While the company is focused on lithium carbonate, an updated feasibility study in October 2012 showed the ability to produce an additional 2, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and up to 30, 000 tons of sodium sulphate annually.
And while the company has been aggressively focused on growing its own online greeting cards business, the competition in this market from the likes of privately-held Hallmark, Shutterfly (SFLY) and the behemoth that is Apple (AAPL), is fairly tough.
The suburban Chicago drug and medical product giant is splitting into a medical products business that will be called AbbVie, and trade under a new ticker symbol, ABBV, while the other company will retain the Abbott name and largely be focused on medical products including devices, diagnostics and nutritional products.
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While focused on running the company, the team is also hard at work building a strategy and operational plan to deliver greater than 5 percent organic growth and 30 percent operating margins on a sustainable basis within the next two-to-three years.
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While Mr. Dorsey has focused on the design of the company's products, including its signature square-shaped credit-card processor, Mr. Rabois has been focused on running other parts of the business, such as marketing and business development.
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While Mr. Dorsey has focused on the design of the company's products, including its signature square-shaped credit card processor, Mr. Rabois has been focused on running other parts of the business, such as marketing and business development.
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While the company boasts a strong U.S. presence, it is focused on growing internationally as well.
While Batista focused on operations as chief executive of JBS USA (the company's American subsidiary), Joesley stayed in Brazil as JBS' chief executive, focused on finance.
In the meantime, he noted that the company is focused on continuing to secure as much content as possible while expanding its platform through new hardware and OEM licensing with TV manufactures.
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Sure, Microsoft announced the business version of Office 365 a while ago, but previous efforts at a rental model by the Redmond company were less consumer focused, in no way a Netflix of productivity but instead awkward first attempts to fast-follow Google and others into the software as a service space while not really feeling it.
He says the company is very focused on taking success from PCs to tablets and phones, while continuing to focus on Xbox.
Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp has focused on building the company's user base for its minimalist blogging platform while leaving for later the question of earning money.
Caterpillar shares are off 8.1% this year, and investors remain overly focused on broad macroeconomic forecasts that the company issued, Mulholland says, even while the company posts record profits.
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