Despite the continuing declines in circulation and traditional advertising revenue, the main groups continue to make significant profits.
And with a $424 billion market for cheap homes that is largely untapped, it could also make significant profits.
IDC highlighted concerns about the financial pressures on Android handset makers, where Samsung is the only one known to make significant profits.
Of Android handset makers, only Samsung is making significant profits, despite shipments of smartphones running the software exceeding 144m in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Japanese manufacturers, he added, "were extraordinary at organizing suppliers, staying flexible and making significant profits while mass-producing a constantly changing variety of cars".
The slaughter did not solve the German food problems (not least because demand for pork remained stable while supply fell, so farmers could make significant profits from the remaining increasingly well-fed pigs).
RBS, despite losing billions of pounds during the financial crisis, has made significant profits in its investment banking businesses in the last year after strong demand in areas such as bond sales and debt restructuring.
Although tribes with successful operations have been able to use gaming income to improve the general health, education, and cultural well-being of their members, many Indian casinos have not made significant profits.
This was the strategy adopted by BBC Worldwide which took stakes of 25% in a number of companies – including Rev and The Word's End-maker Big Talk and Left Bank, which makes Wallander and Mad Dogs – and has made significant profits over the last year selling them on to other players.
But the CMA will argue that it has been too easy for the traditional players to make significant profits and will recommend a raft of new intiatives in a bid to introduce innovation and encourage customers to switch to cheaper providers.
