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THEY are the corporate billionaires - the companies whose annual profits run into billions. There are many more of them than there used to be, and they include a handful of British companies who have joined the top ranks of the most profitable in the world.
It is not that long ago since the announcement of a Pounds 1bn profit would provoke cries of outrage across the country from unions and consumer bodies, amid frenzied calculations of how much they were making per day, per hour or per second.See the full content of this document
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Sky's the Limit for Highflying Firms
Today, however, having witnessed the profits of oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and BP top Pounds 10bn, we are becoming blase. The biggest banks, HSBC and the Royal B...
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