The phrase "a profitable operating" is not correct in English as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in contexts discussing business operations, but it needs to be part of a more complete phrase to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The company is focused on maintaining a profitable operating model to ensure long-term success."
Alternatives: "a profitable operation" or "a profitable business".
Before deregulation of California's energy markets in the 1990s, utilities operated as profitable, state-sanctioned monopolies.
"Yahoo! is positioned for accelerated financial growth we have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience and a highly profitable operating model," Chief Executive Jerry Yang said in a statement.
But it is a big, profitable operating division that fits naturally into a company with major holdings in magazines and cable television, which also merge subscription and advertising revenue.
After the Telegraph Sale, International's stockholders will remain investors in a publication company with profitable operating assets, a well-regarded tabloid newspaper of good reputation and large circulation, a prestigious newspaper in Israel, and other valuable assets.
He hopes to attract private capital to turn what has largely been a subsidised business into a profitable one, operating on a far bigger scale than today.Other new philanthropists are piloting new models for welfare provision that, once they have proved themselves, can be taken up by governments and made available much more widely.
Along with a group of profitable Chicago-area community newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times has made the "Chicago Group Internationall's most profitable operating segment in the last two years and its contribution to International's profits has been comparable to that of the Telegraph Group for many years.
By the standards of other industries, most big pharmaceutical companies are hugely profitable: operating margins are more than 25%, against 15% or so for consumer goods.Tales of woeBut behind the healthy glow, a more worrying picture emerges.
Analysts said they were particularly impressed with the performance of Philip Morris's domestic tobacco business, the company's most profitable operating entity during the fourth quarter.
The NFL, already the biggest ($427 million per team average revenue) and most profitable (operating income of $95 million per team) league in the world, will soon become even richer.
Today the company, which has 5,600 employees, is debt free, profitable (operating income in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization should hit $120 million in 2004) and has $125 million in cash.
