Sentence examples for front sales from inspiring English sources

And with many companies deep in the red, UPS is holding its own on the earnings front: Sales for the first six months of the year rose to $15.26 billion from $14.94 billion in the year-earlier period, while net income was virtually flat at $1.04 billion.

With "Friends" secured, the executive said, NBC, which will easily win the current season in the young adult categories, can once again dominate the up-front sales.

True, the operators of network television in the US did brisker business than expected in the recent "up-front" sales of air time for the new season beginning in September.

"It is totally vital to their up-front sales," one network executive said, referring to the advertising sales that take place in the spring, in which sponsors buy up the majority of network commercial time.

Add in "the dot-com fallout" and the fact that "the economy stinks," Mr. Mandese said, and a 4 to 7percentt decline in up-front sales -- to $7.8 billion or less, from a record last spring of more than $8.1 billion -- is conceivable.

At the same time, software vendors came to realize that they were missing out on potentially lucrative sales to small and midsize companies that could not handle the usual cash-up-front sales terms -- including the burgeoning number of start-ups diving into Internet commerce.

Pick one with an ultra-low expense ratio and no up-front sales charge, or load.

The pain of an up-front sales load is felt immediately.

Pauzé Tombstone's prospectus figures annual expenses at 1.13% of assets for Class A shares bought with an up-front sales load.

Class A shares typically charge an up-front sales load; Class B shares tack on the fee when you sell the fund.

While the two funds have hefty up-front sales charges, Federated Strategic Value runs annual expenses of only 47 cents for every $100 in assets, compared with $1.47 for the average diversified equity fund.