Sentence examples for lagging profits from inspiring English sources

Despite job cuts and lagging profits at their firms, Wall Street employees who remain employed are doing well.

He sought to convince the shareholders that the structure of the company was outmoded and that a new strategic vision was needed to bolster sales and lagging profits.

She has pleaded guilty to colluding with the chief executive of Christie's to set up a joint schedule of higher non-negotiable fees and coordinate other business practices to curb competition and boost lagging profits.

Among the government witnesses was the former chief executive of Christie's, Christopher M. Davidge, who broke open the case at the end of 1999 when he surrendered hundreds of pages of internal records documenting a scheme between the two houses to increase lagging profits by eliminating costly incentives to clients and raising rates to sellers.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard we clap, we cannot bluff away lagging profits and revenues.

The company said second-quarter profit rose 5%, a sub-par performance that reflected lagging profits from the company's restaurants and beverage business abroad.

Also, dividends lag profits and are much less volatile.

Bertelsmann A.G., the world's third-largest media company, said yesterday that fiscal year 1998 net income rose 9.8percentt as strong United States sales more than offset lagging profit at its European book clubs.

The economy should meet it, although excessive debt, a bloated state sector, entrenched special interests, income disparity, rural-urban inequality and lagging corporate profits will remain problems.

There are times when a strong dollar or a comparatively strong U.S. economy leave the dollar investor worse off for having ventured abroad; other times a weak dollar or lagging U.S. profits send foreign portfolios ahead of U.S. ones.

Use measures that lead rather than lag the profits in your business.