And that was just for the British hardback market.Winning the Man Booker prize also guarantees sizeable paperback sales and considerable further spin-off in terms of global sales of books, future publishing contracts and film and television rights.
Splunk has a sizeable direct sales force, too.
In Asia a sizeable bond sale from MISC, the world's largest owner of liquefied natural gas tankers, has been postponed.
These companies took a sizeable cut of sales, and had terms and conditions that could change at any time, but it was worth it for the exposure.
This is partly due to a sizeable increase in sales and marketing expenditures.
L-3 is now emerging as a sizeable defence group, with sales of $2.3 billion last year.
By the end of Year 3 the company will be generating $850,000 in sales with sizeable net profit.
Rashidah, who is now 15 and already a mother, has been the victim of an under-reported issue plaguing Malaysia's sizeable Rohingya population: the sale of young girls into forced marriages.
European consumers, still Danone's most sizeable market, lost some 2.3% in sales; Asia, meanwhile, saw sales rise 10.7%.
The direct sales industry is sizeable, with $30b in sales in the US driven by 15 million sales people, and is attracting an increasing amount of venture investment as party sales become recognized as "social selling" that can be turbocharged with technology.
The company shared the bad news on Friday night, adding that it also took a sizeable hit in fourth-quarter sales.
