Sentence examples for improvement sector from inspiring English sources

"While investors will be pleased with the solid operating performance, it is difficult to see much improvement in the home improvement sector," a Sanford C. Bernstein & Company analyst, Colin McGranahan, wrote in a note to clients.

While falling sales and prices for homes and the troubles in the subprime mortgage market have pressured the home improvement sector, Lowe's turned in better results than Home Depot, which said last week that quarterly earnings fell 15percentt on a 2percentt sales drop.

The real issue here is whether the home improvement sector is reaching saturation.

With the U.S. retail home improvement sector saturated, Nardelli since 2004 has plowed $2 billion into acquisitions.

Fassler kept his "Buy" rating on Home Depot, however, saying it has the edge in terms of sales productivity, profitability and financial returns in the home improvement sector.

I recently learned of a small business owner in the home improvement sector, who is giving back by giving out a free home improvement contract for every 10 sales he makes.

Because of the housing market slump, retailers in the home building and home improvement sectors were hit particularly hard.

The housing and homeless service improvement and sector support scheme, which provides grants for homelessness and community assistance, will also be reduced from $8m to $5m.

The home improvement retail sector, naturally, has been one of the hardest hit by the housing crisis.

More importantly, Thursday's GDP report, though encouraging in that it showed the economy grew 3.5%, primarily showed improvement in sectors that have received a hefty dose of government support.

There were signs of that this past week, as leaders of three major industry trade groups touted safety improvements the sector has voluntarily made since the spill.