Sentence examples for sell off divisions from inspiring English sources

Can we sell off divisions?

The funds buy stakes in companies and put pressure on management to release cash, sell off divisions or take other actions to increase shareholder returns.

As someone who joined The Times right around the time the Internet was beginning to wreak havoc on the newspaper business, I have watched us tighten our belts, offer buyouts, sell off divisions and even, in 2009, borrow $250 million from Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican billionaire.

The targets' stocks rise highest when they are forced to sell off divisions.

They'd back the loans with the company assets, then typically sell off divisions and slim payrolls, and resell the company to the public at a higher share price -- pocketing the gains.

Weyerhaeuser, the former lumber giant, trimmed 1,000 jobs and sold off divisions.

That proved more attractive than selling off divisions, which would have incurred big tax hits for shareholders.

The company has been selling off divisions such as the Economist and the Financial Times to concentrate on its educational business but this is now currently struggling.

The deal, if consummated, would be the latest step by VeriSign as the company sells off divisions to focus on its core business: maintaining tens of millions of Internet domain names.

"Effectively Motorola is a conglomerate," Wilson said, "and I think selling off divisions, spinning off divisions, or breaking up the company might be a good thing.

With defense spending in decline, GD had been selling off divisions, notably its F-16 fighter operation, and handing the cash back to shareholders.