Sentence examples for profitable departments from inspiring English sources

As a result, they are supported by other, more profitable departments, like investment banking.

Proportional to its size it was one of the most profitable departments in the university.

Within a few years, they constituted the firm's most profitable department.

Paul Walters, the chairman and chief executive of Sears Canada, quit today, ending a four-year tenure in which he turned the once-struggling company into Canada's most profitable department store chain.

The actor grew side-whiskers for the role of a man running a late 19th-century Liverpool shipping line, battling to stay solvent as he watched his brother prosper while building up a profitable department store from the shop left to him by their father and his sister inherit the family cottage and marry into money.

Publishing them became an immensely important part of the business for many U.S. firms, which in some cases depended upon their profitable college departments to finance other parts of their operation, such as the fiction side.

"But everything is a function of financial resources: Could we develop donor support?" Michigan has one of 22 profitable athletic departments in the country, but Brandon thought that adding nearly 90 players to the budget, between the men's and women's teams, was too much to bear.

The University of Oregon, one of the nation's most profitable athletic departments, added a baseball team in 2009.

Interestingly the business is almost entirely built on its massively profitable complaints department and the essential uselessness of their products; perhaps befitting for a business that's the brainchild of Douglas Adams's idiosyncratic space show.

In some cases, it's even more profitable for department stores and specialty boutiques to invest in unknown designers because their items tend to cost less, making the sales margins higher than they would be for big-brand merchandise.

Mr. Stewart said his new-car department was profitable early in the year but lost money in May and June, as sales went from an average of 265 a month to about 140 in May and then 180 last month.