Purkayastha also wants to extend the selling season for truffles by expanding PAQ's product line with longer-lasting truffle oils and jams.
Here as well is a chart of what a seasonally adjusted bottom near the middle of the selling season might look like.
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"If we could have done a better job accomplishing that in the holiday launch or in the selling season following, that certainly would have made a positive difference, " Ms. Reller said.
Like the start of the football season, the Christmas selling season keeps getting nudged back further in the calendar.
During the Christmas selling season we stayed at a nearby hotel and dedicated our lives to servicing the throngs that would visit the toy department.
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Spring marks the peak selling season for home improvement retailers with home construction and rebuilding activity picking up after the long, hard winter.
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Residential sales often rise sharply during the spring, usually the peak selling season in New York.
My projections assume that the store transformation program will stop before the Christmas selling season begins.
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The spring selling season is like Christmas for home-improvement retailers, and this year, Christmas is coming early.
These lines go into the fall selling season largely refreshed along with its new Cadillac and other models.
Beyond raising awareness, there are other ways independent retailers can boost their bottom line during the holiday selling season.
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Meanwhile, credit card issuers are coming up with new ways to incentivize mobile purchases for the Christmas selling season.
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December is usually a big month, then sales typically drop in January and February until the spring selling season begins.
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This leads me to expect an even more aggressive promotional position for the holiday selling season that actually begins before Thanksgiving.
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The inventory is likely to rise in coming months, as more homeowners list their properties in time for the spring selling season.
Disruption of production and absenteeism have forced the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association to postpone the start of the tobacco selling season, due to begin on 26 April.
After a rough start to the high selling season of spring and summer, due to weather and other outside variables, that price drop is slowing down and stabilizing.
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That push-pull of supply vs. demand will keep prices elevated as we head into the spring selling season and its looking like that shopping season will be weaker this year than last.
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While I expect a stepped up promotional program for the current important Christmas selling season, I continue to believe that the company will report in the fourth quarter drop in sales of about 20% from the previous year.
But the jury is still out on how the retailer will fare for the holiday-selling season.
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While sales of A-B's core brands are down 1% year-to-date, they've edged up in May, just ahead of the important summer selling season.
As the 2007 Christmas selling season loomed, Hulme was scrambling.
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By the end of September, HMV plans to have converted 150 outlets - it's larger stores - into the new electronics-heavy format, in time for the vital Christmas selling season.
In a positive signal for the holiday season, clothing retailers including American Eagle Outfitters Inc. and Ann Inc. on Wednesday said the critical holiday selling season was off to a good start, and they had made up sales lost earlier this month to superstorm Sandy.
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"Upfront" pricing refers the rates at which networks sell ads during their annual selling season in the spring.
According to the market research firm the NPD Group, overall consumer spending fell 7% in the pre-Christmas holiday selling season, and sales got worse as the period went along.
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Michael Niemira, chief economist of the International Council of Shopping Centers, sees a ho-hum spring selling season and expects sales growth in the 2013 spring season to be weaker than in 2012.
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The important Christmas 2011 selling season was very disappointing impairing full year profits.
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The Eagles have no funds to remain operating beyond the end of the season and face the prospect of selling off their players to generate income, while the short-term contract of manager Paul Hart has expired.
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