In the United States, Westfield has shed properties in the Midwest while focusing on the more affluent coasts.
But those discussions came to an abrupt halt late Friday when Mandalay issued a statement rejecting the offer and complaining that the terms put too much risk on Mandalay in case regulators sought to force the combined company to shed properties to receive approval for the transaction.
Other companies that could shed properties include Cabot Oil & Gas, which controls 10,000 net acres in the Haynesville that's non-core to the company and could be monetized over time, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. wrote in a recent note.
If it is successful, the big banks, eager to shed property portfolios, may well become customers rather than competitors.
The city also purchased the Hopkins Trust parcels on Bluebird Canyon Drive for open space, but shed property on Olive and Linden streets.
Greece's new prime minister, Lucas Papademos, and Mario Monti of Italy are internationally credible economists, committed to making painful but much needed reforms, including liberalizing labor markets, shrinking overgrown bureaucracies, shedding state properties and rooting out corruption.
By understanding the factors that produce these patterns, the researchers say, it should become easier to design synthetic materials with exactly the kinds of surfaces needed for specific applications — such as better traction, or water-shedding properties.
Shedding the property could fit well with a larger strategy to solve "the peanut butter" problem.
The ayatollah said Najaf and other Shiite cities were "experiencing tragic circumstances now, in which sanctities are violated, blood is shed, and properties destroyed, with no deterrence".
