The customer retention rate for the full year rose fractionally from 95.9 per cent to 96 per cent.

The automotive majors rely heavily on customer retention and brand loyalty to sell new vehicles.

But bosses want to improve customer retention, or 'stickiness', and do more to stop them switching suppliers.

Instead, factors such as charitable work, customer retention and qualifications will be considered too.

Their smartest move was moving into brokerage, and in realising that customer retention would be more profitable in the long run than making easy sales.

I, for instance, have considerable reservations about the idea of the electronic storage of all forms of communication, with data retention by the government.

In one study, data retention was observed even at room temperature.

Different techniques have evolved over time to balance data retention and restoration needs with the cost of extra data storage media.

It concluded that data retention was a valuable tool for ensuring criminal justice and public protection, but that it had achieved only limited harmonisation.

Where possible, as well as describing expected lifetimes, factors affecting data retention will be detailed including potential technology issues.

An example of this would be the winter habitat range of deer, which use conifers for heat retention and forage.

Flamingos require both methods of efficient heat retention and release.

Different pigmentation patterns provide appropriate camouflage throughout the seasons, as well as alter heat retention as temperatures change.

Pans are usually made of cast iron, allowing good heat retention.

These differences may be attributed to variation in the heat retention capabilities of the trees at different times of the year.

Their results showed that memory retention was much better after a period of sleep opposed to the same time interval spent awake.

Based on the depth of processing framework, memory retention increases as elaboration during encoding increases.

In these early studies the memory retention was always stronger for those who read the reports.

More recent studies now see no difference in memory retention between the two media, video and text.

The observed effects on memory retention the next day were similar to those obtained from individuals who had received no sleep.

I now see it as part of a wider package aimed at staff retention.

Corporate memory and continuity were lost through reorganisations and lack of staff retention.

These are seen as important to both recruitment and staff retention.

The human capital management module had been updated to include subjects such as talent management, organisational design, staff retention and internal relations.

They are designed to help clients manage human-resources matters such as recruitment, staff retention and payroll.

Now this was not a time to work on the plan or student retention or faculty problems.

Student retention in the four-year program was one of the highest within the university and student satisfaction rates were much higher than average.

Private corporations are looking into the business of student retention as a potential new field of revenue.

Among full-time students, the university has a first-time student retention rate of 88.7 percent.

School officials characterize the rate as low, and are launching programs to increase student retention.

When exam results are prioritised to the exclusion of all else in school assessments, teachers' morale and teacher retention suffers.

The foundation focuses its efforts on faculty support through professional development, technological resources, and teacher retention.

This has led proponents of class size reduction to note that low teacher retention rates lead to higher retraining costs and contribute to the current lack of qualified teachers.

The teacher retention rate was 86.8%.

The teacher retention rate was 79.2%.

All sizes can be helped with water retention by sitting them on clay saucers.

If the kidneys retain sodium because they don't work properly, water retention occurs too.

A high salt intake encourages water retention and bloating.

She said she would help me with the water retention that has built up in my body and also help me to lose the weight.

Thinning hair, thickening waist, water retention and joint pain can all become real problems.