11.   If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product.

12.   The division had a successful year with good growth and increased profits in both the servicing and manufacture of fire protection and safety products.

13.   Last year they increased turnover by nearly a hundred million and increased profits by nearly twenty nine per cent.

14.   GRASSLAND farmers are being advised to take up mat making to increase profits and cut pollution.

15.   An increase in bond prices boosts the recorded value of the bonds they hold in inventory and can increase trading profits.

16.   Analysts remain dubious about how much the industry as a whole can increase profits in the near term.

17.   An increase in bond prices boosts the recorded value of the bonds they hold in inventory and can also increase trading profits.

18.   Analysts expect the savings to be reinvested in programs to boost sales and the rest may increase profits, analysts said.

19.   Apple Computer Inc. licensed its vaunted Macintosh operating system to International Business Machines Corp., in an effort to increase profits and spur demand for Macintosh systems.