Now they have to increase their bottom-line profit.

Company reports surprise jump in bottom-line profits to £171m over past six months, as it considers huge hikes in price of stamps.

"In the private sector you're driven by only one thing: bottom-line profit," Mr. Fortunato said.

The company reported a surprise jump in bottom-line profits to £171 million over the past six months.

Opponents say such a setup is inappropriate because American companies operate in a culture where bottom-line profit is everything.

The industry has only its bottom-line profit in mind.

Media industry analysts often focus on cash flow rather than bottom-line profit, which few media companies except Disney have much of.

The industrialists could offer favors, but those would affect the bottom-line profits of their operations, with adverse effects on already-stag- gering stock prices.

"They only cared about increasing their bottom-line profits, which they did quite successfully," he wrote, in a 55-page opinion.

And we'd give them sophisticated manag ment so that bottom-line profits would be ensured.