Big labels, suffering as digital download sales fail to compensate for falling CD sales and the impact of piracy, are launching divisions dedicated to forging partnerships between big brands and their artists.
A recently launched digital division in the US is attempting to take advantage, with the Blender site selling music downloads and ringtones, for example, and the Maxim brand due to be attached to all manner of projects.
In January Time Warner launched a division to chase on-line sales, plotting tie-ins that would bring shudders from journalists if applied to the world of ink and paper.
Sepso is president of Activision Blizzard's recently launched Media Networks division, charged with making franchises like "fnatic" and "Dignitas" as familiar as "Lakers and Yankeeses".
Boeing acquired Hughes's space-launch division in 2000.
When the telecommunication industry slumped, the commercial satellite industry followed suit, and Lockheed was left with a troubled launching division.
On February 1 , 1940 the Red Army launched 14 divisions into a major assault on the Mannerheim Line.
Launched new divisions that supply workers for engineering, health care, and information technology industries.
Spotting this weakness, Grouchy, who had been reinforced by Bordesoulle's division, energetically launched his three divisions against the Coalition squares, dispersing a number of them, with these men disorderly fleeing to take refuge in the Étoges forest.
Hoping to open a new front in the battle for virtual-reality primacy, Jaunt, a start-up that has focused primarily on technology, is launching a division to create original VR content.
