It broke through the £1bn profit mark in 2001 and has reported record earnings every year since.
You don't commission Cucumber [Russell T Davies's drama about older gay men] or Grayson Perry talking about identity, or current affairs about children living on the frontline in Syria if you've got shareholders demanding you hit a particular profit mark.
Had Microsoft not purchased the asset, it would have hit its profit mark.
The company's $865 million first-quarter profit marked its first three-month period out of the red since a $891 million profit in the second quarter of 2007.
Diamond, the newest member of the S&P 500 index, crossed the $1 billion profit mark for the first time in 2008, with profits of $1.3 billion, a 55% increase over the previous year.
This is often their main source of income (they might not even charge for consultations but base their income on the profit mark-up on drugs instead).
However, the local governments determined the companion policy and allocated budgets based on actual medicine costs, and the subsidy represented only the lost profit mark-up (15%).
Village doctors could still make a profit (mark-up of 15%) from selling essential drugs on the National Essential Medicine List because the remuneration for selling essential medicines was not given to the village doctors in a timely manner.
LinkedIn beat analyst estimates with $712M inQ22 revenue, and Samsung posted yet another drop in its quarterly profits, marking its seventh quarterly decline in a row.
KLM Royal Dutch may be an acquisition target after the collapse of its joint venture with Alitalia.Falling profits at Marks and Spencer, a troubled British high-street retailer, forced it to cut its dividend for the first time to secure future investment.
