Sentence examples for struggling unit from inspiring English sources

The company also hired a new head of apparel, long a struggling unit, earlier this year.

The Fox Business Network hired Charlie Gasparino, the veteran financial reporter, on Tuesday, in an attempt by the struggling unit of the News Corporation to improve its standing.

But according to people familiar with that phone call in March, Mr. Kravis and his two colleagues fruitlessly batted around a number of ideas before hitting on a possible solution: the firm could try to buy the European affiliate outright, a takeover that would allow K.K.R. to shore up the struggling unit.

One of the characteristics of South Korean conglomerates has been the complex network of financing and loan arrangements among affiliates, which forced healthy companies to prop up the struggling units of the same business group.

The company attributed the loss mainly to a large write-down that it disclosed last month to account for the decline in value of two struggling units, America Online and Time Inc., the magazine division that publishes titles like Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune and People, and in Time Warner Cable, which the company is spinning off to shareholders.

The Fiat Group of Italy is considering choosing Herbert Demel, an Austrian executive who once ran the Brazilian unit of Volkswagen, to replace the chief executive of its struggling auto unit, according to a person close to the deliberations.

In early September, Microsoft agreed to buy Nokia's struggling cellphone unit for about $7.2 billion.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft named Qi Lu, a former Yahoo executive, to run its struggling Internet unit on Thursday.

Mr. Son, furious, turned to Plan B. In March 2006, SoftBank announced it would acquire Vodafone's struggling Japanese unit, borrowing 1.2 trillion yen $10.3 billionn at the time) to finance the purchase.

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The French company last year sold a 7 percent stake to General Motors, which has its own problems in Europe with its struggling Adam Opel unit.