* Pre-tax profits: 1985-£ 303, 400, 000, 1998-£ 1, 168, 000, 000

Pre-tax profit rose to PKR 26 billion.

Cattle production grew steadily until 1980-81 but then declined sharply when profits fell because of high production costs.

Britain's world trade fell in half ( 1929 – 33 ), the output of heavy industry fell by a third, employment profits plunged in nearly all sectors.

The profits of slavery fell to no more than 8, 000 owners of large plantations ; a somewhat larger group had about the standard of living of a New York City policeman, but the proportion of the free white men who were as well-off as a Northern working man was small.

When interest rates rose to offset inflation, the profits of the conglomerates fell.

Despite the competition, and later competition from the railways, the canal company paid dividends to its shareholders until the turn of the 19th century, although profits fell steadily from the 1860s.

The company's share price fell by more than two thirds, and its profits fell from more than a billion pounds in 1997 and 1998 to £ 145 million in the year ended 31 March 2001.

Building construction was halted, wages were cut, real estate values fell and corporate profits vanished.

She owned 25 % of the profits with her own company and had hit after hit and she had to get married and had to get out of the business and took a suspension because she fell in love again!

Britain's world trade fell in half ( 1929-33 ), the output of heavy industry fell by a third, employment profits plunged in nearly all sectors.

He was Canada ’ s 4th richest man in 2007 and his severe drop in wealth in 2008 reflected a 44 percent plunge of the Power Corporation of Canada's shares, when the company's profits fell 41 percent – its lowest share price since 2002.

1876 was the first year when the canal company was unable to pay the full 8 per cent dividend, and profits fell rapidly after that.

A scandal developed in 1854 as a result of profits made by Hincks and Mayor John George Bowes of Toronto from the sale of railway stock and the government fell as a result ; when this matter was reviewed in the next parliament, no basis was found for allegations of corruption against Hincks.

But in a few years the profits fell off ; and Betterton, laboring under the infirmities of age and gout, determined to quit the stage.

But then the bank was hit by the worldwide depression in the first half of the 1930s, and annual net profits fell by more than half.

Many businesses closed, as corporate profits of $ 398 million in 1929 turned into losses of $ 98 million as prices fell.

Exports of raw materials plunged, and employment, prices and profits fell in every sector.

The tax rates fell to 22. 5 % on distributed profits and 2. 5 % on undistributed profits by 1957, but the profits tax was no longer income tax-deductible.

However, as profits fell from 49 million to 11 million, ( Moores remained on the board ) he resumed the chairmanship in November 1980.

Sales in 1995 and 1996 fell so far that for those two years, virtually all the company's profits went to Buice.

In six months O'Banion had boosted the profits to $100,000 a month -- mainly by bringing pressure to bear on fifty Chicago speak-easy proprietors to shift out to the suburb.

The directors sold directly to concessionaires, who had to make their profits above the high prices asked by the company.

A prepared statement released by the student group Friday stated that `` extensive research by COAHR into techniques and methods of theater integration in other cities indicated that the presence of picket lines and stand-ins before segregated theaters causes a drop in profits ''

The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

After a recent increase in profits by 60 %, the company refused to raise worker's pay by more than 30 %.

It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.

* See Startup company, a startup company can grow by reinvesting profits in its own growth, if its bootstrapping costs are low and return on investment is high.

The foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd., of which it is the sole shareholder.

All were licensed by Frederick Warne & Co. and earned Potter an independent income as well as immense profits for her publisher.

Cubans were torn between desire for the profits generated by sugar and a repugnance for slavery, which they saw as morally, politically, and racially dangerous to their society.

The profits generated by the Erie Canal project started a canal building boom in the United States that lasted till about 1850 when railroads started becoming seriously competitive in price and convience.

The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

In this case the profits made by a defecting spy, George Blake, for the publication of his book, were awarded to the British Government for breach of contract.

According to Kirzner ( 1973 ) and Lavoie ( 1985 ) entrepreneurs reap profits by supplying unfulfilled needs in markets.

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

Mussolini wrote approvingly of the notion that profits should not be taken away from those who produced them by their own labour, saying " I do not respect — I even hate — those men that leech a tenth of the riches produced by others ".

Franchise contracts tend to be unilateral contracts in favor of the franchisor, who is generally protected from lawsuits from their franchisees because of the non-negotiable contracts that require franchisees to acknowledge, in effect, that they are buying the franchise knowing that there is risk, and that they have not been promised success or profits by the franchisor.

The rapid economic growth stimulated by World War I, which had raised the incomes of industrial workers and profits of the employers during 1915 and 1916, collapsed with the February Revolution.

For the remainder, in particular for the Berbice River and the North West services, the Government provides a cross-subsidy funded out of the profits that are always realized by the Harbor Branch of the Transport and Harbors Department.

Subsequently, restrictions on the repatriation of profits in foreign exchange and other circumstances contributed to the withdrawal of services to Guyana by foreign airlines, with the exception of BWIA.

In the countryside, where guild rules did not operate, there was freedom for the entrepreneur with capital to organize cottage industry, a network of cottagers who spun and wove in their own premises on his account, provided with their raw materials, perhaps even their looms, by the capitalist who took a share of the profits.