing temperatures in February deterred potential house-hunters, That meant fewer sales to be completed (and counted) in March.
Meanwhile, January retail sales data, released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, showed total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 5.6 percent unadjusted year-over-year and 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month.
As a result, sales of used videogame products were 24.7% of fiscal 2007 (ended January 2007) sales, but represented 44.3% of total gross profits.
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said total sales grew by 2.1% in January, with food sales up by 5.2% on a year ago.
New home sales plunged a totally unexpected 11% in January, existing home sales were down an unexpected 7.2%, pending home sales fell 7.6%.
General Motors and Chrysler both grew their January U.S. sales by 23%, while Ford Motors expanded their sales by 13% in January.
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The Japanese car firm announced 800 job losses in January following poor sales in Europe.
In January 2011, sales begin in Texas and Hawaii, with additional market roll-out continuing later in 2011.
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