A top executive of Dongfeng Honda said that the joint venture has raised its sales target for 2008 from 150,000 units to 160,000 units or more, based on the growing sales of its two models: the CR-V SUV and the Civic sedan, said xinhuanet.com today. The company has decided to develop a new hatchback model for its market growth.

Bosch Chairman Franz Fehrenbach announced in Beijing on October 13 that Bosch' sales revenue in China is expected to reach 2.3 billion euros, a 30% increase over last year, xinhua.net reported today. It will be the fourth consecutive year for Bosch to score such big growth in China.

In September, sales of Audi cars made by FAW-VW grew by 22.6% year on year to 10,919 units, which is the fourth month this year after January, March and June that saw the joint venture's Audi sales exceeding 10,000 units, said China Business news today. Meanwhile, sales of imported Audi cars rose by 76.4% y/y to 9,899 units in the first nine months.

Dongfeng Motor Co. Ltd reported its commercial vehicle unit sales for the first eight months of 2008. For the period, sales of the company’s commercial vehicles rose 22 percent from a year earlier.

FAW Group Corporation, a leading automaker in the country, saw its January-August sales rising 17.1% from the same period last year, reported Xinhua News Agency Wednesday.

The top 5 best-sellers of SUV brands in August were CRV, Tiggo, Hover, Xindadi and Sportage, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released on Wednesday.

Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Limited Company (GYMCL), China's leading diesel engine manufacturer, announced that its sales revenue in the first half of this year rose by 37.5% from one year earlier, xinhua.net reported today.

China's passenger vehicle sales fell 5.4% year on year and 6.0% month on month, data from China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows.

Parents’ uneasiness about Chinese lead recalls may have affected week before Christmas sales --- But many US consumers still unaware about where toys are made.

Germantown, MD, Telkonet, Inc. (AMEX: TKO), the leading technology solutions provider for broadband networking, end-to-end service support and energy management, today announced that Telkonet sold its interest in BPL Global, Ltd., a privately-held company, to certain existing stockholders of BPL Global. The aggregate purchase price was $2,000,000 in cash payable to Telkonet. There were no commissions paid by the Company in connection with this transaction.

Micron Technology, Inc., (NYSE: MU) today announced results of
operations for the company’s first quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended November 29, 2007. For the first
quarter of fiscal 2008, the company incurred a net loss of $262 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.5 billion. These results compare to a net loss of $158 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.4 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007.

This shopping season, salespeople looking to increase the likelihood of a sale can simply ask the potential buyer which of several items they prefer. According to new research from the Journal of Consumer Research, this skips the first part of the mental purchasing process. Instead of “Should I buy at all?”