But, most dangerously, he turned from buying to selling in an operation that became one-stop slick.
When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.
In November, the bank reported a third quarter loss of 2.85bn euros for the July to September period, mainly due to the cost of selling its Greek operation Emporiki.
He has been selling incremental businesses over the last few months, including an employee-benefits joint venture the firm had with State Street Corp. (nyse: STT - news - people ), but doesn't seem ready to take the bold step of selling a major operation, like its Smith Barney brokerage division.
With the proceeds from selling part of their consulting operation, the pair opened Yes To offices in Tel Aviv and Sydney in 2006.
The company has built an efficient operation that is based on selling nicely functional simulation tools through a balanced sales channel of direct and VAR partners.
Its operation is staffed by locals, selling mostly local products to local customers.
He told BBC Radio Scotland that the three divisions hade been working independently but there were "cross-selling" and other opportunities through closer co-operation.
During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.
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In 1999 Johnson launched "Operation Excel, " shutting down 20 factories and selling the Weight Watchers business to better focus on foodstuffs--ketchups, condiments, sauces, canned tuna and jarred and frozen vegetables.
From selling ad space alone, Nollywood Love became profitable after just two months of operation, says Njoku.
The Fed instead extended its Operation Twist program aimed at keeping long-term borrowing costs low by selling short-term Treasurys and putting the money into long-term bonds.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which closed the operation Aug. 17, accused Burks in a civil complaint of fraud and selling unregistered securities.
That's the conundrum posed by this weekend's sting operation in which the News of the World, Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid, set up a group of people who, it says, wanted to buy bomb-making material on behalf of a Saudi backer.
For a few years breeding goats and selling raw fiber was a break-even enterprise for the Al-Rafiqs, who supported the operation by keeping their day jobs.
At the trial, the prosecution said that during a 2008 sting operation by U.S. drug enforcement agents in Thailand, Bout believed he was selling weapons to Colombian guerrillas.
This latter argument distinguishes between reporting schemes applicable to conduct engaged in openly (such as selling fruit subject to price controls) and conduct that is otherwise concealed (such as operating an illicit gambling operation).
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In a separate case, but one also brought as a result of the Operation Elveden inquiry, a prison worker at a high-security jail appeared before the court accused of selling information to the Sun relating to a "high-profile prisoner".
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