"By making it a stand-alone division, we communicate that it's important," he said.
G.M. is reconstituting Cadillac as a stand-alone division, with its own marketing, product development and management teams.
RJ Palmer will operate as a stand-alone division of MDC; all of its senior managers and 70 employees are to continue with the agency.
Instead, they tried to run Chrysler as a stand-alone division and failed to take advantage of opportunities to develop vehicles together.
Over the past four years he has reorganized it as a stand-alone division, boosted its research budget and quadrupled its sales force.
In contrast to many Internet retailers who burned through much of their investors' money on get-poor-quick schemes to acquire customers, Diller already has plenty: If it had been a stand-alone division last year, the Internet and services side would have reported $900 million in revenues in ticket sales, dating services, astrology readings, hotel reservations and so on.
Designed as a guided presentation, or a stand alone.
Will it be a stand alone unit?
For the past year, the survival of Pontiac as a stand-alone GM division was not expected to continue.
Tencent has set up a stand-alone e-commerce division; it runs Paipai, a Taobao competitor, and recently bought 51buy.com, which competes with Tmall.
With HealthSpring, Cigna will add 340,000 Medicare Advantage customers in 11 states and Washington, as well as a stand-alone Medicare prescription division with more than 800,000 customers.
