Online retailers are taking a more coordinated approach to offering promotional sales.

"We have, however, had to be more aggressive in our promotional sales during this Christmas season than had been expected," he added.

The biggest savings will be at promotional sales, but even after the sales, the shops will have bargains.

While analysts credited the company with efficient cost-cutting and promotional sales, many questioned whether such measures could sustain earnings growth this year.

Apparel prices fell sharply on widespread promotional sales for footwear and for women's and girl's clothing.

She added that it would ignite a forest fire of earlier shows, earlier deliveries to retailers and earlier promotional sales in stores.

Even the 207,000 figure was not accepted by Britain's Audit Bureau of Circulations, because it included promotional sales.

Mrs. Vogel, 39, is the director of promotional sales for Polo Ralph Lauren in New York.

For this holiday season, Mr. Gould has reduced the number of promotional sales significantly this month and next, looking for less cluttered, more upscale surroundings.

POS software can also allow for functions such as pre-planned promotional sales, manufacturer coupon validation, foreign currency handling and multiple payment types.

In mid-2009, a 12" resin sculpt of the main character from Capcom's upcoming game Dark Void was produced exclusively for promotional sales.

The 32,000-square-foot store, one of the largest additions to Broadway's expanding roll call of retailers, opened with a flurry of promotional sales and a shopping-spree giveaway.

February's improved business was attributed to colder weather, which helped sales of outerwear and wool apparel, and to the promotional sales of the Presidents' Day holiday.

Leisure travel is holding up "reasonably well," although fares and revenue are down through a combination of promotional sales and intensifying consumer price comparison shopping on the Internet, he said.

In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations.

Generally, sales of durable goods are expected to remain sluggish, and further promotional sales could eat into profits during the holiday retail season, which accounts for up to half of retailers' annual earnings.

Old-fashioned customer loyalty is fading, and as with most of suburbia, two-income city commuting families, discount malls, saturation national advertising and promotional sales gimmicks have all resulted in diverting local clientele.

Conditional weather insurance gives companies the ability to make promotional sales offers based on the weather; this form of insurance used by businesses and organizations to increase publicity and drive traffic and sales.

"If Hanukkah had been at the beginning of the month, those who received a gift card for Hanukkah would have been tempted to spend it before Christmas, and ride the promotional sales," Ms. Nebons said.

He also was sponsored as a surfing competitor for Hobie and Hansen surfboards and participated in contest events on the east and west coasts (and Caribbean) as well as promotional sales activities for those manufacturers from 1965 to 1970.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS - Named Mike McCall vice president of marketing and sales; Dave Recher director of promotional sales, and Ken Ferriter director of ticket sales.

Throughout the day, the bidders followed Richard Schlesinger, the president of Top Hundred Promotional Sales, who presided over the auction, as he moved through the warehouse, standing near each item as it was auctioned and conducting the sale in a rapid, staccato style.

I feel that the Commission has presented us with a well-balanced text which will provide an appropriate solution to the problem of the absence of a genuine internal market for promotions and promotional sales and of the market being governed by a variety of different laws which ban in some countries behaviour which is permitted in others.