Union officials have accused the airline of planning to outsource ground jobs at a cost of thousands of Australian jobs and of putting profits first.
The technique involves sending profits first through one Irish company, then to a Dutch company and finally to a second Irish company headquartered in a tax haven, Investopedia describes it.
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With so many rich sponsors willing to burn money to fund their teams, even the clubs that are quoted companies and thus obliged to put profits first are sucked into a desperate struggle to secure the services of the best players.
In earning those profits, First Cash is not above a little mayhem.
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If European countries decide, however, to cut solar power subsidies and make changes to feed-in-tariff (FiT) structure, this can negatively impact the sales and profits of First Solar and competitors like Suntech Power and SunPower.
Since Solar REITs will be a new asset class which I expect to be attractive to income investors, the first listed solar REITs will probably sell for a premium, allowing the first movers to make larger profits for creating the first solar REITs than the organizers of subsequent REITs.
Consumer electronics maker Apple Inc. posted record profits for the first fiscal quarter of the year.
Overall profits in the first quarter are on track to climb 5 percent over the year before.
And healthy trading profits during the first half of the year mean bonus pools are growing, not shrinking.
Eighty-six percent of its profits in the first two quarters of 2011 came from gains in coffee options.
And profits for the first half of 2005 are only a little down on the same period the year before.
The parent company of Airbus, EADS, has reported a sharp rise in profits for the first three months of the year.
As a result, traffic has soared, and they have reported strong sales and profits for the first half of the year.
Swiss firm Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has reported a 12.7% increase in profits for the first half of the year.
The announcement came as it reported a 50% fall in net profits in the first quarter due to the weak French economy.
It is about profits and revenues first, and changing the world second.
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The success of British car makers is echoed by U.S. car makers which are expected to report their first profits since 2004.
Suning is among a number of big Chinese retailers reporting sharply lower profits in the first half of 2013 from a year earlier.
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Eight of Citi's 10 main businesses either lost money or had declining profits in the first quarter, and expenses continue to outpace revenues.
Since Hart put down his pen, De Beers announced that the economic slowdown had already bludgeoned profits in the first half of 2001 by 15%.
Shares in department store Debenhams have fallen 14% after the firm said bad weather in January would dent its profits for the first half of 2013.
According to a study by Morgan Stanley, one-third of listed companies' profits in the first half of 2007 came from share-price gains and other investment income.
In the process Brazil has become more and more important for Santander, accounting for some 18% of global profits in the first half of this year.
And to think, it all could have been avoided if the owners had just given the players their fair cut of the profits in the first place.
The 17 banks between them recorded losses of 2.4 trillion won in the third quarter of this year, against 3.1 trillion won of profits in the first half.
T-Mobile posted higher profits during the first quarter of the 2012 financial year than the previous year, according to a statement released by its parent company, Deutsche Telekom.
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One cannot help but notice that the health insurance companies turned in record profits for the first quarter of 2011 due, according the insurance companies, to fewer people seeking medical treatment.
At the same time the traders who jumped in on the oversold condition for a quick trade are likely to begin taking their quick profits on the first sign the rally is failing.
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"I have just learned that big oil companies' profits for the first part of this year have just gone up by 500 percent, " the presumed Democratic candidate for president told CNN on Monday.
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This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
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