High interest rates can also cut into corporate profitability.
The line, which had been running a deficit for five years, said it moved into profitability in 1996, partly as a result of its family focus.
Much of his early work put Mazda back into profitability and laid the foundations for future success.
"This is the year they'll work out the kinks of getting back into profitability."
"This year, we're going to turn the corner into profitability," he said, but he would not specify by how much.
Our challenge is to turn strong order growth into higher profitability.
They looked to diesel power as a way to streamline costs and bring them back into profitability.
But none of that might have helped had the factory not bootstrapped itself into profitability.
We wanted them on the verge of going from a venture-capital idea into profitability.
"What has not occurred has been the expected turn into profitability."