Other profit areas for Merrill came from one-time sales, like the sale of its stake in Bloomberg, the financial news agency, which Merrill sold in July for $4.4 billion.
"The NRA and gun industry view accessories like silencers as potential profit areas, with guns themselves so well-saturated throughout their existing customer base.
Does it make sense for Amazon to stay in the hardware business, which is a low-margin, low-profit area for you?
"Businesses have to figure out how to balance a high-profit area with backlash from the public at large".
International and multidisciplinary in approach, the journal investigates both the profit and non-profit areas of the service sector.
Service Business is a journal for issues related to business in the service sector of the economy, focusing on both the profit and non-profit areas of the sector.
He has been shy about specifics but shedding underperformers like the electronics testing and chemical analysis businesses would free up management to concentrate on high-growth, high-profit areas like printers, software and its recordable CD-ROM product.
"At the time, vaccines were thought of as being a low profit, low growth area but now pharmaceutical companies are viewing vaccines as a much more profitable area.
An initial list of 'experts' known for their national roles in policy making in the fields of dementia care and palliative care was developed by the broader project team in order to achieve differentiation by role (identified as academic, clinical, policy, business, not for profit) and area of expertise (dementia care, palliative care or both, Table 1).
