Department store chain Debenhams lost £30m of sales during the disruption caused by the snow last month, as Christmas customers struggled to reach the high street.
The idea of Clari remaining, in Byrne's words, "laser focused" on sales and CRM disruption, while expanding to more than just sales reps, has been one of the attractive features for investors.
In the UK, business has recovered from the summer disruption and sales are rising, Hornby said.
There are risks of delays to the deal's closing (due in August 2017) and of disruption to sales execution within HPE Software before or around closing.
M&S would only say the disruption cut sales of general merchandise, which includes clothing and homewares, by 3% and food by 1%, with the divisions reporting underlying growth of 3.8%and1.8%8%.
Disruption to sales will be greater than expected and group revenue and profits for this year will be lower than forecast, Hornby said on Tuesday, in an unscheduled statement two weeks before its first-half results.
Dell, which sells PC's based on Intel's Centrino wireless chip set, said it did not foresee any disruption in sales of its notebook computers in China if Intel failed to comply with the Chinese standard, known as WAPI.
Mr. Glickman also said he expected that Aventis, the company that marketed StarLink seed, which is designed to resist the European corn borer and may be legally used in animal feed in the United States, probably will face litigation over the recalls and the disruption of sales and exports.
But in Dell's case, it's fiscal third quarter ends in October, giving it an extra month to garner sales after the business disruption caused by the attacks.
At least seven districts noted actual or expected disruptions to sales and production as a result of the disaster in Japan.
