Sentence examples for highly unprofitable from inspiring English sources

But while Sprint's wireless unit is growing quickly, it remains highly unprofitable.

"They made the business highly unprofitable for Coke," said Emanuel Goldman, beverage industry analyst for Montgomery Securities.

But the Paris-Moscow-Beijing axis of greed -- whose commerce-driven politicians seek to prop up the doomed Saddam in the U.N. -- will find its policy highly unprofitable.

But a customer need not be loyal to be highly profitable, and many loyal customers turn out to be highly unprofitable.

The company says it averaged a loss of $28 on each metric ton of production at the unit, which has been highly unprofitable in recent years.

Mr. Koizumi also wants to abolish or privatize many of the public corporations that for at least the last decade have underwritten the bulk of the economic activity in the provinces, much of which has proved highly unprofitable.

But highly valued unprofitable companies like Amazon.com stayed out.

The numerals, equivalent to nearly a quarter of the 600 employees, denoted the number of people management is seeking to lay off at the highly regarded but unprofitable 63-year-old paper — as part of a revival plan that executives liken to a doctor's cutting off a limb to save a life.

When Czechoslovak officials decided to close a highly polluting, energy inefficient, unprofitable aluminum plant in Slovakia, a huge public protest persuaded the Government to give the factory a year's reprieve.

Highly profitable casino customers get rooms for free; unprofitable ones pay premium rates.

Seriously distorted product costs can lead managers to choose a losing competitive strategy by de-emphasizing and overpricing products that are highly profitable and by expanding commitments to complex, unprofitable lines.