101.   Jarvis focuses on Brazilian utilities, especially electric companies, staying away from consumer companies.

102.   Its earnings depend on robust advertising from retailers and consumer products companies.

103.   Kimberly-Clark sold the businesses as it exits the volatile pulp products business to become a consumer products company.

104.   Last June, Himmel bought the licensing rights to Breck shampoo from Dial Corp., the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based consumer products company.

105.   Lagardere last week was chosen by the French government to take over Thomson SA, the state-owned defense and consumer electronics company.

106.   Last Friday, Television Azteca, said consumer products company Unilever Plc would end its advertising links with Televisa and switch its ads to Azteca next year.

107.   Lately, however, the consumer companies have suffered from a weak euro, which has caused profits from European operations to suffer after being converted into American dollars.

108.   Like many other consumer products companies, Coors encourages its employees to use the products they make.

109.   Like other consumer Web companies, JuniorNet.com will be more carefully watching its money, Yetming says.

110.   Major consumer companies routinely spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on advertising and marketing.