However, in the last eight years the profits have jumped.

Profit for the group jumped 80 percent, to $709 million.

Profits jumped by a third to over £6 million in six months.

Profits at the music business jumped 16 percent, to $251 million.

In 2009, the company's profits jumped more than 60 percent from £2.9million to £4.6million.

Profits jumped to £195m in the year to end March.

And it revealed that profits jumped from just £700,000 to £3,500,000 in six months.

Its profits jumped 20 percent in the year ended June 27, to $267.6 million, on sales of $9.2 billion.

Profits jumped by 53.2 percent, to $121 million, or 52 cents a share.

The company reported last week that its quarterly profits jumped more than 50 percent.