Apple this morning is launching sales of the iPad Mini, triggering the usual Street speculation on opening weekend sales.
The Hong Kong store opened in the last weekend of the quarter and set a company record for the highest opening day sales.
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Although there has been much buzz around opening weekend sales, Wall Street will be closely watching the iPad in the second half of this year.
The game played like this for much of the 1990s, with studios sometimes demanding larger cuts of opening weekend sales even as the films played in theaters for smaller amounts of time.
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In recent months, Microsoft also said it was opening Windows Phone app sales in more than a dozen countries including China.
There was disappointment, that's why in the opening round of ticket sales we committed to getting as many people who were in those initial ballots across the line.
But Lebret, 45, whose U.S. tour began seven years ago and has bracketed a spell opening the Far East sales office in Tokyo, is one example of Mouton's worldliness.
Opening weekend iPhone 5 sales fell short of estimates.
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But a total blackout of the film at the chains is unlikely and for now it will be a matter of how a lack of online ticket sales effects opening weekend revenue.
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Shares of some retailers fell before the opening bell with surprisingly bad sales numbers during the crucial holiday period.
Costco (COST) on the other hand, announced that net income rose 2.6% with 10% higher comparable sales and is opening lower due to missed expectations.
As president of Payless ShoeSource from 1999 to 2002 Hicks learned to examine the market for new sales space, opening 160 in-store outlets in Shopko locations.
Holland, 36, used to spur on his sales force by opening his wallet and waving a credit card, yelling, "We need to be as ubiquitous as Visa!"
Michael Bay must have zombie-raising powers, because 3D is back from the dead with Transformers: Dark of the Moon , which pulled in about 60% 3D ticket sales in its opening weekend.
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Apple has also neglected to provide any sales figures beyond the opening weekend numbers.
Academy rules allow an album to be nominated outside its usual qualification period if it did the bulk of its sales during the next opening.
Strike three came a half-hour after the opening bell Wednesday, with new home sales.
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Analysts have blamed supply-chain problems for lower-than-expected initial iPhone 5 sales of five million in the opening weekend.
But customs officers can hardly start opening all the post entering a country as sales over the Net expand.
If you are planning to attend, my advice is move sooner rather than later as official tickets sales were never discounted below to the opening price for London, and the widest and best selection of events and seats is right now.
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The pent-up demand for the iPhone was immense given that Apple posted its best-ever iPhone launch in China last month, posting sales of over 2 million units in the opening weekend itself.
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Recently, the firm announced the opening of 25 new stores in China and now expects China sales to increase by 75% in fiscal 2011.
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The increased clout of compliance officers is causing some tension between these people and sales staff, whose livelihoods depend on customers' opening and using accounts.
Time honored traditions such as store closings on Thanksgiving, opening at a 5:00am, and starting Black Friday sales on Black Friday are no longer being followed.
Worse, McDonald's was opening stores too fast, with each new one eating into the sales of existing outlets.
"I've been waiting for this for months, " said Rayanne Ella, 32, a Jersey City sales manager who dined with her entire family at the opening.
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The direct sales model also lends itself to fostering personal relationships between sales associates and their clients, creating brand loyalty and opening up opportunities for expansion through networking and word of mouth.
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While this figure is about 25% higher than the 4 million iPhone 4S units it had sold during the opening weekend last year, it has decelerated significantly from the high sales growth recorded back then.
Shortly after the opening bell, the National Association of Realtors reported its existing home sales data for December, and, though analysts anticipated another decline, sales actually jumped, to 4.7 million, from 4.5 million the prior month.
Sales of personal seat licenses for the New York Giants' new stadium opening in 2010 have been slow in some areas.
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