However, we believe there is great opportunity to further expand the consumer products business.
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Microsoft opened its check book and spent like crazy in its effort to defend its historical PC products business.
Ed Clark, the boss of Canada's TD, recalls the heat he got from analysts for exiting the structured-products business.
We also plan to leverage Disney's global consumer products organization to grow the Star Wars consumer products business internationally.
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He started in the promotional products business at 19 in his native Iowa.
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Groupon has been struggling with its core daily deals business while it builds out a new products business.
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The answer will test Gillette's unusual approach to innovation in the consumer-products business.
The chief financial officer, Peter Sparks, is from the U.K. and Allen Liang from Taiwan runs the infant and baby products business group.
Hospira ( HSP) operated as the hospital products business of Abbott Laboratories until it was spun off into a stand-alone entity in 2004.
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Under Harold Geneen, an Englishman who headed the American company for many years, ITT simultaneously owned bakeries, telephone companies, hotels and a forest-products business.
The sale or spinoff would be just one of several by drugmakers: Pfizer spun off its veterinary products business, and Abbott Laboratories divested its drugs unit.
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Meanwhile, its grocery products business saw no growth in revenue, in large part because of a drop in sales at its Australian subsidiary George Weston Foods.
The bank is facing scrutiny of its structured products business.
Yet the incentive to expand geographically is obvious: Pretax earnings growth from international markets was 23% in fiscal 2010, compared with 7% for the core North American cleaning-products business.
RadioShack's key wireless products business has long been deteriorating.
"The AL13SE Series provides enterprise customers with capacities up to 900GB that support a broad range of enterprise applications, " said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Toshiba's Storage Products Business Unit.
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But later Grupo Brescia regained a foothold in the fish products business with Tecnologica de Alimentos SA, which is now the largest producer of fish meal and fish oil in the world.
"At Sony Mobile we continue to evaluate innovative technologies that can help deliver the premium user experiences that Sony's consumers expect, " said Bob Ishida, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Products Business Group, Sony Mobile Communications.
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But it is another to understand that its core building-products business, the one it is supposed to be focusing on, is selling to a construction industry that remains flat on its back in Thailand and pretty dismal throughout Asia.
Other potential billionaires include Steven Blumgart and Gary Fegel, the co-heads of the aluminum business as well as Christian Wolfensberger and Stuart Cutler, the co-heads of the ferroalloys, nickel and cobalt business, and Chris Mahoney, head of the agricultural products business.
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The suburban Chicago drug and medical product giant is splitting into a medical products business that will be called AbbVie, and trade under a new ticker symbol, ABBV, while the other company will retain the Abbott name and largely be focused on medical products including devices, diagnostics and nutritional products.
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The biggest move would be to spin off the Established Products generics business.
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The stock moved up 3% after the report showed that Monsanto's new products and business in South America and the U.S. are picking up.
But OpenSocial's huge network may create a bigger target for social networking site hackers than has ever existed before, says Adam Nash, senior director of products at business networking site LinkedIn.
Products, business platforms and solutions to accelerate intellectual property-led innovation, including Finacle, its banking product, which offers solutions to address core banking, mobile banking and e-banking needs of retail, corporate and universal banks worldwide.
The danger with this approach is that it leaves an opening for someone else to innovate and create the right insurance products and business models for the emerging world where driverless cars are pervasive.
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"Kensington customers have told us they need the highest physical safeguard possible for laptops while still having easy access to their hardware, and we listened, " said Rob Humphrey, Director, Security Products Global Business at Kensington.
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The problem with trial lawyers performing a regulatory function is that lawsuits take years or even decades to come to trial, meanwhile the company producing bad products continues business as usual, profiting while increasing the number of victims.
Based on volumes of activity and current cost structures of many banks, operating costs may need to fall by 20%-45% and the balance sheet by 50%-75%, through closing or selling branches, products, business lines, and even entire regions.
The Microsoft technology vision and strategy take advantage of our unique combination of experience in consumer products, business applications, and Microsoft Store retail operations to offer retailers solutions that do more, helping them to be dynamic as they meet and exceed customer expectations.
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