You need to analyze customers in terms of driving both your top and bottom line (profit driven volume).
Cummins notched a sharp drop in quarterly profit, driven lower by decreased demand from oil, gas and mining customers.
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The best organisation to do this may well be a profit-driven water company.
Instead, profit is driven by our ability to manage operations as cost-effectively as possible and by investing in maintaining our infrastructure.
Profit was driven by increased sales growth in commercial aerospace and improved operating margins with an active focus on structural cost reduction.
Purely profit-driven corporate parents often acquire subsidiaries cut from wholly different cloth.
However, as more personal information and virtual assets are now processed through or stored on the Internet, Internet security threats become increasingly profit-driven.
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As the Sobig threat eased, a new profit-driven virus appeared:Mimail, which crashed machines and directly asked users to type in their credit card numbers.
Regardless of the status of the IOC itself, the modern Olympic games are profit-driven, and the broadcast, merchandising and sponsorship rights are extremely valuable.
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If so, fearing a real loss of their principal, one can expect U.S. dollar sensitive, profit-driven foreign private investors to follow, likely even anticipate the exit.
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It has reduced its bad bank loans by more than half, and reoriented the financial and other sectors to more of a profit-driven, shareholder-conscious way of doing business.
In our profit-driven culture, that, however, is an unlikely prospect.
Best of all would be a vaccine, which does not yet exist, at least in part because profit-driven drug firms have little incentive to invent one for a disease that affects mainly poor people.
Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
That may not be surprising given that for-profit companies are driven to pursue, well, profits.
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Olam's profit growth is driven by the volume of sales, and snack foods, where a lot of its nuts go, tend to be bust-proof.
Inditex said first-half profit rose 32%, driven by online sales and new stores in Asia.
The subsequent decline in interest rates and thus investment returns might well have driven many for profit insurers entirely out of the market.
Gross profit increased 69%, attributable to higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 350 basis points over the prior-year quarter to 51.8%, driven by printers and materials gross profit margin improvement.
"Despite the difficult business environment due to the economic slowdown in developed markets, Samsung achieved a solid performance and recovered its double-digit operating profit margin in the quarter, driven by strong sales of our smartphones, " said Robert Yi, Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
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It's no comfort to him that veterinarians aren't necessarily driven by a desire for profit.
Strong demand for iPhones and iPads have driven Apple to sales and profit records this year.
On August 10th Tata Motors reported a forecast-beating first-quarter profit, which it said had been driven by demand for JLR's luxury models.
No serious student of science technology can be anything but bullish about the long-term prospects for profit and growth in the ingenuity-driven economy.
All of which, experts say, has led to more corporate spinoffs driven more by desperation for quick profit than by long-term fundamentals.
Some doctors have been co-opted into the paradigm by profit opportunity: as normal fees have been driven down by payers, selling advanced technology to patients has been a way to maintain or grow income.
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It costs the economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and who better to point regulators in the right direction than investors driven by that purest of motives: profit.
Now, obviously, Drum is right that the pressures to make a profit will prevent any company from being pure as the driven snow.
Since most new insurance plans see their profitability erode over time, to the degree that their profit margins are capped at the outset, and their costs driven higher, these provisions will make it nearly impossible for new plans to enter the market.
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