But Hershey executives say their "hand-to-mouth" products are boosting company sales because people eat their candy more often, not necessarily more each time.
Notably, the company reported sales of its mobile solutions products and applications more than doubled.
In addition to local sales, the company exports its products to Belgium and Italy.
To penetrate the market in any meaningful way, a company must manufacture its products and develop a proprietary sales and service staff in China.
The company said sales were particularly disappointing in electronics, movies, books and music products whose sales have migrated most significantly to the Internet.
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The company said it immediately stopped phone sales of the products and began efforts to identify impacted customers to provide full refunds.
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Much of Microsoft's revenue growth was eaten up by an increase in spending on sales and marketing, while stronger earnings at the Windows division were partly offset by a decline in sales of the company's Office products.
The company could once rely on growing sales for its hit products even after their hype-fueled launches.
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The SEC notes that STEC shares rallied more than 800% from January to August 2009 as the company posted higher revenues, sales and margins for its products, in particular its ZeusIOPS solid-state drive.
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His iron and steel holding company Metinvest is feeling brunt of downturn with sales of finished products down by 50%.
Last week, the company announced better than expected sales, mostly due to its products that help the heart, such as defibrillators and pacemakers.
The company said that while the sale of new products was impressive, sales of its older products were soft as a result of the sluggish economy.
Moving forward with the establishment of Samsung Display Corporation, the company will continue to enhance profitability by expanding sales of premium panel products such 3D, large size and LED panels, while smartphone demand is expected to continue to fuel OLED panel sales.
It is now the company that derives by far the greatest percentage of its sales from new products.
In order for Apple the business to continue to drive sales and earnings, the company has to introduce either new products or a new product category.
The company said improvements in margin from sales of NAND Flash and NOR Flash products were offset by slight declines in margins from sales of DRAM products.
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This is an important sector as it represents higher margin sales than their hardware products, and it suggests the company is seeing the benefits of its recent acquisition of Perot Systems.
In the first quarter, Reliance attributed improved gross margins to strong pricing of carbon steel products, which accounted for 46.0% of the company's sales in 2007.
In order to optimize the supply chain for new products, the company took back NOOK Simple Touch inventory following the previously announced holiday sales shortfall.
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Rachel Leheny: Genentech has the broadest product portfolio of any other biotechnology company, and of those products Rituxan and Herceptin do have the bulk of growth in sales.
As an old salesman, running a sales driven company, nothing infuriated me more than watching salesmen discounting perfectly good products because it was easier than uncovering and addressing the real objection.
Looking to stimulate growth, the company created a sales-and-distribution center in China with the goal of distributing global products locally.
The company's rule of thumb used to be that 30% of sales should come from products introduced in the last four years.
One possible problem the company identified was a mismatch between what doctors expected based on sales pitches, and what the products delivered.
Shortly after stepping in as vice president of sales at TAP Pharmaceutical Products in early 1995, he began to suspect the company was conspiring with doctors to overcharge the U.S. government's Medicare program by tens of millions of dollars.
In this case, the company may need tens of millions of dollars to enter new markets, expand sales or add new products.
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Why doesn't Apple, a company so irritatingly up to date in its products and marketing, update its worldview when it comes to sales?
In 1989 Jon launched his first company, Goldmine, with one of the earliest products in the space between collaboration, contact management and sales force automation.
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Earlier this month the company said it would license at least 24 products in emerging markets through a new unit created to boost sales outside of the U.S. Approximately a fifth of the firm's pharmaceutical sales come from emerging markets.
The Luxembourg-based company said that results in the third quarter were affected by a lower level of sales of seamless pipe products and higher production costs.
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