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
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.
The canned foods industry generated more than $14.5 billion in sales in the late 1990s
Juvenile footwear sales slowed in the early 1990s
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
In 1990, shipments of ophthalmic goods totaled $2.27 billion, having risen from $1.28 billion in 1982, though with a slight downturn in the mid-1980s.
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.
The top selling company in this industry in the late 1990s was Eagle Industries, Inc., of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1961, Eagle Industries reported total annual sales of $9.9 million and employed 7,000 people at the end of the decade.
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
The majority of the industry's sales, about 57 percent in the late 1990s, came from blackboards
the industry suffered a severe commercial development depression and stalled housing starts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sales plummeted about 16 percent between 1988 and 1990 to $1.56 billion.
In the late 1990s, as men' shoes generated $17.4 billion in sales