Sentence examples for slashed sales from inspiring English sources

Next stunned the City in late March when it slashed sales forecasts for the year and predicted tough trading caused by the slowing economy and falling consumer confidence.

Nevertheless, lawyers and brokers who have seen the drama play out describe qualified buyers who walk away frustrated, families who become permanently estranged over asking prices, and delays that siphon money in the form of carrying costs, legal fees and slashed sales prices.

The company slashed sales and marketing costs by 67% to $11 million and grew revenue 32% to $62 million.

One of those fancy analyst types, someone at Cowen and Company, has slashed sales expectations by a little more than 50percentt.

Last month, rival Japanese gaming giant Nintendo reported a sales target miss for its controller/console combo, the Wii U — and slashed sales expectations by almost 70% — as it struggles to compete with, on the one hand, home console heavyweights like the PS4 and, at the other end of the market, smartphones being used for casual gaming.

Toshiba just slashed sales expectations of HD DVD players by nearly 50percentt in response to slower-than-anticipated sales in the U.S. The slow sales of the company's HD DVD players in the U.S. will negatively affect the global position of the high-definition format, the company said.

Even a rating a fraction that of, say, Yahoo Japan would help them greatly to cut their costs of capital.Although they have no intention of forsaking their core businesses, Japan's big electronics groups see Internet portals as a way of slashing sales and overhead costs, and gaining access to new markets, as well as of raising their dismal share prices.

But with America threatening to strike Iraq, and with sporadic boycotts slashing sales of American goods, there is only one American product whose appeal remains undented: education.Not only have venerable schools such as the American University in Cairo and in Beirut (AUC and AUB) prospered through decades of turbulence.

Analysts are slashing sales forecasts for Detroit's biggest car companies; an inventory overhang is forcing Ford and General Motors to cut fourth-quarter production.

A pair of giant, U.S. government-funded studies could drive changes in psychiatry that could slash sales of some of the world's biggest drug companies.

It's not "slash sales," he says, disdainfully referring to the popular flash sale format of discounting otherwise high-priced items to bring luxury goods to larger audiences.