In January, Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster, and the combined company -- Live Nation Entertainment -- suffered from low attendance at many of its tours, especially at its outdoor amphitheaters, where it also profits from parking and concession income.
As much as it is trying to block bots, it also profits from the ticket resale market through TicketsNow — its own version of StubHub — as well as through deals with major sports groups, like the National Basketball Association.
The restaurant gives poets a venue, but it also profits from their talent.
The company has won more than $10 million in races, but it also profits from stud fees and from selling offspring.
It also profits from a licence to issue derivatives tied to MSCI share indices, and may soon offer products tied to LIBOR, a benchmark interest rate that is to be administered by another division of ICE.Derivatives in general and energy futures in particular have fuelled ICE's rapid growth.
It also profits from Naples' perennial domestic rubbish crisis as it controls some of the waste truck companies and is savvy at embezzling state funds earmarked to solve the problem.
Corning is still a specialty glass and ceramics company known to most consumers for its tableware, but for more than a century it has also profited from uses as diverse as early light bulbs, space, defense and fiber-optic cable.
It has also profited from the latest round of TV soccer rights, signed last summer, which divvies up £1.7 billion ($3.1 billion) amongst Premier League clubs.
It is also profiting from a growing number of customers trading down from higher-priced restaurants due to the recession.
It will also profit from the fact that so many other art events and partnerships are organized thanks to Art Brussels around the time of the fair.
