BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Cash Cow
- a product that sells well and makes a substantial profit without requiring much advertising or investment
- a product characterized by a high market share but low sales growth, whose function is seen as generating cash for use elsewhere within the organization
- see Boston Box
Wiktionary Definition for: Cash Cow
- idiom A product, service, or business that generates ongoing, high profit compared to its cost; a moneymaker.
- Ex:''DVD versions of old movies are presumably major '''cash cows''' for the companies that own them.''
Additional Resources
- eFuture's Cash Cow Keeps Getting Fatter
- Aaron Fletcher submits: eFuture’s EFUT baby cash cow continues to grow fatter, and the pasture it feeds on (China’s retail sales) is getting greener and greener. The latest results on China’s retail sales again showed impressive growth. Many people realize that as the global economy slows,...
- External links 2008-08-07
- How to land a flying cash cow.
- Byline: David Bassanese Dec 21, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Qantas Airways was an obvious cash cow for takeover in 2006. It generated a revenue of $A13.6 billion and from post-tax profits provided around $A400 million in dividends....
- Research articles 2006-12-21
- Cash cow: the red meat category--beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton--has enjoyed a renaissance thanks to low-carb dieting.(Category Report)
- It's not surprising that the popularity of low-carb diets, particularly Atkins, resulted in a cash cow for most meat producers and food processors during the past two years. Consumers spent $531.71 per capita on meat--that is, red meat plus poultry, according to USDA. By...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- SASOL'S SECUNDA CTL PLANT: COSTLY TO BUILD, BUT NOW IT'S A CASH COW
- Doha, Qatar--Sasol's Secunda coal-to-liquids CTL plant may have been built for oil-embargo political reasons more than two decades ago, but today it's looking like a very sweet investment. "Secunda is a cash cow for Sasol," as Sasol Synfuels International manager John Sichinga told the GTL-tec conference here (sponsored...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- The Lofty Price Of Being The Cash Cow
- A very interesting dilemma emerges when a creative team encounters success: they are asked to keep doing exactly what they are doing rather than focusing on new things. In some companies with especially successful teams, this is known as the darker side of becoming a "Cash cow" for the business....
- White papers 2009-05-18
- 'Holy cow' is cash cow.(Short Interests)
- Byline: Brooke Southall SAN FRANCISCO - "It wasn't feel-good. It was holy cow,'' said Tom Burkhart. That is how the chief executive of The Savant Group in San Francisco, which has about $550 million under management,...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Cash-box floats no cash cow yet.
- Byline: Alan Jury Dec 05, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- At least three of Australia's big private equity firms have failed to deliver the returns expected when they listed in 2004. Allco Finance Group, Babcock & Brown and...
- Research articles 2006-12-05
- From Cash Cow to Bull Praxair Produces in Tough Times.
- Divestment from union carbide has proved to be the best thing that ever happened to Praxair (Danbury, CT). Carbide had run its industrial gases division to generate cash in the late 1980s after the Bhopal disaster sent it reeling, and Praxair's future seemed uncertain when the...
- Research articles 1999-03-17
- Stone Street Capital Launches New Branding Campaign and Company Character
- Stone Street Capital, LLC, a leading specialty finance company, has unveiled a new advertising and marketing campaign. Built around the tagline "Cash Now from the Cash Cow™," the campaign uses a friendly cash cow character to give the company a new identity. The new brand mascot, a blue and...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Crown moves toward virtual co.(Crown Crafts Inc. sells assets to Mohawk Industries)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- ATLANTA -- Scrambling to raise cash, pay down debt, lower costs and staunch the flow of red ink, Crown Crafts Inc. has sold off its big woven products business, once its cash cow and crown jewel, but lately something of an albatross. Crown has work ...
- Research articles 2000-10-16
- The Challenge Shared by Verizon and Anheuser-Busch Inbev
- The situation at Verizon VZ and Anheuser-Busch Inbev (AHBIF.PK) is remarkably similar. Verizon's cash cow is Verizon Wireless, where it owns only 55%. However, it fully consolidates VZW. Similarly ABI owns only 61% of Ambev, which is the real cash cow. ABI too consolidates ABV. The fully consolidated businesses at...
- External links 2009-07-27
- PATENT PROFITS.(Lucent Technologies receiving patents)
- 00-00-0000 How lawyers and engineers milk the intellectual-property cash cow. 00-00-0000 How lawyers and engineers milk the intellectual-property cash cow.
- Research articles 1998-11-02
- FDA Approves Rival Drug of Irvine, Calif., Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 12--IRVINE, Calif.--Botox, the blockbuster anti-spasm drug that's been a cash cow for Irvine-based Allergan Inc., has competition. Dec. 12--IRVINE, Calif.--Botox, the blockbuster anti-spasm drug that's been a cash cow for Irvine-based Allergan Inc., has competition.
- Research articles 2000-12-11
- Credit Ratings Lowered for Ford, GM.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Feb. 7--Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. from stable to negative on fears that the light-truck cash cow will run dry. Feb. 7--Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on General...
- Research articles 2001-02-06
- U.S. Cellular running out of room to roam; As lucrative fees dry up, firm dips into urban centers.(Brief Article)
- With its prize cash cow in decline, U.S. Cellular Corp. is looking toward the city lights. A leading provider of cellular telephone service in rural America, Chicago-based U.S. Cellular has made up for the relative scarcity of customers in its pas With its...
- Research articles 2001-07-09
- Did somebody say a loss? McDonald's.(The fast-food giant tries to revive growth)(Company Profile)
- Despite announcing a loss and a new strategy, McDonald's is still trying to act like the growth stock it once was, rather than the cash cow it is today Despite announcing a loss and a new strategy, McDonald's is still trying to act like...
- Research articles 2003-04-12
- Time Warner.(Noted)(Brief Article)
- Time Warner has found a cash cow in its investment of Internet search engine Google, which it inherited from its subsidiary AOL ... Time Warner has found a cash cow in its investment of Internet search engine Google, which it inherited from its subsidiary AOL...
- Research articles 2004-08-30
- Linux to transform IT landscape? Who would have thought that a project from a programmer in Finland--not even on the radar of most people in the IT world--would deliver the most damaging blows to Microsoft's hegemony of the desktop? Is your business ready
- IT'S A WINDOWS world, right? Microsoft's cash cow owns over 90 per cent of the desktop and those who never succumbed to the Seattle charm--such as Apple users--have grown used to being laughed at in the corporate environment. IT'S A WINDOWS world, right?...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Home Shoppers Thin to the Net.
- As television home shopping has developed over the years into a cash cow, the key players in the industry are moving forward with the intent of expanding their respective electronic-commerce prospects and developing new revenue streams, with much o As television home shopping has...
- Research articles 1999-08-16
- Washington's Utility Management Uses Technology to Help Others Save on Energy.(Originated from The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)
- TACOMA, Wash.--Apr. 14--What started as a simple computer program to audit utility bills has grown into a potential cash cow that several Tacomans think will make them rich. TACOMA, Wash.--Apr. 14--What started as a simple computer program to audit utility bills...
- Research articles 1997-04-12
