"expand profits" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English that is used to describe an action that is increasing or boosting profits.
For example, "The company implemented a new strategy to expand profits over the next quarter."
But mergers have helped companies expand profits by lowering costs.
The amusement park industry urgently wants to expand profits without introducing costly new rides every summer.
Investors have been heartened by DoCoMo's apparently having found ways to expand profits even as revenues fall.
Mr. Staggs said Disney's board decided to move ahead with the technology upgrades in February 2011 only after identifying multiple ways in which the initiative could expand profits.
Recent data suggest that Japanese exporters are keeping the prices of their goods unchanged, preferring simply to expand profits instead of slashing prices to increase export volumes.
Mr. Orenbuch and other analysts noted that the worry now was how the bank was going to cut expenses and expand profits from the core businesses that remain.
But airlines struggling to expand profit margins in a not-very-profitable business are going to keep running into customer pushback and threats of government regulation as long as they keep introducing policies that are easy to criticise.
Management, he added, is restructuring operations to control costs and expand profit margins.
One blogger asked, "Are they allowed to do that?" But, for a big brewery like Bitburger, the "craft beer" label represents a way to expand profit margins in a market dominated by low-priced offerings.
Higher productivity growth means that companies are producing more with the same amount of labor, allowing them to pay higher wages and maintain or expand profit margins without raising prices.
At the same time, convergence can expand profit margins through cost synergies and enhanced customer loyalty.
