Even without an asset swap, it's no secret that JPMorgan Chase would like to build on its retail division.
In the first nine months of 2001 the operating margin at the retail division rose to 16.1% from 14.7%.
But BT says its own-brand broadband from its retail division is also caning the opposition, winning 64% of new connections in the last quarter.
The former corporate chief said that he was pushed into boosting the targets for his division, as a result of the retail division under-performing.
For example, the retail division, which was called Enron Energy Services, they lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars in just one quarter.
It adds a third strand to the group's business, somewhere between its profitable but volatile luxury interests and its steadier but less lucrative retail division.
The possible sale of the retail division was the subject of rumors for months, which the company denied in a statement issued in October.
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The shake-up and introduction of more own-brands helped gross margin - a measure of profitability - at JJB's retail division improve from 50.8% last year to 51.7% this year.
The retail banking division also saw an increase in the amount of loans advanced.
RBS's retail head office division currently employs 3, 200 people.
Since 2006, the company operated as two segments: a luxury retail jewelry and watch division under the iconic Harry Winston brand name and a diamond mining business.
The asset management division provides retail investors with a full range of mutual fund and alternative investment products, and institutional clients with a fully integrated asset management offering.
Last month, discount shoe retailer DSW, a division of Retail Ventures (nyse: RVI - news - people ), said that electronic records of more than 100, 000 customers had been stolen.
No, the big enchilada for Skilling is neither Enron 's failed broadband division nor its retail energy business, as Bethany McLean reports him predicting in The Smartest Guys in the Room, the book she co-authored with fellow Fortune reporter Peter Elkind.
Jane, a sales manager in a product division of a large retail company, noticed a recent trend in her sales data.
In fact, a new survey by shop.org, the digital division of the National Retail Federation, says that 97.3% of online retailers will offer discounts during Thanksgiving weekend before Cyber Monday, up from 90% last year.
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In a trading update for the three months to 30 September, the hotels and betting group said growth in its hotels division and in UK retail betting was offsetting lower profitability in telephone betting and the effect of continuing investment in e-gaming.
In an asset swap, JPMorgan could take the retail branches and cede some of its securities processing division to Bank of New York.
In 1989, the American division of McDonald's, the largest retail food-service company on the planet, struck a deal with one of America's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to solving the world's environmental problems.
His unit will now work across Standard Life's retail, corporate, wealth and direct-to-customer division.
Working with Lilien, Caplan integrated into one back office the retail and institutional bank, the lending department and the trading division, making operations more efficient and helping salesfolk cross-sell products to account holders.
The rest are to be bundled into the bank's private-client and asset-management division, which houses Deutsche Bank 24, the retail-banking arm (which already serves some small firms in any case), private banking (for richer customers) and Deutsche's online broker, called maxblue.
John Browett is out as head of retail and Apple is once again on the hunt for someone lead this division.
The tapes contained information about United States branch network customers of CitiFinancial, the company's consumer finance division, as well as customers with closed accounts from CitiFinancial Retail Services.
The most obvious example is Apple, which last month got rid of Scott Forstall, boss of its iOS software division, and John Browett, who very briefly ran the retail operation.
Sears had put the division up for sale back in March, saying that it wanted to concentrate on its core retail business.
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