Sentence examples for operative profit from inspiring English sources

Selling the company's AOL shares and its 50% stake in AOL Europe and the sale of mediaWays, an internet-service provider, generated a profit of €10 billion.In the three-and-a-half-years of my leadership Bertelsmann doubled its revenue, tripled its operative profit and quintupled its net equity.

"Porsche's operative earnings before taxes developed most satisfactorily," the company said in a press release topped with the rather understated title, "Porsche-Group profit clearly up again".

Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist, said there was a "quadrennial industry" of paycheck-seeking Iowa operatives who profit from "the myth that organization wins Iowa".

The distance between villages and the produce store can sometimes result in members selling to local middlemen – most of whom end up reselling to Kajofaco, but it reduces the co-operative's profit margin.

But even with that huge incentive, it could not persuade itself that pressing on with the acquisition made commercial sense (and this from a co-operative, whose profit motive is less acute than most PLCs).

A proportion of the co-operative's profits is earmarked for schoolbooks, cleaning products and other materials for the local primary school.

We must let co-operatives be co-operatives, which are 'for profit' enterprises.

Last year it changed from a workers' co- operative to a non-profit foundation.

Worldwide, there are three times as many member owners of co-operatives, sharing in profits, as there are individual shareholders.

It is a community benefit society – a type of mutual similar to a co-operative whereby any profits are ploughed back into providing better services or facilities.

But even this is progress of sorts: before the new co-operative was established, profits were handed out only to male family heads, to divide up as they wished.Turning villagers into shareholders is a big improvement on the hazy "collective" ownership notion prevailing in most of rural China.