"a loss-making" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express a consequences or result of something. For example, "The firm was unable to turn a profit, leaving it with a loss-making year."
A loss-making company in 2001 now makes profits of £600m.
Pitting two of its portfolio together in a loss-making market probably doesn't make sense to SoftBank at this point.
From a loss-making position in 2009, the top five housebuilders were making over £1bn in profit (before tax) by 2013.
For Here — which at its lowest point was a loss-making business that cost $1 billion a year for Nokia to run — this will give it another route to revenues and profit.
"A loss-making bank cannot win anyone's trust".
"We say this is a loss-making project".
I don't want to edit a loss-making magazine".
"[It's] a loss-making indebted company taking over a loss-making indebted hospital," said Labour's health spokesman Andrew Gwynne.
He is selling La Tribune, a loss-making financial daily.
A loss-making free paper does not fit into this vision.
Some observers were astonished by the price Microsoft paid for a loss-making outfit.
