The rebooting of cherished fictional characters of the past has become a profitable industry for publishers, authors and estates in recent years.

Tourism was a very profitable industry in the pre-independence period.

Also, natural resource extraction can be a very profitable industry (high value added), e.g., oil extraction.

This has proved a profitable industry where blinds can now be controlled from electronic hand-held devices.

Fish farming became a new, profitable industry along the coast.