American anime industry

The chair of AX says the attendees of Anime Expo is averaging about 20 percent annual growth,
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/07/apop.DTL

but Ask John mentioned "The contemporary American anime industry is in dire straights. Evidence suggests that many of America's anime distributors are struggling financially."
http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1123

What's this all about?

Every anime that comes here with the plan to broadcast is ALWAYS gonna get americanized. Naruto for example, 4Kids has already commented that they are gonna do changes to suit the US market. Initial D they totally changed names and accent because Funimation thought they could put it on TV.

Mind the anime series that are for Adult Swim don't get this treatment though.