The Tyumen Oil Company, Russia's fourth-largest oil producer, is pushing ahead with a plan to streamline its assets, one of the industry's last and quietest corporate revampings.
If Verizon does indeed take Verizon Wireless of Vodafone's hands, it would fit into Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao's strategy for the company, which has been to streamline its assets after years of rapid expansion.
One place to look, Shah says, is companies that have been streamlining by selling off assets.
The PDF simplified the hard work of going to Kinko's, because the file format was able to easily embed assets like fonts and images, streamlining one of the hardest parts of getting a file printed.
In other words, BP may be streamlining but it has also lost some profitable assets, like the group of oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico that it sold to Plains Exploration & Production for $5.6 billion in September.
We continue to focus and make progress on reducing the assets on our balance sheet, reducing expenses and streamlining our business for future profitable growth".
Greece needs to make serious, painful reforms, including doing away with antiquated labor rules, streamlining a bloated public sector and selling off poorly managed state assets.
HSBC has been selling assets to streamline its business.
With the sovereign debt crisis dragging on and the economy slumping, the British bank has been moving to shed assets and streamline its global operations in a bid to increase profitability.
"Kodak is making good progress toward emergence from Chapter 11, taking significant actions to reorganize our core ongoing businesses, reduce costs, sell assets and streamline our organizational structure," Antonio M. Perez, the company's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement.
