To expand on his electronics business he decided his next step would be home appliances.
Mr Kozlowski himself will run the rump, which combines the security-systems unit with the electronics business.
Exxon rapidly withdrew from the electronics business, for example, and BP retreated from coal.
Senior executives in the military electronics business are already giving that topic a lot of thought.
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It has, in the past decade, entirely revolutionised two parts of the consumer electronics business.
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Sony has improved margins in its electronics business and reduced headcount by 10, 000 ahead of schedule.
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"We must answer to the challenge of making our electronics business profitable, no matter what, " he said.
Toshiba, an electronics and engineering group, saw the disc as its route back into the consumer-electronics business.
It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
With myriad parts in the electronics business, tens of thousands of specialist merchants have arisen to handle their quirks.
The new restructuring measures announced today, relating to Sony's headquarters and electronics business operations in Japan are as follows.
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If Philips shed its low-margin consumer electronics business, it could become the undisputed globally dominant near-pure play for 21st century illumination.
Amidst a highly competitive business environment, Sony has been undertaking a series of measures to revitalize and grow its electronics business.
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It also turned out to be a nice fit for Federated, whose Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores can't compete with discounters in the consumer-electronics business.
But Boeing had also acquired North American Rockwell with its space business, and later gained satellite expertise by buying parts of Hughes's electronics business.
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The electronics business is so big that if it were an independent enterprise, it would be on the Fortune 200 list of major corporations.
It also turned out to be a nice fit for Federated, whose Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores can't compete in the consumer-electronics business with discounters like Best Buy.
Sony posted an unexpected quarterly loss, demonstrating the depth of the problems facing its electronics business and deflating optimism that was reflected in a recent share-price rally.
Sony's core electronics business, which still accounts for 60% of the group's overall sales, is in trouble because the company has failed to keep up with the times.
Just clarifying what happens to margins in the electronics business.
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Its consumer electronics and business electronics divisions, and its business making components such as screens and semiconductors, are strong and share enough features to gain from each other's presence.
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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Recently, in order to further improve profitability, flat-screen TVs from Hitachi Consumer Electronics business, which will be transferred to Hitachi CM group responsible for overall sales across the Hitachi brand home appliances.
The radars and a host of other electronics gear are assembled at an adjacent complex owned by Lockheed Martin, which until recently was also the headquarters of its sprawling military-electronics business unit.
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Wall Street knows me very well, and if I say that Tessera has a very bright future inventing smaller, faster, and cheaper technology for the electronics business, they can take that to the bank.
The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
Fortunes change rapidly in the consumer electronics business.
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The core of the electronics business is a legendary New England technology enterprise once known as Sanders, which may be the most knowledgeable organization in the world on arcane missions like signals intelligence and jamming.
Former CEO Bruce Albertson tried to push the company toward the consumer electronics business with music players, in an attempt to leverage the Zip brand name that the company had so successfully built in the mid-1990s.
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