But many of its early deals proved unprofitable, and Axial lost money each year.
Asda has moved away from Black Friday deals after the day proved unprofitable.
When attempts to grow cotton near Saint-Louis proved unprofitable, trade for gum in the Sénégal valley was substituted.
Yet the projects have often proved unprofitable, slow to deliver energy or water, and prone to corruption.
When he was 6 months old, his parents returned to their native Ireland, then to Sheffield, England, when farming proved unprofitable.
The same sort of division of the spoils has so far, in an experimental stage, proved unprofitable for the conbini.
Chinese companies and their bankers are then far more reluctant than Western companies to admit defeat for investments that prove unprofitable.
Parsa dismissed Labour calls for regulators to bring forward a proposed regime that would impose borrowing limits on providers and lock them into running services even if they proved unprofitable.
The chain's online sales, meanwhile, took a knock from a decision to halt free delivery on sales worth less than £50, a service that proved unprofitable the year before.
Aldi said it had no plans to offer other groceries online at present as such moves had proved unprofitable and complex for other retailers and it needed to keep costs low to maintain its leading price position.
