Still, Ralph Lauren offered a sales forecast that indicates that it expects sales to improve.
During a conference call last December, he also announced a cut in 2011 sales forecast.
As a result, Wu lowered his fourth-quarter iPad sales forecast to 13.5 million from 15 million.
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Toyota spokesman Tomomi Imai says the company is unlikely to meet its sales forecast this year.
This means putting together a sales forecast and a budget, as well as two to five strategic objectives.
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Ford is sticking to its 12.3 million sales forecast for 2010, he added.
The world's largest maker of computer chips, Intel, has cut its three-month sales forecast and withdrawn its full-year predictions.
This would add 6% to our global unit sales forecast for the iPhone 4 (61 million iPhones instead of 58 million).
Capcom has lowered the sales forecast for DmC, its new Devil May Cry reboot, from 2 million units to 1.2 million units.
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The NAR existing-home sales forecast for the first quarter was about 5.2 million sales, gradually rising over the course of 2011 and into 2012.
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The company, which designs and manufactures generators, hiked its full-year sales forecast due to the major power outages in the wake of the storm.
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Time and again, traders work themselves into a frenzy, buying or selling based on whether the world's largest retailer hit its latest comparable-store sales forecast.
Powers last week lowered its auto sales forecast for the rest of the year as well as 2011 because of worries of a double-dip recession.
And the damage was even greater in the once-hot high-technology sector, which has also been discouraged by a poor sales forecast for leading computer manufacturer Dell.
The sales forecast, although very modest, takes into account the problems that the automaker is likely to face in the domestic market as well as in China.
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Nintendo, also behind the Donkey Kong and Zelda games, lowered its full year sales forecast for Wii U game software units to 16 million from 24 million.
In fact, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu raised his fourth-quarter iPhone sales forecast to 28 million from 26 million, with Mac sales now seen at 5.2 million, up from 5 million.
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The car company delayed the launch of its first and only commercially available model, the plug-in hybrid called Karma, and that caused A123 to lower its 2011 sales forecast significantly.
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The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target, which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
The company last week said it sold 2.5 million Kinects in the first 25 days of retail sales, and continues to forecast sales of 5 million units by year end.
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As impulse sales are forecast to continue to rise in 2012 (albeit not into double figures), brands must work harder for their share of the grab and go market.
Of more concern to investors is Apple sales growth forecast for the current quarter of around 7 percent far from the 50-percent-plus rate it's often hit in recent years.
Although in 2013 smartphone sales are forecast to double to 400 million units, prices are expected to drop sharply, wiping away margins and earnings growth for the handset and chipset makers.
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Jon had a different idea: what if there was a single application that could, as a team, manage customer records, manage calendars, track sales interactions, and even be used to track and forecast sales, and generally become a common sales and marketing automation system?
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For example, if you're interviewing for a finance position working closely with the sales division, it's likely you'll be asked about your ability to forecast sales.
Japan's Honda has reported a jump in third-quarter profits as US sales recover, but cut its annual forecast as sales in China and Europe drop.
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While we have revised our forecast for global notebook and netbooks sales, we still forecast slow growth in the future.
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