On the other hand the post-acquisition management will be very poor as Chinese firms learn the strategic and conceptual ins and outs of negotiating the front end of hardgoods in developed markets. ❋ Sun Bin (2005)
And then the make shift to the hardgoods could still be on the comp hopefully someday?
U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, and hardgoods, such as welding equipment and supplies. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The company's Sam's Club segment offers merchandise comprising hardgoods, softgoods, and selected private-label items under the Member's Mark, Bakers & Chefs, and Sam's Club brands through warehouse membership clubs in the United States, as well as through samsclub.com.
We produced positive same store sales in both our apparel and footwear categories for the quarter, while our hardgoods category comped slightly down.
We reset our cat hardgoods assortment in the first quarter and have seen improved results in that category post-reset.
Total same-store sales increased 9% in the quarter, with hardgoods up 11% and gas and rent up 7%. ❋ Unknown (2011)
ARG - News, through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, and hardgoods, such as welding equipment and supplies.
The answer to your question is, it is really within the AUR, it's just higher quality goods going into basket within both hardgoods, as well as within consumables.
Footwear and hardgoods categories sales at Big 5 also dropped in the low single-digit range.
In hardgoods, we continue to see sustain momentum in our innovative offerings across the key categories and in our exclusive and proprietary brands, within the categories we are focused on optimizing the good, better, best assortment and we are seeing strengths in the best brands, including Bayer, Advantage and Advantix flea and tick, Martha Stewart, KONG and GNC.
On the hardgoods side in-house, yeah, to the degree that we can grow that, there are a lot of smaller vendors there.
It outpaced on a comp perspective the average which was a 5, but hardgoods was still comping positive and still within the category was -- I would call it a trade-up, however, we want to put it under best selling.
The sales mix for the quarter including consumables at 52.2%, hardgoods at 33.6%, services at 12%, live pets at 1.7% and other revenue at 0.6%.
And we simply said that's not good for the company long term, because you can imagine the customer gets really smart, and they end up taking that discount to the lowest margin hardgoods in the store.
Skateboarding, he was the director of hardgoods product management for Burton Snowboards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
About Airgas, Inc. Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, and hardgoods, such as welding equipment and supplies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
EXPERIENCE: National sales experience in both softgoods and hardgoods as well as retail marketing. ❋ Mike Lewis (2010)
