And while the outlook for online grocers in general is still optimistic — Forrester says the industry generated about $6.2 billion in 2007 and should hit $13.7 billion by 2012 — Ms. Mulpuru said they faced challenges in the short term.
All told, the car wash industry generated $8.16 billion in revenue and employed 176,790 people.
Thirty years ago, industry generated about 23% of French jobs, now it is only 12%.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the industry generated 10,000 jobs annually.
The state's tourism industry generated $5 billion in 1999, up from $3.8 billion in 1992, Mr. Dombroskas said Monday.
Last year, the American spa industry generated $10.9 billion in revenue, up from $7 billion in 2003, the group said.
Last year, according to the BBC, the Chinese wedding industry generated revenues of some eighty billion dollars.
"Our industry generated $29.8 billion dollars of retail sales in 2011," said Peter MacGillivray, a SEMA vice president.
Still, even excluding those vastly popular pursuits, the industry generated more than $18 billion in revenues in 2000 -- $213 million from the sale of hiking boots alone.
Still, TotalFinaElf's purchase is a measure of the excitement in the industry generated by the Kashagan field, situated in shallow water in the northeastern Caspian.
It has been looking at ways to boost competition in the current account and small business banking sectors, through which the industry generated £14bn of revenue in 2014.
