Sentence examples for sales equivalent to from inspiring English sources

Yet despite enjoying sales equivalent to more than $100 billion a year, it barely ekes out a profit (averaging a meagre 2% margin over the past decade).

There is a fat tail of very big firms: the 100 largest had sales equivalent to 35% of GDP in 2009, up from 30% in the mid-1980s.

That is why today, we propose a levy on the tobacco industry, set annually on the basis of recent sales, equivalent to 25p a pack.

As well as seeing off competition from Mandelson, Blair's first week sales – equivalent to 4p in every £1 spent at UK booksellers last week – also beat John Major's first-week sales for My Autobiography (5,415), John Prescott's for Pulling No Punches (1,202) and David Blunkett's for The Blunkett Tapes (769), said Stone.

Discount stores are widely expected to have enjoyed a strong festive season and analysts at Shore Capital predict Poundland will reveal a 12.5% rise in total sales, equivalent to about 4% when the impact of new store openings and closures is taken into account.

They are now at 59% of all ad sales, equivalent to $1.4 billion.

Less than a third, 32%, of shareholders voted against the sale, equivalent to just 5% of investors by value.

They are ready to invest heavily in a shipment of your new and improved flux capacitor - a sale equivalent to the GDP of a medium sized African nation.

The company intends to charge readers for each title, and it plans to convince the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the magazine industry's standards board, that its online sales are equivalent to newsstand sales.

Tribal stores would have to charge a sales tax equivalent to the state sales tax, getting rid of a competitive advantage that businesspeople near the reservation loathe.

A report by retail analysts Kantar notes that there was a 1.8% drop in sales last year, equivalent to 31m loaves.