One hundred per cent profit on this freight is regarded as small.

All the same, that still leaves around 33 per cent profit.

We sell these bags at £2.49 and have added only 15 per cent profit.

Sell each bag at the usual going rate - five pounds - and you make a hundred per cent profit.

Yet Food Giant only takes around four per cent profit.

Besides, we must have a monopoly on it - Crane would be satisfied with ten per cent net profit.

The game begins with one of the players bidding 5 cents (the minimum), hoping to make a 95 cent profit.

Similarly, another bidder may bid 15 cents, making an 85 cent profit.

An investor in mainstream emerging equities would have made a 22 cent profit.

Speculators who bought the options before the bid and sold 24 hours later showed a 100 per cent profit.