Insurance carriers and managed-care companies are driven by fiscal concerns and shareholder demands for profitability, not by ethical standards.
Private housebuilders ensured long-term price inflation and profits by banking land and maintaining excess demand for homes, and profitability rose as the state withdrew from social housing supply.
The airlines, several in bankruptcy or near it, contend that anything that raises the cost of travel decreases demand, and thus their prospects for profitability.
Banking bulls point out that one day the economy will improve and interest rates will rise, boosting demand for loans and the profitability of lending.
The essential factor for profitability is the demand for heat in the factory.
The demand for recovered materials affects the profitability of the recycling processes and at the same time is susceptible to changes in external factors such as resource prices.
Even still, the company has increased shipments and profitability, and demand for LED TVs in emerging markets helped "Samsung increase its portion of LED TV sales from the mid 60-percent range to a mid 80-percent share, quarter-on-quarter," according to the release.
Despite such difficulties as seasonality and, increasingly, staffing, the East End as a market is increasingly in demand -- as much for marketing reasons as for profitability.
Its goal, they say, is to protect GDF as a public company that serves the general interest, to defend it against its managers' attempt to turn it into "a company like all the others" and against capitalists' demands for "ever bigger profitability".Mr de Villepin resisted union pressure because he faces even greater financial and political pressures.
Her technology stocks also fit her "Cheerios" model: companies with strong and recurring demand for products, high cash flow and profitability.
