By region, it expects a mid-teens percentage increase in sales in the Americas, a mid-twenties percentage increase in both Asia-Pacific and Europe, and a modest sales decline in Japan.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, an expected high-single-digit percentage increase in worldwide net sales includes sales growth in all regions, ranging from a mid-teens percentage increase in Asia-Pacific to a low-single-digit increase in Japan.
Our rule of thumb is that every one percentage increase or decrease in nominal GDP translates into one-to-one-and-a-half percentage point increase or decrease in tech spending by the private sector.
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Not everyone is convinced that using formula in this way, however briefly, is going to increase that percentage.
For marketers, we can use this technique to increase the percentage of people that show up for in-person and on-line events.
Emerging markets now account for 11% of sales, but Nike has stated that they want to increase that percentage to 40%.
The company not only stands to win new subscribers, but also to increase the percentage of its customers who pay for data service each month.
Their coupons are not directly taxed, but they can raise your Medicare premiums and increase the percentage of your Social Security benefit subject to tax.
While 39% plan to hire full time workers in the next year, 21% expect to increase the percentage of contract or temp workers that they employ.
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In addition, she decides to increase the percentage of her salary that she will save by 1% each year until she will be saving 10% beginning her fifth year.
The Nevada legislature has voted to increase the percentage of renewable resources in how the state produces electricity in four out of the last five sessions, according to the National Governors Association.
To address relatively low rates of women in the workforce, Jordan will work to increase the percentage of women workers, particularly university graduates, from 14.7% to 25% of the workforce, in the next three years.
My hunch is that at current tax levels, a higher tax on earned income, and perhaps dividends would increase the tax take but by much less than the percentage increase in the tax rates.
Even sales as high as 15.5 million this year would represent only a 7-percent increase over 2012, or just barely more than half the percentage increase in 2012 over 2011.
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As even conservative economists have said, the American Jobs Act would create nearly two million jobs, lower our unemployment rate by one full percentage point and increase our GDP by two percentage points.
Well, it turns out that the highest percentage increase in employment was in New Mexico!
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For three months in a row the percentage increase in average hourly earnings was 0.3 percent.
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This year the fourth quarter included an extra selling week that boosts the percentage increase.
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For water customers, utilities calculate the surcharge by applying a percentage increase to billed revenues.
The largest percentage increase was for "other households", which rose 28% between 2001 and 2011.
The seasonally-adjusted percentage increase in new home sales registered in January was the biggest since 1993.
This represents a net increase of 12 percentage points in protectionist sentiment between 1997 and 1998.
In my first year, we achieved the largest percentage increase in the VA budget in 30 years.
The percentage increase, however, was marginally better for women than men, so the gap is shrinking slowly.
The dozen authorities with the highest percentage increase in the white British population are almost all found in eastern England.
Some countries have seen an increase of 20 percentage points in the share of children finishing secondary school.
More people owned their home outright, an increase of two percentage points to 31%, or 7.2 million households.
In fact, programs in India and Singapore experienced the largest percentage increase in the number of GMAT scores reported between 2005-2009.
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However, as Kayak gets more partners on board this scheme, we expect to see a gradual increase in the percentage contribution.
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The purpose was to give seniors an equal percentage increase in benefits so they would be able to keep up with inflation.
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