1.   Andrew Jaffe was named executive director of the Clio Awards, New York, a newly acquired unit of BPI Communications, part of VNU-USA.

2.   It also will sell Microsoft software through its newly acquired SHL Systemhouse unit.

3.   Some acquired units could be sold, but no such moves are being planned, he said.

4.   The company says it will initiate the layoffs because of overlap in many positions at its recently acquired Aldus unit.

5.   The four newly acquired units in Georgia bring the number of JFS holdings to eight.

6.   The increase in costs was much lower as the company kept the workforce nearly constant, not counting the newly acquired units, Krick said.

7.   Those Latin American profit figures did not include earnings from newly acquired units in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

8.   IBM said its newly acquired Lotus software unit also performed well.

9.   An alliance between Bell Atlantic, Nynex and MCI would make for a potent rival to ATT and its newly acquired wireless unit, McCaw Cellular Communications.