61.   Consumer non-durable companies such as Coca-Cola and Gillette Co., utilities and some financial companies appear strong.

62.   Consumer products companies face a different problem.

63.   Consumer products companies have stable earnings even when the economy is slow.

64.   Department stores and consumer products companies may also increase their advertising spending, which Televisa needs to post higher profits.

65.   Dunkin Donuts is following a trend among consumer products company to focus on consumers themselves, rather than the products being sold.

66.   Espinola, a salesman for Equinox International, an Amway-like consumer products company, has declined comment, saying he feared retaliation from the government.

67.   Expectations that the economy would grow at a slow pace prompted the exodus to consumer product companies, money managers said.

68.   For the computer industry itself, consumer electronics companies are already becoming the largest investors in financing research and development in advanced information technology.

69.   For several years, Trinity Ventures Ltd. has quietly invested in all manner of consumer retail companies, hitting one success after another.

70.   For those managers and workers who will stay with the consumer products company, being sold to a financial investor might be seen as a mixed blessing.