Sentence examples for far from profitable from inspiring English sources

For all their charm, however, pandas are far from profitable.

The team, said a person with knowledge of its finances, is far from profitable.

The sales growth took investors' breath away – that the business was far from profitable was ignored.

"They're working at breakneck speed to improve profitability and enhance asset value," Mr. Kupinski maintained, while acknowledging that the company is still far from profitable.

Trying to compete with Sky, Carlton and Granada have invested about $1.1 billion in ITV Digital, a pay TV station that is still far from profitable.

But many of these companies, at the moment, are far from profitable.

While only 34 members (or 26percentt) of the Association of American University Presses published poetry in the 2004-5 publishing year, Wesleyan maintains a strong commitment to its far-from-profitable poetry catalog.

NewspaperDirect is still far from being profitable, with monthly sales so far covering only about 20percentt of costs.

But now, the hold of the Big Three on the sport utility and pickup truck market is under assault from far more profitable Japanese automakers, which have better reputations for quality.

Foreign banks account for less than 2percentt of the deposits and loans in China; that figure is expected to double before 2007, and represents the cream of the market, though far from all of the profitable banking business in China.

Sony, the battery-maker mainly involved, has offered free replacements at a cost of $430m and counting.The first to take advantage of Sony's woes has been its old nemesis, Matsushita a bigger, feistier and far more profitable rival from Osaka, best known abroad for its Panasonic brand.