Anglo American said it would create seven main business units based on product lines and geographic location: platinum, copper, nickel, metallurgical coal, thermal coal, and two iron ore businesses, in South Africa and Brazil.
From humble beginnings as a teenage butcher, the 44-year old now supplies around a fifth of the chicken sold by Britain's retailers through his main business, 2 Sisters Food Group, based in West Bromwich.
And Google has been moving into each of eBay's main businesses: Google Base lists products for sale; Google Checkout competes in some ways with eBay's PayPal; and Google Talk is an alternative to eBay's Skype online phone service.
Insurance is the main business of the company, which is based in Omaha.
The main business of a company called Command Security Corporation, based in upstate New York, was hiring out security guards, and an association with Rudy Giuliani offered an obvious chance to heighten its profile and trade on his name.
He has strengthened the company's main business of marketing dolls and robots based on characters in comics, cartoons and children's television, even underwriting TV shows so as to boost their popularity.
Mr. Margolis will be based in Los Angeles; the main business offices of Knitting Factory Entertainment are in Boise.
FlightSafety, which is based at LaGuardia Airport, will focus on its main business, training pilots of business jets, regional aircraft and other planes smaller than those made by Boeing, said a spokesman, Roger Ritchie.
One example is Fiat, a huge group based in Turin, in the north-west, whose main business is motor vehicles.
West, based in Lionville, Pa., said it was selling the unit to focus on its main business of making syringe components.
