The industry posted a 6.4 percent drop in day-for-day sales of domestic cars for the last third of September.

Department stores posted a 1.2 percent increase in sales on top of a 1.4 percent gain in April.

Patricia Scordio owns a construction company with 18 employees that posted $1.6 million in sales last year.

Lotaburger posted $30 million in sales and seventy-five locations throughout New Mexico at the time of the 2003 sale.

Ames posted a 4.1 percent gain in same-store sales, while Hills reported a 4.8 percent increase.

He noted that the company was posting double-digit declines in sales of ready-to-eat cereals.

The West posted the only increase in sales, up seven-tenths of 1 percent, to 139,000 units, after falling 3.5 percent a month earlier.

Kollmorgen posted $301 million in sales in 1987, a 5.7 percent decline from the previous year.

Cox Television posted $617 million in sales, while the radio unit had $395 million.

Fiat's car unit posted a drop in sales and an operating loss of 334 million euros.