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A profit centre is any part of an organization to which both costs and income are attributed.

Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit centre."

Each branch is a profit centre and is expected to fully recover costs between 9 and 12 months.

The Technology Products chip business has been turned into a profit centre from its previous status as a cost centre.

The whole thing is a profit centre for Macquarie Bank, though probably not a very large one compared to their other scams.

Why on earth do people keep trotting out the "Mac Pro isn't a profit centre" rubbish?

These comprise about 30 units of accommodation, and we have to regard each of these as a profit centre.'

Atlantic looked an attractive proposition at the time, and the deal was hailed as providing an important new profit centre for the B&C empire.

In creating an overall budget the contribution of each profit centre (its budgeted income less all wholly attributable costs) is the first significant managerial measurement.

Initially the new company had three discrete divisions, each operating as a profit centre, with a separate balance sheet presented to the newly formed management board.

'Everybody needs a second profit centre.'

To avoid confusion with more familiar terms such as'firm', 'profit centre' or even 'strategic business unit'.

'Each club is treated as a profit centre,' Mr Nabakov explains.

Rudd also developed Lotus as an engineering consultancy working on high-technology projects for the rest of the automotive industry, creating another profit centre within the business.

In the 1990s Shell decided that Lensbury should be seen not as exclusively a "staff benefit" but as a "profit centre".

It changes from being a cost centre to a profit centre, and this should stimulate management to aim for better performance and should provide increased job satisfaction.

This prevents the treating of space as a free good and, as an individual profit centre, each department will then rationalise its holdings to minimise its costs.

Strategic Business Unit and Profit Centre - Rock Phosphate at Udaipur.

Epats are a profit centre for Britain because they are forced to buy consular services but don't use up other British services like education, health etc.

Previously organised along functional lines, Bow Valley (in which British Gas has a 54% stake) restructured into separate business units, each an autonomous profit centre.

As the 1980s progressed and the winning Blue Jays became more popular, the sports features became CJCL's profit centre.

Almost immediately STC had financial problems and ICL was ring fenced to preserve it as a profit centre.

MISOF suggests that as a result, the MIS division makes the transition from a cost centre to a profit centre.

One of the most important methods of control is capital budgeting, which is a list of planned investment projects (capital expenditure) normally prepared by the company, division or other profit centre.

Sun has been finding management information system departments, traditionally a cost factor at corporate customer sites, getting more involved in decision-making in the department, a corporate profit centre where budgets are now flowing.

But it's not going to be much of a profit center.

Thus the court is seen as a potential profit center.

"In no way is the market a profit center for us," he said.

"This has become a profit center for many of them," he said.

For the networks, morning television is a major profit center.

As a result, he said, the group's production operation has become a profit center.

It once had 33 profit centers, each with its own general manager.

"Every department is going to run as its own profit center.

And those are also other little profit centers for Apple.

The festival is not only a cultural event but also a profit center for the city.

But for some lucky companies, Iraq is emerging as a profit center.

Music publishing is the profit center of the business and its soul.

A profit center is a section of a company treated as a separate business.

Though it has 4,500 profit centers, only 140 people work at headquarters.

In the process, it is turning patents into a major profit center.

Today the biggest profit center is the sale of plants.

But her potential as a profit center does not seem anywhere near tapped out.

Much of the good news came from the traditional Microsoft profit centers.

Here, they're always talking about the beach like it was basically a profit center for local businesses.

He quickly transformed it from a money loser to a profit center.

"I want departments like this to become profit centers," he said.

Few restaurateurs know about wine other than as a profit center.

Over time, though, it became a major profit center.

"And the production facility itself has turned into a profit center.

Other companies view telephone support as a profit center and charge for helping people use the product.