Anyone selling ad unit faces declining prices and, of course, increased competition as competitors try to maintain revenues.
It pitted divisions against one another in pushing CSG to devote more sales staff to selling one unit's wares over another's.
Part of the reason is that the chain is selling more unit-dose laundry detergent, like Tide Pods, which have a profit margin up to 5% lower than liquid laundry for retailers.
Selling that unit may be attractive to Barclays because potential cost synergies with a local suitor mean it would probably also get a higher offer price than from Barclays or the RBS consortium.
And General Electric is exiting the business altogether by selling its insurance unit to Swiss Re.
It has already listed subsidiaries in Brazil, Chile and Peru, as well as selling its Colombian unit.
Now Aventis is testing the idea of selling its agrochemicals unit.
And General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) is exiting the business altogether by selling its insurance unit to Swiss Re.
Meanwhile Samsung and Apple are leading in tablets and smartphones, while IBM has successfully positioned itself as a software giant after selling its PC unit to Lenovo.
As well as selling metal and a power unit they could bolster revenues by selling car and travel apps to go alongside all those downloads from Apple and Android.
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Honeywell has thus far only taken the baby step of selling its performance fibers unit, whose products go into tires and ropes.
And the unit was selling: in April, tech blogs had rumors that three hundred thousand Kindle 2s had shipped since the release date of February 24th.
General Electric topped both sales and profit expectations, showing a 21% gain in earnings per share on a 4% decrease in revenues, associated mainly with selling its NBC Universal unit to Comcast.
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The three Welsh Labour leadership contenders recently called for tough action against Wales' drinking culture, referring to anecdotal evidence of certain types of alcohol selling at 11p a unit in some areas, and concerns about licensing issues and availability.
Mediaset, which currently relies on a conventional broadcast model, could strike a deal with the nationalised unit to start selling television via the latter's broadband network.
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Last week Nike sued the Adidas unit for allegedly selling unauthorized New York Jets T-shirts and other apparel featuring new team quarterback Tim Tebow's name and number.
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The company noted that it has been selling the Galvanic Spa facial unit for 10 years in the U.S. as a cosmetic appliance, and that the product has a solid safety record.
This was the cornerstone of a new financial-services division, also selling personal loans, insurance and unit-trust investments.
In the second and third quarters of this year, reports TeleSpan analyst Elliot Gold, Polycom was the unit sales leader, selling 7, 759 ViewStation systems to PictureTel's 7, 180 and VTEL's 2, 000.
Pachter believes Sony suffered a 21 percent drop in unit sales last month by selling 240, 000 PlayStation 3s.
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This unit also includes the buying, selling and transporting of crude oil and petroleum products.
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Spanish employment data, hedge fund selling, and political rhetoric over a strong single unit causing economic problems are only some of the issues that this 17-member currency club is dealing with this morning.
Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric.
Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
Through the first 9 months of the year, a combination of 21% unit growth and 7.5% improvement in average selling prices generated 30% revenue growth for workhorse IT computers, according to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
This includes shutting some overseas plants and selling off some of its businesses, such as its healthcare and logistics unit.
After these moves and the shutdown of its desktop-printer unit last September, Kodak's future is now pinned on selling printing equipment and services to companies.
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But Moynihan has spent much of the last year pushing to get BofA working again by cutting costs with his Project New BAC plan, and selling non-core assets like its non-U.S. wealth management unit, for instance.
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