11.   Commodities are so weak that Citigroup may sell its commodity business, Phibro Inc.

12.   Companies also will have to offer security systems, appliance repair and cable services in what would otherwise be a commodity business vulnerable to price wars.

13.   CPC International Inc. said it will spin off its corn-refining operations, shedding a volatile commodity business to focus on its pantry of well-known food brands.

14.   CPC said Wednesday it will spin off the unit, shedding a volatile commodity business to focus on its pantry of well-know food brands.

15.   Commodity businesses have a lot of risk unless you are the low-cost producer.

16.   Deregulation has transformed telephony from a regulated utility business into a commodity business.

17.   GE Capital, for example, stopped financing mobile homes and appliances when such financing became a commodity business.

18.   He thinks that Digital is too dependent on low-margin commodity businesses, particularly in personal computers.

19.   His past Enron jobs include heading the European commodity merchant business, chief executive of global risk management and chief executive of Enron North America.

20.   In the book she chronicles the story of Starbucks, which managed to turn a commodity business, selling coffee, into something bigger.