For consumers, of course, all the sales promotions meant that they could do their holiday shopping without paying full price.

For most artists, fewer sales means less time to work, more time spent paying the rent.

However management problems and poor sales meant that they were dropped by Virgin in 1989.

Yesterday's sales mean that Hanson now has virtually no net debt.

Don't think that these sales mean that economic problems aren't hitting the gaming industry hard, however.

Plenty of other people did, if healthy sales meant anything.

For the city, sales mean money from taxes on transfers, as well as higher assessments in time.

But fat sales don't mean a thing unless your company knows how to hold on to the cash flowing through its systems.

Quicker sales will mean savings to the Government in the long run.

Of course, sales do not always mean what authors hope.