Companies make a profit when their gross income is greater than their expenses. Expenses can include renting equipment and paying employees.
It highly depends on the company.
Credit card companies earn profits by charging interest.
investors
To make profits. Companies need customers. If someone wants their products, they will sell them to them. There are many products that companies in the US make that people in Europe and Russia, and other parts of the world, want to buy. So naturally the companies will sell to them. That creates bigger profits for the companies and creates many jobs in the US. If they only made goods for the US and did not export anything, there would be less jobs and less profits, which obviously would not be a good thing.
Waffles were meant to be tasty so that the companies could make large profits by selling the waffles.
companies compete for profits. just finished my quiz on apex. :)
Insurance companies make money by collecting premiums and deductibles from customers. Not everyone will ever use their insurance policy, so the company profits from those cases.
to earn profits
The benefits to companies is a gain in capital, which can be used to expand business activity and buy investments. This will hopefully mean the company will make increased profits.
A CEO of a company could make up to $200,000 per year and around 10 % of the companies profits.
Capitalism is an economic system in which private companies run their business solely without government intervention. These private companies decides own their own , what product to make, where to sell, cost of production. profits on sales etc.
to maximize profits for their owners.