Over the past year, the Korean electronics giant weathered a radical management shakeup and watched its global market share drop further into the single digits.
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The electronics retailer this afternoon announced a major management overhaul, including the removal of the entire senior-most layer of U.S. operations.
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That pulse is capable of burning out the electronics in a car, including its engine-management system, without harming the occupants.
He has been shy about specifics but shedding underperformers like the electronics testing and chemical analysis businesses would free up management to concentrate on high-growth, high-profit areas like printers, software and its recordable CD-ROM product.
The Technical Solutions segment designs, manufactures, markets and services products that guard and protect some of the world's most sensitive electronics and electronic equipment, as well as heat management solutions designed to provide thermal protection to temperature sensitive fluid applications.
The challenge was daunting: The electronics and entertainment giant was struggling with red ink and management paralysis.
The CEA surveyed 1, 250 adults to assess consumer awareness and attitudes toward energy management and, in particular, how energy efficiency gains in consumer electronics products have changed purchasing habits.
After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering, Cheah added a business management certificate from Stanford, and then worked for a series of electronics and computer companies including Sun Microsystems in California.
What Ando didn't expand upon are the plans Sony has for the digital rights management firm InterTrust, which it just acquired with the help of Phillips Electronics .
Management decided to take a measured approach, selling off smaller defense units such as the Norden electronics business (bought by Westinghouse in 1994) while retaining the engine and helicopter businesses.
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Australian-based Sims Metal Management (SMS, 16) is the world's largest publically traded scrap metal recycler and electronics recycler.
Last November, he proposed an outside slate of directors to pressure management at ITT Corporation, the White Plains, New York-based conglomerate that includes a sizable military electronics component among its various business lines.
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