Sentence examples for less profitable sales from inspiring English sources

Scalpers are regularly getting hundreds of dollars above face value for "Producers" tickets outside the St .James, with less covert, but no less profitable, sales going through hotel concierge desks and through ticket brokers.

The group admitted that a strong pound had forced it to slash prices for non-UK customers and rely on less profitable sales to fashion-hungry British shoppers to maintain its stellar growth rate.

The back-to-back annual gain in market share was the first since 1976, but it was made possible by zero percent financing deals and reliance on less profitable sales to corporate and rental fleets.

G.M. would have remained No. 1 easily had it not intentionally cut back on less profitable sales to rental-car companies; the company made 108,000 fewer such sales in 2007.

The automaker had projected that sales would be down on a year-over-year basis for every month of 2007 because it was intentionally cutting back on less profitable sales to rental car companies.

All three Detroit automakers said they pulled back on less-profitable sales to rental-car companies last month, but while G.M.'s dealerships sold more than enough vehicles to compensate for that reduction, Ford's and Chrysler's did not.

Mark Fields, president of Ford's Americas division, acknowledged at a dinner with reporters on Aug. 22 that dealership sales had fallen more than executives expected, at a time when Ford was cutting back on less-profitable sales to rental car companies.

G.M. fared better than Chrysler last month, partly because it increased sales to operators of large fleets, while Chrysler intentionally cut back on fleet sales, which are less profitable than sales to individual customers.

America's #2 discount department store operator also pledged to sacrifice $1 billion in annual operating profits on-going in order to sharpen prices and drive less profitable digital sales.

The company said profit was hurt by rising costs for computer parts, including memory chips, adding that a greater portion of its revenue came from consumer sales, which are less profitable than corporate sales.

"We export about 40% of our pipe mold production," says E. Roger Clark, chief executive, "and had a vague notion that these sales were less profitable than our domestic sales.