The foodmaker expects the divestiture will allow it to move quicker in its emerging markets expansion.
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But DaimlerChrysler's unions had been ostensibly against private-equity involvement in the divestiture of the American unit.
On November 23, 2010, they announced they had completed the divestiture of its Enterprise Integration Group.
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The company said that divestiture of its retail store solutions business reduced revenue by about 1%.
Establishing certainty regarding the divestiture of this business is in the best interests of our shareholders.
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There is speculation that First Pacific's divestiture program is a way to raise cash for the Indonesians.
Fragmentation and divestiture seems to be the name of the game among big integrated oil and gas names.
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She has led PepsiCo's restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into YUM!
In the ten years after the divestiture of Standard Oil in 1911, for example, the trust's constituent companies quintupled in value.
Another likely divestiture is Argentina, where the government has nationalized oil assets.
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Imagine the Sarbanes-Oxley truth serum applied to merger and divestiture announcements.
Disposals will generate cash following gains from this year's divestiture of drinks and a few small sales last year, such as a Dutch confectioner.
The Treasury Department and Huawei are working on a divestiture agreement, although Mr. Plummer said he cannot speak about the details of that agreement.
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Despite calls for Pepsi to spin off its snacks division, the company said as recently as last month that it has no divestiture plans.
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Both the planned divestiture and the Autonomy buy have garnered some serious support on ZDNet and elsewhere but the naysayers well outnumber those supporters.
When excluding the effects of a divestiture in the first quarter of 2010, Kraft earned 52 cents per share, beating Wall Street expectations of 47 cents.
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Then after the 2008 financial crisis, there was another phase to the company, which involved the divestiture of the businesses for mobile infrastructure and yellow pages.
NatWest will not say whether a divestiture is in the works, but it has hired Lazard Brothers, a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist, to help sort out its investment-banking strategy.
From a strictly business standpoint, these varied settlements may still be welcome milestones for Bank of America, as is the ongoing divestiture of non-performing mortgage-related assets.
After CFIUS recommended against the transaction, Huawei voluntarily divested the 3Leaf assets rather than wait for a presidential order that would almost certainly have forced a divestiture.
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The second thing Israel should do is empower its supporters abroad by actively discrediting the UN, the International Criminal Court and advocates of boycotts and divestiture from Israel.
Corbat has worked at Citigroup since graduating from Harvard in 1983, and before his overseas posting, Corbat led Citi Holdings, overseeing the divestiture of more than 40 businesses.
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Huawei also views that spectrum divestiture as a business opportunity.
On rare occasions, as in the U.K., a firm might be allowed to go beyond normal limits in the auction if it had already agreed to an as-yet-completed divestiture.
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The divestiture move should be encouraged, with Washington telling one and all that these moves are merely preliminary to more forceful economic actions Washington is prepared to take if necessary.
The Court of Appeals questioned whether divestiture or breakup is ever appropriate for a company, like Microsoft, that gained its monopoly through internal growth, rather than through merger and acquisition.
After a withering campaign directed against state legislators and officials and college administrations, the 50 states began passing laws to require divestiture of the stock of companies operating in South Africa.
The firm suffered significant losses during the global economic recession that followed, starting with the costly divestiture deal with the Citadel Investment Group in late 2007 to offload its subprime portfolio.
The publication noted that Ralcorp rejected multiple takeover attempts from ConAgra (CAG) this year, but quoted an investor who thinks Ralcorp could still be an acquisition target, particularly after the divestiture.
The shift in SRI from a purely religious or faith-based focused investment approach to one with a broader perspective got a jump-start with the South Africa divestiture movement in the 1970s and '80s.
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