Sun recently moved a 15-person media division down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area.
The closer you look at Islam, the more fissures appear, from the Shia and Sunni division, down to the smaller Hanefi, Shafii and Hanbali branches and beyond.
Years of budget cuts have whittled the division down to 130 people, including administrators, at a time when the state is seeing more frequent major fires, said George Geissler, the Oklahoma state forester.
In a few short years, however, he has reduced the company's overall debt to $440 million, from $1.2 billion; winnowed its 41 widely disparate divisions down to 21 store formats by unloading most of the underperforming mall specialty stores; sold its elegant headquarters building in Manhattan, and, in perhaps his most dramatic move, closed its fabled dime stores.
The American command has already created military transition teams of soldiers to work with Iraqi troops, and there are plans for up to 10,000 Americans to be attached to Iraqi units at every level from divisions down to battalions and companies, with up to 10 men at the battalion level, and 2 with each company.
Gruebel's experience at Credit Suisse meanwhile lies in investment banking, and is expected to help the bank whittle its wholesale and corporate banking divisions down to the divisions in which UBS is a global leader, while casting off non-core divisions.
"Provides corporate linkage information on more than 170,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions-down to the seventh level of corporate linkage.
Soccer clubs live in fear of relegation to the next division down, leading to loss of merchandising revenues, sponsorships and TV rights.
There were plans aplenty, he found, strategic blueprints for each division, even down to the product level.
"We combed through every single division, right down to where things are stored," said one Sony executive who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid conflict with the studio's public stance.
BBC Worldwide's hunt for a buyer for its magazine division is down to two companies, with German publisher Bauer considered the favourite to become the new owner of titles including Top Gear and Radio Times.
