Sentence examples for unprofitable units from inspiring English sources

Hitachi has got rid of unprofitable units to focus on sectors like railways and infrastructure, and last autumn it severed the link between length of service and wages.

Ethos Foundation, a shareholder advocacy group, had called on shareholders to reject the compensation report because the bank continued to pay bonuses to managers of unprofitable units.

With profitability as the criterion of success, the outlet population is shrinking as companies close unprofitable units and withdraw from entire geographical areas.

The Gores (pronounced GORE-is) brothers, whose Greek family moved to the United States from Israel when they were children, pursue different acquisition strategies, though both of their companies focus on buying unprofitable units of large corporations.

The positive data was seen as a result of the group's restructuring program, which included job cuts and the sale of unprofitable units and stakes to focus on Henkel's consumer products.

After absorbing two years of losses, Gleacher's chief executive, Tom Hughes, has tried to turn around the business by shuttering unprofitable units, slashing its work force and overhauling management.

In 1978, he sold the business, but kept an unprofitable unit, CoffeeMat.

But Mr. Druffner's lawyer, Daniel M. Rabinovitz, said his client worked with the knowledge of his superiors at Prudential to reduce losses as the unprofitable unit sought to merge with the brokerage unit of the Wachovia Corporation.

Excitement about 4K TV sets – which Sony has touted as central to reviving that unprofitable unit – will weaken as eventually most TVs offer that quality, says Mr Goyal of Jefferies.

The News Corporation, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, had been trying since last winter to rid itself of the unprofitable unit, which was a casualty of changing tastes and may be a cautionary tale for social companies like Zynga and LinkedIn that are currently enjoying sky-high valuations.

The deal could keep Renesas, the world's biggest maker of microcontroller chips, afloat for the next few years, but analysts said that despite job cuts and planned plant shutdowns, Renesas still faced many challenges, including the restructuring of the unprofitable unit that makes system chips.