Sentence examples for kept inventory from inspiring English sources
Gap kept inventory below year-earlier levels, helping it avoid a third consecutive quarterly loss.
Some retailers said they expected third-quarter profits higher than forecast after they kept inventory low.
"Weakening domestic demand kept inventory accumulation high," said Stan Shipley, a Merrill Lynch economist.
The company said it sold out quickly on some items because it had kept inventory lean.
Limited said it kept inventory low, so it offered fewer price cuts, helping to widen profit margins.
Above each bodega is a room known as a contador, or counting room, originally a place where a Castilian kept inventory of his cave's contents.
In the nineteen-seventies, Toyota pioneered a way of making cars that kept inventories low and productivity high.
Increased consumer spending has kept inventories lean and is prompting factories to increase production to restock their shelves and warehouses.
But many stores kept inventories lean before the holidays, leaving less merchandise to discount, bad for bargain hunters but good for profits.
They've kept inventories low, in order to avoid being stuck with stuff they can't sell, and they've been extremely cautious about investing in new machines or new factories or new ideas.
Because companies have kept inventories relatively low, "if demand was to take off, they would have to hire additional workers and ramp up production," said Omair Sharif, United States economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
