At issue is Tyson's decision to seek concessions from labor despite healthy profits.

On the other, cash flow is holding up well, despite weaker profits, giving business the wherewithal to spend more.

Despite huge profits, many e-pornographers have a hard time finding bankers willing to represent them.

Despite improving profits, several airlines, still have deep financial and operational problems that will force them to try continually to grab market share.

Despite flat profits, it was been a good year for Padico.

Despite fairly strong profits, Ford is eliminating 6,000 jobs in its car development division.

Despite tiny sales and microscopic profits, it had surged to a total market value of $4 billion.

Despite worse than expected profits reported last month, Neill's shares lost only 6p to 191p as bid speculation limited the fall.

Yesterday they were unchanged at $45, despite higher-than-expected profits for its fiscal third quarter.

"It was a great airline until the last few years when they began angering employees by asking for cutbacks despite huge profits."