K-Tel was unable to sustain the growth and profitability.

The issue for companies like Amazon will be whether they can sustain profitability and control their costs, once they go into the black.

Accordingly, we could incur losses in the future until product, service and/or licensing revenues are sufficient to sustain continued profitability.

"But there's a lot of room in there to cut if they want to sustain profitability in the near future."

The new loss raises questions about Salomon's ability to sustain profitability, the rating agency said.

But industry analysts cautioned that it remainedunclear whether the company could sustain profitability and reverse the long-term erosion in its market.

The key to sustaining profitability has been something Mr. Sack calls "forward controllership."

"To address that situation we are implementing fundamental changes and a restructuring to enable us to sustain profitability through all phases of the economic cycle."

Mr Nearn is also planning a lightweight coupe, but recognises that the company 'will have to sustain its present sales and profitability'.

British filmmakers were in trouble, and even Maxwell was only able to sustain profitability by cutting back production.