The impact of the business on people or environment, rather the amount of profit made in a given period measures the success of social business.
At the heart of this groundswell is a return to passion not mere profit, and a renaissance period of the crafts and craftsmanship that once fueled our nation and the world.
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It made a net profit of 100bn yen during the period, compared with 81bn a year earlier.
Indian tech companies have held up well in the global slump, with the top six IT services companies reporting an average 135% rise in net profit in the final quarter of 2000 against the same period in 1999, according to Salomon Smith Barney.
Currently, Wall Street is expecting the company to post a fourth-quarter profit of 60 cents per share, an improvement of about 30% over the same period last year.
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Nintendo returned to net profit for the April-December period of 2012 from deep losses the previous year, but that was due to a perk from a weaker yen, which helps Japanese exporters such as Nintendo.
We forecast that this value will continue its decline, to about 57% of gross profit in 2011, and settle around 42% by the end of our forecast period.
The bank reported a net loss of 2.17bn Swiss francs for the July to September period, compared with a profit of 1.02bn Swiss francs a year earlier.
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The operating profit of 760 billion won represented an increase of 66 percent compared with the same period last year.
In the first nine months of 2010, profit margins averaged some 13 percent higher than for the same period in 2009.
Despite positive reviews, last year's flagship phone, the HTC One X, struggled to sell, and the company's net profit during the last three months of 2012 plummeted by more than 90% compared to the same period the previous year.
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In the first three months of this year, it made euro70m in profit, up from euro39m in the same period last year.
One casualty of the sales slump was UK based supermarket giant, Tesco -- the world's third largest retailer -- which was forced to offer a profit warning in the wake of a disappointing UK Christmas trading period.
The McClellan case is pending but, in spite of being the second one for Deloitte in such a short time and with allegations of tipping others for profit that covered the same time period as the Flanagan case, Deloitte is still kicking consulting ass and taking names, including for the federal government.
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In the same period last year, Sirius earned a profit of 2 cents per share.
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Banking giant Credit Suisse has reported a 74% fall in net profit for the first three months of the financial year compared to the same period in 2001.
Richemont expects its sales and operating profit for the first six months of this year to be significantly higher than the comparative period.
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Alberta's auditor-general found that at the three biggest plants, profit per cow processed almost tripled in the last six months of 2003 compared with the same period in 2002.
The Asia-focused bank said Wednesday that operating profit was "slightly down" in the first three months of 2013 from the same 2012 period because of tighter loan margins, a rise in souring consumer loans and lower income from its own investments.
Apple managed to wring out 36.9 cents of profit for every dollar in sales, up from 30.32% during the same period last year.
Apple managed to wring out 36.9 cents of profit for every dollar in sales, up from 30.32 cents during the same period last year.
Christmas is coming, a period of the year where Best Buy makes 60% of its annual profit.
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However, its core business strategy during a period of private equity ownership during the mid-noughties was to realise profit from selling its freeholds.
In the fourth quarter of 2001, Amazon announced its first ever real profit, whereas American Express's earnings for the same period were over 50% down on a year earlier.
Dixons conceded that its profit margins had been squeezed during the reporting period, but attributed this to a change in the mix of products that customers were buying - with low-margin tablet computers selling particularly well - rather than rising costs or price discounts.
In the first two months of 2011 China manufacturing industry was enjoying profit growth year on year of 35%, and this was a fall from the previous (2010-2009) period.
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As I have discussed in the past I favor closing out part of any position when I can get a decent profit in a relatively short period of time.
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