They were up by 2% as a result of market expansion, but same-store sales were down by 5%.
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In 1979 Business Week proclaimed the death of stocks, failing to see that waiting around the corner was the largest, longest stock market expansion in history.
But the market expansion of renewable technologies has made possible cost reductions in some sectors, such as wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), and such trends are set to continue.
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But he too brought no market guidance or new direction to HP, merely continuing with adjacent market expansion by buying a traditional IT service organization (EDS) to support field-based PCs.
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While declining to provide details about the investments, the Be officials said the money will go towards the company's market expansion strategy, which among other things, calls for stepping up marketing programs for release four of its multimedia PC operating system.
Germany was the first test market for an expansion strategy that might be used elsewhere.
Focusing on a single market endangers future expansion because other businesses can lock down neighboring markets before you get there.
Global airline passenger traffic is on track for double-digit growth this year as a rebounding Chinese market leads broader expansion by carriers in Asia and the Middle East.
The CF will reflect the outcomes of strategic decisions (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), served market choices and geographical expansion, and so forth.
He succeeded through intensification in the UK market combined with worldwide expansion.
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During the dot-com bubble and the recent credit expansion, market institutions that normally acted as a corrective force were giving in to the frenzy instead.
Each year, I analyze the primary drivers of asset class long-term returns including risk as measured by implied volatility, expected earnings growth based on GDP estimates and foreign business expansion, market implied inflation based on the spread between long-term Treasury Bonds and TIPS, and current cash payouts from interest and dividends on bond and stock indexes.
Mr Delaney said in the newsletter that Chief Pleas, the island's government, needed to make the tourist market more open to encourage expansion.
Lifeline users have been a source of subscriber growth in the otherwise saturated U.S. market and helped fuel the expansion of companies like TracFone, now the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
My point here is that open market purchases and the associated expansion of money growth rate are accepted as normal or routine Fed policy so long as interest rates have some room to decline in the process.
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There are several reasons why MINI could be attractive to growth investors, including its expected long-term earnings growth of 14%, its strong market leadership position, geographic expansion opportunities and its focus on the core portable storage leasing business with predictable recurring revenue and high margins.
Analysts say that the smear campaign could be linked to Apple's expansion in the Chinese market.
La Caixa is looking abroad because room for expansion in its domestic market is limited.
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Pinewood wanted a local partner to help make the expansion into the Chinese market as effective as possible.
The rapid growth and expansion in the mobile market exposes consumers to a wide variety of privacy invasions.
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Private providers complain that the practice of in-sourcing acts as an impediment to the expansion of the forensic market.
The expansion of the addressable market for anti-virus software should bolster Symantec stock.
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Given the expansion of the derivatives market, the volatility is clearly higher now than it has been in past market declines.
In the Caribbean, the widespread media expansion and the local market situation have led to an alarming crisis in local programming.
But poor management systems, board issues and a host of other problems prevented the company from exploiting the market and raising capital for further expansion.
Over the last several quarters, the company has gained market share and delivered robust margin expansion year over year, which resulted in significant earnings growth.
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This fascination is also one of the significant challenges I see facing CEB members and the business community at large: global expansion and leveraging emerging market investments.
I'm proud of Britain's role in driving forward the single market and the EU's eastward expansion.
While Facebook has done well on mobile so far, there are number of challenges to its continued expansion into the mobile phone market.
The iPad mini will be a crucial expansion of the greater iPad market, much like the iPod Nano once was for the iPod line.
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