The first, Mr Sarkozy's favourite, is to force Areva, a profitable firm, to take over Alstom.
Indeed, the most profitable firm we met with subsequently was criminally prosecuted.
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While advisors have their fair share of obnoxious and rude clients, most of the time the firings occur when a client is no longer profitable for the firm.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).
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Back at Nyetimber, which has won a host of prizes for its sparkling wines that are made in exactly the same way as champagne from the same three grape varieties, owner Eric Heerema admits making the firm profitable remains a long-term aim.
He also mentions the firm was profitable during the period, but not by how much.
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And yet, she runs a successful, profitable five person engineering firm.
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
As it is, the firm is wonderfully profitable, having quickly recovered from a traumatic 1997 strike by its drivers.
Before that, he was co-founder of a profitable private-equity investment firm.
Although 13 of Matsushita's Chinese operations were profitable in 1996 and the firm expects another 12 to make money in 1997, these profits are meagre and the yuan has dropped sharply against the yen.
This kind of relationship is profitable because the interceding financial firm has a much lower cost of capital than the manufacturers, and they can also adjust their fee based on the credit risk the manufacturer poses.
Oesterle points out that absent transition expenses, the firm would have been profitable.
The company is profitable, but not as profitable as one might think an Internet firm could be.
While the firm was expected to be profitable next quarter, RIM has now announced that it will incur a loss.
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Mr Omidyar also takes pleasure in pointing out that eBay is almost the only pure-play e-commerce firm that has been consistently profitable from the beginning.
The most profitable thing he should be doing for his firm is practicing law.
Wall Street analysts expect NBCi to have made a loss in 2000, but the firm said it expected to become profitable in the fourth quarter of 2001 or the first quarter of 2002.
Surely if any firm could breeze along enjoying a moderately profitable but socially responsible existence it would be this one?
The firm also wants a bigger share of the profitable graphics-chip business.
The American firm's portfolio is light on the sort of profitable, high-end beers in which InBev specialises.
GNER, which is owned by Sea Containers, a bankrupt American firm, and runs what was expected to be a profitable service from London to York.
The American firm struck a deal last year to import InBev's profitable premium beers such as Stella Artois and Beck's.
"They took a large bottom-line loss that will make them more profitable going forward, " Ticonderoga Securities analyst Chris Allen says of the firm's accelerated write-offs on sign-on bonuses.
After all, I quit the practice of law in part because getting paid on an hourly or retainer basis could never be as interesting (or profitable) as creatively managing an investment banking, brokerage and investigative services firm.
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The firm could restructure itself with a leaner footprint, shedding less-profitable practices and lawyers.
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"The company is a lot more profitable than we thought, " said Kathleen Smith, principal of IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital.
The Santa Clara, Calif. firm hopes its tests will spur dramatic advances in medicine, creating a highly profitable business.
Through Claridge, his private equity firm, he has made numerous under-the-radar and so far profitable investments, most notably in high-end organic foods.
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