Sentence examples for independent division from inspiring English sources

At Pillsbury, Mr. Brinker ran Steak and Ale and Bennigan's as an independent division.

The companies said that the management team of Zappos would remain intact and that Zappos would continue to operate as an independent division of Amazon from its offices outside Las Vegas.

New Line Cinema, the very independent division of Time Warner with a 40-year legacy including the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which drew $2.9 billion, was subsumed into another unit, Warner Brothers Studios.

Their company grew steadily through the 80's, became an independent division of Disney in 1993 and after today has to be considered the equal of any of the major studios in Hollywood.

It was, said Rossman in an email, "released by an independent division of a major (Fox Searchlight), had a November release, genres that include 'biography'and 'drama', and keywords like 'slavery' that load pretty strongly".

He hired a longtime Universal lieutenant, Antonio Reid, who is known as L.A., to revamp the sluggish Epic label, by separating it from the Columbia umbrella and making it an independent division.

And so now both the major studios and their independent divisions find themselves short of films.

In the last few years, prestigious universities rushed to start profit-seeking spinoffs, independent divisions that were going to develop online courses.

In 2008, she went knocking on doors for financing in the midst of a recession, when many studios were shuttering their independent divisions.

Computer Associates argues that its sales are strong and improving and that Mr. Wyly's plan to split the company into four independent divisions would deprive it of the scale that has enabled it to compete effectively.

Fox Searchlight, one of the remaining independent divisions of the studio apparatus, had an afterparty at Craft in Century City, where the young Indian stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" had a taste of Hollywood at is most splendid.