Despite this your analysis is quite correct: Britain's regional railways are a huge burden on what would otherwise be a profitable industry.
In a time of great economic uncertainty, it may be controversial to point out that a profitable industry is affecting their own sustainability by blatantly overfishing our oceans while at the same time exposing us to great risk, but everyone has a right to know.
The U.S. needs a profitable airline industry that can invest in better service.
In fact, a highly profitable cottage industry of activists and academics had arisen to dissect the sore and assess blame for it.
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Houston is a hub for the profitable oil industry and the U.S. military gives San Antonio a lift.
However, a number of financial giants, led by American Express, are proving that there is indeed a way for the industry to innovate in a profitable and economically sustainable way: through social media.
When the price of oil jumps as it has this week, says renewable energy consultant Pamela Cargill, the solar power industry often goes along for a profitable ride.
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In particular, NBCU's fast-growing, highly profitable cable networks are a great complement to our industry-leading distribution business.
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The company, which is not profitable yet, competes with a broad spectrum of industry players, Ziegler said, such as Braintree, Stripe and CyberSource.
If the college football bowl games were a publicly traded industry they would given a low multiple by Wall Street because most of them are marginally profitable at best.
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Our analysis found that they are 26% more profitable than their average industry competitors and enjoy a 12% higher market valuation.
The company is building better cars and trucks and it has posted three consecutive profitable quarters, despite a weak economy and record-low industry sales.
While Goldman is the gold standard in the trading business, with its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading division one of the most profitable in the industry, the macro environment has a been difficult one for trading in the last half of the year.
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This is a prospect that is both beneficial for developing countries and potentially profitable for industry in the West.
For the auto industry as a whole, fleet sales are generally less profitable, or potentially even outright unprofitable, compared with retail sales to individuals.
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Though Vapor Corp is not yet profitable, I had a chance to learn a little more about the industry in a chat with Vapor Corp CEO Kevin Frija.
In fact, 2013 looks as though it may be one of the most profitable years in recent history for the airline industry, and a vibrant marketplace means good news for consumers.
It also was the right thing to do, although a tough decision, to save the auto industry, which is now profitable and gaining market share -- the U.S. auto industry -- for the first time in a very long time.
"If someone finds that customer and figures out a way to solve their headache in a profitable way, that company's going to succeed regardless of economic or industry conditions, " Mr. Cheng says.
Later, it secured a near-monopoly in the still more profitable trade in alum, vital to the textile industry.
What a great irony we have in the stone industry when the industry was many times more profitable when details were all done by hand versus now when the work is now mostly done by tools and machines not available 25 years ago.
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Although the shark-watching industry at Ningaloo is small, and less than a decade old, it is profitable.
These were good years, during which Dell became the world's largest and most profitable computer-maker, with a supply chain that was easily the most efficient in the industry, if not the world, and a direct-sales model that seemed to keep Dell one step ahead of rival companies selling computers through old-fashioned stores.
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According to industry estimates, a nearly full 757, operating with fewer flight attendants, can be more profitable than a larger plane such as the Boeing 767 carrying the same number of passengers but more attendants.
While a few firms have come unstuck over drugs faltering in clinical trials, a solid core of big, successful firms such as Celltech and Shire is reassuring investors that Britain's biotechnology sector is a better long-term bet than, say, Germany's less mature, and less profitable, industry.
Aram Sinnreich, a media industry analyst with Radar Research, argues that BitTorrent's technology is more of an incremental step towards profitable online television.
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