11.   Analysts said Degussa is also benefiting from recent reorganization which has led it to focus on its most profitable businesses.

12.   Analysts said Havas now needs to sell less profitable businesses.

13.   An up-and-coming Internet investment firm, CMGI Inc., licensed the Lycos technology and sought to turn Internet searching into a profitable business.

14.   Analysts noted that the adjusted figure includes profitable businesses that Accor no longer owns.

15.   And of course, there was Sally Stanford, who ran a profitable business in San Francisco before becoming mayor of Sausalito.

16.   And many in town believed that unprofitable living.com was draining money from a profitable business.

17.   And the company wants money to expand its leather goods and accessory lines, highly profitable businesses for other fashion houses.

18.   BankAmerica joins many U.S. banks in shedding less profitable businesses.

19.   Bank of America has been looking to restructure and sell its less profitable businesses.

20.   Besides its profitable non-woven business, Dominion Textile makes textiles such as denim internationally.