1.   Although Freedom Securities has been a profitable operation for the insurer, analysts say the company is trying to focus on its main business lines.

2.   A partner in the wildly successful Golan Heights Winery, it also has a profitable bed-and-breakfast operation and extensive apple orchards.

3.   But in an industry ripe for consolidation, analysts said, Bestfoods was in a stronger position to negotiate because of its profitable international operations.

4.   For the past year, Labatt has tried without success to sell minority stakes in those businesses to focus on its more profitable brewing operations.

5.   For BP, the sale is part of a program to realign focus on more profitable refining operations in the face of weak margins worldwide.

6.   Industry analysts say that only the airports of Jakarta and the holiday island of Bali have a high enough volume of passengers for profitable operation.

7.   Instead, the two British banks are aiming to concentrate on their profitable traditional banking operations.

8.   It boasts real businesses that make cold cash, including an already profitable Internet operation.

9.   It distributes subsidies to the mines, and taxes the profitable operations to support the money losers.

10.   It gives the banks a reason to cut their least profitable operations even if it means more aggressive staff reductions, she said.