These tiny villages lie in what might be called the Salt Belt of Brittany -- the area that was highly profitable in the Middle Ages when this "white gold" was as valuable as coal was in the 19th century or as oil is today.
A high p/e figure (worked out by dividing the price of a share by the profits per share) can suggest that the market believes a company will be highly profitable in the future.
Free-wheelers carved off private plots from communes, sowed non-staple crops that were highly profitable in a growing black market, and returned to sidelines (animal rearing, handicrafts) that had been condemned as "capitalist" since the mid-50s.
The person said that Facebook decided to raise money even though it was highly profitable, in part, to be on more equal footing with rivals like Google, which has more than $33 billion in cash reserves.
Unlike Apple, which is highly profitable — in part because it outsources much of its manufacturing and hires a relatively small work force at home in the United States — Sony has long protected employment in Japan and been slow to outsource production.
There have been no audits, no investigations of these cross-subsidies that made the state utility networks look unprofitable, when, in fact, they are highly profitable if Verizon Wireless and Verizon's other affiliates paid their fair share.
Despite the economic downturn the company has been highly profitable this year, making $3bn in the last quarter.
In addition to aircraft and spacecraft, aerodynamic studies in wind tunnels have been highly profitable devices for solving design problems in automobiles, boats, trains, bridges, and building structures.
At the same time, private equity firms are being invited to make what are likely to be highly profitable investments in the same banks.
Listed companies are highly profitable, although in part because they often face too little competition.Visitors to Pakistan are surprised to discover good roads and a strong business culture.
