51.   In August, the company plans to spin off its consumer appliance rental business in a transaction that will split its Thorn and EMI Group Plc music recording business.

52.   In buying Technicolor, Thomson would expand its traditional consumer electronics business into support services for the media industry.

53.   In looking to reorganize its business, Montgomery Ward wants to focus on its flagship department stores and department store merchandise and get out of the consumer electronics business.

54.   In the consumer business, Fisk Johnson faces his own formidable set of challenges.

55.   In the consumer electronics business, a gaping gender divide exists.

56.   In the meantime, with investors paying for growth businesses, Sprint could choose to spin off its slow-growth consumer long-distance business.

57.   Instead, banks are focusing on their consumer businesses, which are less volatile.

58.   Intuit said its overall growth rate was tempered by declines in the consumer software business.

59.   It also provides instant, inexpensive expertise in a consumer business where the race is always to the swift.

60.   It also will face unprecedented competition in its consumer long-distance business from the deep-pocketed Baby Bells within a year.