Posts Tagged ‘Retail Sales’


Marketing Daily: GM Rises From The Canvas, Dances And Weaves

The automaker posted a 50% jump in sales last month, with 207,028 deliveries of Buick, GMC, Chevrolet and Cadillac. Retail sales alone were up 70%, which the company says is the highest year-over-year gain in its history. In the first two months this year, GM’s total sales have risen 36%, with the retail portion of that up 52%.

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‘Cars’ Has Crossed $8 Billion in Global Retail Sales

franchise has generated global retail sales of more than $8 billion, Walt Disney said Monday. That makes it one of the company’s top franchises at what are now $2 billion in global retail …

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Ford to increase production

SAN FRANCISCO | Ford Motor Co. says it will increase U.S. factory production by 13 percent in the first quarter because of higher sales. Vice President of U.S. Sales Ken Czubay says Ford is studying more shifts at plants that are now running on overtime. The automaker said retail sales to individual buyers rose 27 percent in January.

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2008 Retail Christmas Sales Sketchy – Consumer Confidence Could Cause Christmas Chaos

Many things are leading folks to wonder if the 2008 Christmas Retail Rush is going dive into a dismal and destructive ditch. With the current mess in the stock market many American families are quite worried about their financial viability in the upcoming future. Indeed, even those who are relatively safe might be severely cutting back this holiday Christmas shopping season.

Not long ago consumers were told to spend and go shopping to save the economy, but it does not look like the credit card indebted consumer will take such a mission as seriously as they have in the past. You see consumer confidence is at an all-time low, which is really unnatural during a Presidential Election Year, generally the economy does very well prior to the elections and drops afterwards.

Now that is not say that it will not drop significantly after the election, it still might and depending on who gets elected we will see some changes which will affect both businesses and consumers, (more…)

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