In each of the the past three quarters, the company has seen its profits increase.
As industrial profits increase, shares of Chinese companies should start to appreciate, helping out patient portfolio investors who have been hard pressed for gains in broad China funds like FXI.
Regardless of international implications, United States taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize a foreign company, Siemens, who saw its net profits increase 146 percent in the second quarter of 2009.
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That somewhere being the profits (increase expenses, you reduce profits, fairly naturally).
If output went up, wages would rise, profits would increase, and tax revenues would be enhanced.
Your job is to generate profits and increase the value of your company.
Earnings per share at the world's largest brewer have risen 15 years out of the last 16 years and Wall Street is looking for profits to increase 12% this year and next.
This statistic could be seen against this week's profits announcement by British Gas, which reported an 11% increase in profits from its residential energy business - in part thanks to a 12% rise in consumption.
Higher interests rates also increase profits margins which in turn attract investors and eventually, competitors.
If a company can increase profits without increasing its expenditure on labor, it will.
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He believes using more-professional hotel-management techniques to gauge daily rate demand can increase profits.
The problem is that motivation to increase profits may work against the interest of patients.
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In the same vein, a good product mix can dramatically improve delivery costs and increase profits.
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"All the employees became united to reduce costs and increase profits, " Mr Inamori told reporters on Monday.
The rush to increase profits has come to naught and in many cases led to financial disaster.
Wimbledon press spokesman Johnny Perkins said an exodus of football fans from the complex could even help increase profits.
Basically, the higher oil prices are, the more oil and derivative products will be sold, which should increase profits.
The pick-up in industrial production is combining with business restructuring to increase profits.
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They operate in a volume business and have tried to increase profits by increasing volume while dealing with margin compression.
If a retailer could capture even a small percentage of the market, this group, the sales (and hopefully profits) would increase.
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But as the world became smaller, outsourcing, an easier way to increase profits, a lot of those jobs shifted to low-wage nations.
Nor is there much pressure from big shareholders to increase profits: the cross-shareholdings of the keiretsu come with an implicit non-aggression pact.
Analysts reporting to Thomson IBES expect ICAP to increase profits at an annual clip of 12% over the next three to five years.
We expect CapEx as Percent of Gross Profits to slightly increase as Wal-Mart focuses on international expansion by increasing its retail square footage.
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Research on loyalty has found that increasing customer retention by as little as 5 percent can increase profits by 25 to 95 percent .
Newer products add features that increase profits to issuers, making it ever more difficult for investors to value and evaluate the merits of the investment.
The NCAA is just a trade organization meant to increase profits.
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The decision is important for future False Claims Act cases because it requires the government to prove more than just a corporate effort to increase profits.
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Thus the strategy is not simply to increase profits from groceries, but to drive more traffic in stores to promote sales of other retail items as well.
"A strong luxury group will increase profits because it will allow Ford to sell to all consumer variants while retaining current Ford customers, " he said in a recent report.
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