1.   He said it was profitable from the beginning.

2.   Hills Stores has emerged lean and profitable from three years in bankruptcy court, despite stiff competition.

3.   PlaySpace has been profitable almost from the beginning, McCullough added.

4.   Production in Brazil should be profitable from shortly after the start, he said.

5.   The deals are an effort to augment the product pipelines and lift profits by MedImmune and Cephalon, two biotechnology firms that are profitable from product sales.

6.   The small private company, Mankoff insists, has been profitable from the outset, though he declined to say how profitable.

7.   Unlike most big Internet startups, eBay also has been profitable almost from the start.

8.   He did not give details, but he noted the personal computer division was profitable from February to April.

9.   It also said it expected the combined banks to be profitable from the start.

10.   The increase in cargo and business transaction at KPM has helped the company to be profitable from the second full year of its operations.