In the restructuring plan announced on Tuesday, Mr. Conaway said that unprofitable product lines would be liquidated and canceled.
He also wants to increase investment in mobile technology, to focus on rebuilding the company's television business, and said he would abandon unprofitable product lines.
Shared Trade has to consider the effect on the producer of cutting an unprofitable product order, but it also needs profits to make its social mission a reality.
The company said that under the restructuring plan, it would close unprofitable sales offices, combine residential and commercial sales offices, close the British-based tile Valley commercial tile plant and discontinue unprofitable product lines.
"I recommended to him that he fix it up, then sell it," said Mr. Cornstein, who bonded with Mr. Giuliani after deciding not to challenge him in a 1989 mayoral primary, "and he said, 'O.K., you run it.' " How fond has Mr. Cornstein become of the unprofitable product he was tapped to reinvent?
Now, as president of privately held Anchor Packaging in St . Louis Mo., Nemura is using ABC to eliminate unnecessary activities and unprofitable product lines.
