Example sentences of "profit last " in BNC.
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| 1 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 2 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 3 | He thought the big strike vote was partly due to Ford 's record profits last year of £673 millions . |
| 4 | Income from joint ventures produced about half of Corning 's net profits last year . |
| 5 | At Citibank , America 's biggest issuer , three-fifths of consumer-banking profits last year came from cards . |
| 6 | France 's state-owned car maker , Renault , suffered an 87% plunge in profits last year , to a net FFr1.21 billion ( $196m ) from FFr9.29 billion in 1989 . |
| 7 | The warning accompanied full-year figures showing a 21 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits last year to £6.67m , on sales 27 p.c. ahead at £48½m . |
| 8 | Intel profits last year rose almost a third to $819 million after tax on sales of $4.78 billion , up a fifth on 1990 . |
| 9 | Profits last year were boosted by £69m of interest savings from the £572m rights issue a year ago . |
| 10 | Europe provided 42 p.c. of the profits last year . |
| 11 | HADEN MacLellan Holdings , the engineering and automated manufacturing systems group put together by Philip Ling , chairman , is maintaining the payout to shareholders at 8p , with a 5p final on July 1 , despite a 38 p.c. tumble in profits last year to £14.6m pre-tax . |
| 12 | PEUGEOT , the French motor giant which also makes Citroen cars , suffered a 40 p.c. fall in net profits last year to Ff5½ billion ( £578m ) but remained the top French exporter , selling nearly two-thirds of its production overseas . |
| 13 | HEAVY spending on pubs and hotels knocked 10% off profits last year at Vaux , the Geordie brewer and nursing homes group . |
| 14 | Costs have been reduced by automation and heavy job cuts , and profits last year more than tripled to £36m . |
| 15 | Profits last year were more than halved to £7.3m . |
| 16 | A SHIPPING group , whose profits last year dived by nearly a third , has told shareholders to expect an even lower result for 1993 . |
| 17 | Taxable profits last year were £1.7 billion compared with £880 million in 1991 . |
| 18 | Zitel Corp saw in first quarter net losses of $3.1m against $61,000 profits last time , on sales down 43.7% to $6.3m . |
| 19 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 20 | Dun & Bradstreet Corp saw first quarter net losses of $35.4m , after $140.6m charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change , against $98.2m profits last time , on sales down 3.3% to $1,071.4m . |
| 21 | The central bank itself declared a 76% plunge in its profits last year because of big losses dealing in foreign currencies . |
| 22 | France 's big state-owned industries made record profits last year . |
| 23 | In fact we made most of our profits or a lot of our profits last year by erm , sheer volume and , and , and a decline in yield . |
| 24 | Yes er , the F the F T er , did improve er , Les Echo improved , Recolleters improved , the Economist was slightly down on last year , but remember , the Economist were at record profits last year and erm , so even maintaining their , their profits or just dropping is a good performance . |
| 25 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 26 | The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time . |
| 27 | A LEAP of nearly three million-tonnes in cargo handled at the Port of Liverpool helped the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company lift pre-tax profits last year by 24 per cent to £16.4 million . |
| 28 | The bad-debt figures knocked the shares , which fell 16p to 443p by the close yesterday , despite NatWest 's announcement of a big recovery in profits last year . |
| 29 | WITH competition beginning to bite in industrial gas sales , British Gas suffered a drop of about £700 million in profits last year to about £1 billion on a historic-cost basis . |
| 30 | He was speaking as P&O reported pre-tax profits last year which rose to £270.4 million , from £233 million in 1991 . |