The phrase "and makes a hefty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that generates a significant amount of something, often in terms of money or weight.
Example: "The new investment strategy is risky, but it has the potential and makes a hefty profit for the investors."
Alternatives: "and generates a substantial" or "and yields a considerable".
When "Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato)" of 1962 came next and made a hefty $9.04 million, Christopher Burge, who was wielding the gavel, briefly looked nonplussed — that price was only within the expected price bracket.
And while £29m does seem a lot, if Raheem Sterling joins Manchester City for a fee of around £45-50m then Liverpool will have got a more consistent performer and made a hefty profit in the process.
In August, after meeting a little boy who desperately wanted to be a cowboy, Stanton raised enough money to both send the child on a 'Wild Wild West Adventure,' and make a hefty donation to a therapeutic riding center.
This take on fetteh, a Levantine dish made with stale flatbread and various toppings, makes a hefty weekend breakfast or a light supper.
No surprise then that Seattle FilmWorks, now one of the country's three biggest mail-order film processors, makes a hefty 42% gross margin.
If the fund makes a hefty profit, you will benefit as well.
The pessimists, on the other hand, see another opportunity: to short the stock and then make a hefty profit when it falls, as they speculate it inevitably will.
Santana would fill the slot in the starting rotation left vacant by the departure of Tom Glavine, and Glavine made a hefty $10.5 million in 2007.
The Taliban have made travel in Afghanistan safe again, and they, in turn, make a hefty sum taxing cross-country shipments.
Writing for the same publication, Tom Shales said that HBO "has made such a fuss over Rome, and the network itself has put such painful pressure on the show (and its producers) to make a hefty impact, that it'll be scorned like a leper if it fails to make a truly gigantic splash".
