[paulasmuth]

Revenue != Income. Gross profit (before paying any taxes) will probably be a fairly small percentage of turnover in manufacturing - you have to pay employees, purchase supplies, etc...

EDIT: just looked it up and most of "industry weeks"'s Top 50 manufacturing companies seem to have profit margins in the 10% range: http://www.industryweek.com/resources/iw50best/2015/48

[charlesdm]

I'm talking about a few million in after tax profit, not revenue.

[rmah]

Say $3mil in net income means a company doing between $20mil to $40mil in revenues. Which typically means between 100 to 200 employees.

This is not "stay small".