A total of 14 key informants were interviewed including nine farmers, four officers from ministry of agriculture and health and one policy maker form ZEMA, Lusaka.
In 1998 the world's biggest handset-makers formed a consortium, called Symbian, to develop smartphone software.
The MeadWestvaco Corporation, a paper and packaging maker formed through a merger in January, had a first-quarter loss and said it would eliminate 3,000 jobs, or 10percentt of its work force, by 2004.
The two film-makers formed their own gang at film school, being not just the only two non-white students but also the only ones with unashamedly commercial ambitions.
Dow Kokam, a new lithium-ion battery maker formed by Dow Chemical and two other companies, broke ground in May in Midland, Mich., on a $322 million, 400,000-square-foot plant.
Last year, the Finnish phone maker formed a partnership with Microsoft to make handsets featuring Windows Phone, Microsoft's mobile operating system, which hasn't gained much traction in a phone market dominated by Apple and Google.
Late last year Aventis, the giant drug maker formed from the marriage of Hoechst Marion Roussel and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, announced it would put its North American headquarters in two buildings, totaling 620,000 square feet, now being built in Bridgewater, consolidating operations now in Kansas City, Mo., and Collegeville, Pa.
Motorola and Proview International Holdings, a Hong Kong computer monitor maker, formed a joint venture, Moxell, to produce Motorola-brand HDTV sets and other home entertainment products.
Oracle orcl saw solid gains after the diversified software maker formed a joint venture with Ford Motor Co. f to help the automaker streamline the way it buys materials and parts from its suppliers.
