Today they're growing three times as fast as the farm equipment division.

FORBES: Bucking the downtrend

An engineer who joined Toshiba in 1953 and rose up the ranks to head the heavy equipment division and later to oversee finance and production, Sato embarked on a cost-cutting exercise and moved to restructure the sprawling company.

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This gives the Americans a full division's worth of equipment in Kuwait which could be activated at short notice, its soldiers flown in from the US or Germany and then deployed into the field.

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The division fixes about 800 pieces of equipment a day.

FORBES: Logistics in Brown

Gullotti, a compact, earthy Bostonian, arrived in 1994 after having run Digital Equipment's 40, 000-strong computer services division.

FORBES: Instant feedback in the classroom

They support that with a dealer network, and they have a growing division that rebuilds the big machines, extending the lives of the equipment even further.

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Working with David Liddle, who ran Xerox's office systems division, Mr Metcalfe convinced Gordon Bell, a brilliant computer scientist from the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation, to back the Ethernet protocol.

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