PPI sales have proved a profitable sideline for loan and credit card companies, with the vast majority of the 12m policies in operation sold alongside loans and other credit agreements.
This has proved a very profitable way to invest.
The BBC has invested £10m in The Last Kingdom, an incursion into the blood-and-guts medieval drama genre which has proved such a profitable venture for HBO, producers of the all-conquering Game Of Thrones.
For the owners, keeping the restaurant open for the racing season has proved profitable, creating a certain mystique and ensuring a stampede of would-be diners.
But instead the state faces an electricity shortage so severe that the governor has turned off the lights on the official Christmas tree -- a shortage that has proved highly profitable to power companies, and raised suspicions of market manipulation.
This formula, needless to say, has proved enormously profitable, and its success has companies competing in a race toward weightlessness: whoever owns the least, has the fewest employees on the payroll and produces the most powerful images, as opposed to products, wins the race.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed breaking up the agency responsible for both policing the oil industry and acting as its partner in drilling activities, seeking to end a decades-old relationship between industry and government that has proved highly profitable — and some say too cozy — for both.
The Southwest formula of low fares, no frills and high reliability has proved extremely profitable.
Long-haul "premium leisure" flying to the Caribbean and Florida has proved more profitable, against intense competition from Virgin Atlantic.
And while that arc has proved wildly profitable, it doesn't always look — or taste — like progress.
