The canned foods industry generated more than $14.5 billion in sales in the late 1990s
The industry's leading company in the late 1990s was Life Style Furnishings with sales of more than $2 billion. The company employed 30,000 people.
Through the 1990s, sales continuously improved, attributable in part to the increasing popularity of designer sunglasses and to technological innovations in the development of contact lenses.
Bra sales rose by 50 percent in the last half of the 1990s, compared with 20 percent for the apparel industry as a whole. The introduction of new lines of sports bras contributed to this increase.
Showing only modest gains in the early 1990s, industry sales hit $1.73 billion in 1994 but then drew back to $1.67 billion in 1995, when manufacturers reported sluggish retail sales. By 1997, sales were back up to $1.8 billion
sales dropped during the early and mid-1990s, due to factors such as animal rights campaigns, warm winters, and a glut in the international fur market
market share
The company had 1,900 employees and sales of $350 million in the late 1990s.
A company's sales are important to the retail industry because it shows and maps the amount of money that is going into the company and how much they are making from profits.
Juvenile footwear sales slowed in the early 1990s
In the late 1990s, pens alone generated $1.7 billion in annual sales, according to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association.
The majority of the industry's sales, about 57 percent in the late 1990s, came from blackboards