The company warned shortly after the New Year that a bad season of holiday sales will lead to lower than expected adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
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The culmination of all of the pre-season action was a level of excitement that pushed season ticket sales to more than 22, 000 prior to the start of the inaugural season.
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He said holiday season sales of its "Medal of Honor" game were disappointing, and high-profile games released this year have received poor reviews.
In June, Lord Hodge asked for a report into BBC allegations that Duff and Phelps had a conflict of interest, as one partner of the firm knew about the controversial Ticketus deal to use advance sales of season tickets to pay off the club's debt to Lloyds bank.
It will further cement a short-term brand for the Clippers that will surely fuel a record-breaking off-season of season ticket renewals and new season ticket sales.
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However, our ranking is based on the past year' earnings, and so it doesn't include the Galaxy contract, under which Beckham will get a cut of the revenue that the team makes from increased sales of shirts and season tickets, as well as of marketing contracts.
This holiday season 20% of all online sales will come from mobile devices.
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On Cyber Monday in November, traditionally seen as the start of holiday shopping season, sales transactions on eBay's mobile applications more than doubled from the year before.
One of a club's main streams of income is season ticket sales, but it is inextricably linked to performances on the pitch and in recent seasons the Imps have been at the wrong end of League Two.
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Last year, the 10 days before Christmas accounted for 24.4 percent of total GAFO retail sales in the entire holiday shopping season of November and December.
Con-way noted that the peak trucking season, which comes ahead of the U.S. holiday retail sales season, has been weak.
Con-way said that the peak trucking season, which comes ahead of the U.S. holiday retail sales season, has been weak.
Retailers reported an even balance between food and non-food, with the start of the tourist season also boosting sales.
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The fastest growing category of sales this holiday season is digital content and subscriptions, which is up 29% year-over-year.
During its brief history, the Classic has typically sold merchandise units in the tens of thousands and spurred season ticket sales for the following season.
Analyst Greger Johansson at Redeye said investors are relieved that the N8 will now be widely available to consumers ahead of the holiday season, when sales tend to be particularly high.
What's most disconcerting about the report is that it seems more interested in disrupting or dismissing what Amazon is doing (particularly noteworthy as the company is in the midst of its biggest season for Kindle sales ever).
Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch calculate that in the first week of this earnings season the number of American companies reporting better-than-expected sales outstripped the number reporting better-than-expected profits.
Upfront advertising is when advertisers buy their advertising time at the start of a season or a set advertising sales period.
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The NRF, going into this season, has predicted a sales increase of over 4% versus year ago, not record-setting but certainly stronger than GDP.
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Not only was that figure 33% higher than the figure for the next-highest game, it accounted for 23% of the season's total beer sales over seven games.
Repayment terms were out of whack with the sales season, during which months may elapse between the deadline for paying the factory's bill and the day that stores pay up.
Last year, the French knocked back a record 160m bottles of the stuff (two-thirds of worldwide sales), more than half of it during the Christmas season.
Fanatics.com, a large online retailer of those items, said sales of Jackie Robinson gear on its site since the season began increased by more than 1, 000 percent over the same time period last year.
In 2010, when online e-tailer Shangpin switched from being just a me-too discounter of end of season fashions to limited time, flash sales, revenue grew 20 times year-over-year.
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As a result, recent industry research conducted by the Edgell Knowledge Network (EKN) and eBay Local found that eight in 10 retailers expect such showrooming to average about a 5% loss of sales during the 2012 holiday season.
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Like Honda, which pulled out of Formula 1 before the season had even started, the German carmaker has seen its sales and profits tumble as a result of the global economic downturn.
Retailers can generate up to 40% of their annual sales during the holiday season.
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However, the season wound up being one of the worst ever for total sales.
About 70 percent of his sales come during the summer fishing season.
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