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Such a sales gain is at the high end of the company's forecast.

For most retailers, the month's sales gains over 1987 were the best of the year.

But being optimistic five years ago meant you were expected a 20 percent sales gain.

The February sales gain was the sixth in eight months.

Women are behind some of the industry's sales gains.

Wall Street had expected the retailer to report a slight sales gain.

So why did the sales gain fail to filter down to the bottom line?

"Increased traffic accounts for a large amount of our sales gains."

Ford executives said last month's sales gains gave it a push into 1997.

In both months, however, the sales gains were led by high gasoline prices, rather than volume.

The company attributed the increase to strong sales gains in Europe and reduced costs.

The South posted the biggest sales gain, up 6.4 percent, to 1.49 million units.

And Suzuki was one of only six brands to have had sales gains in 1991.

He predicted a 3 percent sales gain in 1990.

We think that this could be a very profitable season even if sales gains are small."

Most analysts and merchants were expecting sales gains of 4 to 6 percent.

Several retailers continued to report sales gains well under the rate of inflation, which has been 4.5 percent so far this year.

The stores posted average sales gains of 7.3 percent in the metropolitan area.

Despite the sales gains, though, foreign expansion is hurting the bottom line in the short term.

One bright spot for the company was its wireless operations, which reported a sales gain of 11.4 percent.

Even The Limited, which has had several tough years, reported a sales gain of 9 percent.

Even struggling Nissan managed an overall sales gain of 4 percent.

Many of the nation's largest retailers reported double-digit sales gains last month.

Japanese companies assembling cars in this country reported continuing sales gains.

"But the 5.6 percent sales gain for the merged entity was not very good.