Sentence examples for slight sales from inspiring English sources
Major sectors like apparel, luxury goods and jewelry experienced slight sales declines.
Ford reported a slight sales increase of 1.6 percent in December, as safety recalls for its new Escape S.U.V. and Fusion sedan depressed its overall results.
Last month, Apple forecast a slight sales increase for the holiday season, seeing no sign that an industrywide slump in PC sales would soon be reversed.
Sales for the quarter, which ended May 27, fell 9percentto to $1.04 billion, prompting Levi to abandon its previous goal of a slight sales increase this year.
New Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for the second half of last year will be released today and are expected to show a slight sales drop.
He attributed the relatively slight sales decline (compared with the steep falloff in shoppers) to the deluge of discounts that led shoppers to buy more.
The steadily rising number of claims -- especially involving something as intimidating as asbestos -- comes at a difficult time for the Big Three, which are already facing slight profits, sales dependent on costly incentives, hefty pension liabilities and falling credit ratings.
DaimlerChrysler, which includes the Chrysler Group and Mercedes-Benz, posted a slight increase in sales, 0.68percentt, helped by strong sales in the Chrysler Group for its new 300C sedan and the Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle.
Both Target and Kohl's Stores had previously predicted a slight decline in sales for the month because of an accounting peculiarity in the calendar that moved sales days that had been in December in 2000 into November last year.
But it also said it expected a slight improvement in sales in the fourth quarter and extended mild hopes for a recovery in chip sales by the middle of 2002.
Hormels refrigerated segment was the only one to record a slight decline in sales because of softer demand for hams, bacon and commodity pork, and a weak food-service-sales environment, but the divisions profits jumped more than 50% on favorable spreads between hog costs and primal values.
