R. R. Donnelley recently expanded its financial printing operation, acquiring two companies that also specialize in filing, Edgar Online and Bowne.
JPMorgan Chase would have to give up the trading operations acquired from Bear Stearns.
Tyson, which is based in Springdale, Ark., sold pork operations acquired in earlier deals along with other nonpoultry operations after losing money on them.
Indeed, its plan is to merge the business with its existing Friends Provident operations, acquired last summer, and grow it by increasing the customer base.
It has also revamped and rebranded retail operations, acquired a leading European auto-parts and service chain, and experimented with superstores and other formats.
After the mid-20th century, analogies with computer operations acquired great currency; in consequence, thinking came to be described in terms of storage, retrieval, and transmission of items of information.
Ford, which seeks billions of dollars in savings as part of the plan, is also expected to refocus on making cars and trucks and shed some of its noncore operations acquired during the bull market, like the British Kwik-Fit chain of auto repair shops.
A full year of Wachovia's operations (acquired in December 2008) helped Wells Fargo reach record figures in both sales and profits in 2009.
In the most dramatic form, it's called restructuring as management discovers that many of those operations acquired in the heady, spendthrift days of the last decade don't look so good in the current one.
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