The defense contractor has been divesting businesses in an attempt to streamline its operations.
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In a tacit admission of defeat, the company is divesting its used-car and rental-car operations.
Pfizer will explore divesting its nutrition business, which sells baby formula, and its animal health business.
Avoiding such distractions has been a major motivation for pharmaceuticals companies divesting other businesses.
Today, environmentalists such as Bill McKibben and his 350.org are leading the charge for divesting from big polluters.
The company said it had been divesting controlling stakes in businesses that it sees as non-core and non-competitive assets.
But, more and more, chemical firms have been divesting their drug units.
Some are trying to cover their strategy and the risk by divesting half of the asset others are just cashing in their chips.
Corbat previously was in charge of winding down the Citi Holdings portfolio, among other positions, so he certainly has experience in divesting businesses.
Moreover, divesting oneself of assets that would otherwise have been available to satisfy a disgorgement order has routinely been condemned by the courts.
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The disinvestment minister Arun Shourie kick-started the privatisation of government-owned companies by divesting 25% of the government stakes in car maker Maruti Udyog in June last year.
C. takes the firm into receivership, divesting it of its bad assets and returning its healthy assets to the private sector as quickly as possible.
Blackburn, an Arlington, Va. collector who is divesting all his guns, accumulated a meticulous assemblage of guns from the American Revolution through the 20th century.
It split up conflicting areas of financial activities, forcing financial firms to choose which one they would operate within, while divesting themselves of the others.
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This included divesting itself of its GEO Care subsidiary, which provided medical and mental health services through government contracts, including at some prisons and jails.
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We cannot simply accept Wall Street refrains that divesting is hard because fossil fuels are embedded in our economy, and are profitable to boot.
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There may or may not be a cost to investing in fossil fuels, and divesting from fossil fuels will not stop the economy running on them.
The company also is in the process of strengthening its position in the luxury and sports and lifestyle categories while divesting its holdings in other areas.
It plans to follow this up by merging, divesting or liquidating another 2, 000 state-owned companies (roughly a third of the total) over the next three years.
In divesting that division, the company is reacting to a perceived market trend and, by doing so, it reinforces the perception that that trend is indeed inexorable.
Mr Netanyahu had explicitly rejected the land-for-peace principle that drove the process: his achievement, he claimed, would be to give Israel security without divesting it of land.
Recently Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, announced that she was divesting the portion of her investment portfolio that was invested in companies doing business in Sudan.
Because effective leadership requires succeeding through others, it brings with it the problem of divesting control, building capabilities, providing direction, guidance and inspiration to people other than yourself.
If they can, they should be divesting non-core business lines.
But the company does not appear opposed to divesting brands.
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As I detailed in 2011, there is a big push for Pfizer, which is already divesting its baby formula and veterinary divisions, to split its drug division in two.
Morgans, headed by Yucaipa veteran Michael Gross as chief executive since 2011, is remaking itself into a hotel manager, divesting its hotels and keeping contracts to manage them for the new owners.
Ultimately this new direction is less a problem for the administration, which is in the process of divesting its shares of "New GM" at a loss, than it is for General Motors.
Smaller miners could look to bulk up by buying assets that the major miners are divesting, and the big players will still be on the hunt for the right kind of assets.
Governments possessing large cash reserves are now looking to maximize returns long-term and are doing so by divesting chunks of those reserves from their central bank and creating funds known as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs).
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