Pharmaceutical companies routinely look for ways — all perfectly legal — to extend the profit-making life of their product: They make a slight change to a drug's formula or dosage, or they combine it with another drug.
Dollar Tree extended the profit warning into the second quarter, saying that the year-ago sale growth comparison of a 14.3% increase would be tough to top, especially since economic data has shown that consumers' are watching how they spend their money.
If rigorously applied, the new tax could thus net as much as €275m a year without counting in the extra from a last-minute change to extend the tax to profits from violent, as well as raunchy, DVDs.Two questions remain.
No doubt this will eat into the cash pile, depress operating metrics and extend the period of poor profit delivery from the group, albeit should be lower cost.
If adopted, Mr Corbyn's proposed policy would extend the same scheme to for-profit private landlords.
IT was such a comforting forecast: By the end of the calendar year, a steady stream of corporate profits would extend the stock market's long-term rally, raising the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by more than 12 percent, plus dividends.
This shift in the distribution of corporate profits may extend the stock market's rise for a few months or years, but it will inevitably make us all poorer, both financially and intellectually.
But we held in Willcuts v. Bunn, supra, that the immunity from taxation does not extend to the profits derived by their owners upon the sale of government bonds.
When the Exposition's investors failed to turn a profit in 1939, they decided to extend the fair another year.
Operating at lower flows will extend the life of the pipeline as well as increasing profit for its owners.
