1.   Equifax said Insurance Information Services will complete the purchase of closely held Kroll after the insurance unit is spun off to shareholders later this year.

2.   Grace tried to quell a potential shareholder revolt last month by promising to add public members to the National Medical board once the unit is spun off.

3.   One bank owned an insurance operation that the other could not own for regulatory reasons, so that unit was spun off first.

4.   Options include selling the units, putting them into a joint venture with another company, or spinning the units off into a separate company.

5.   That unit was being spun off, he said.

6.   The Hughes defense unit was spun off to GM shareholders, then merged with Raytheon.

7.   The Hughes unit was spun off to GM shareholders, then merged with Raytheon.

8.   The unit will be spun off later this year.

9.   The units will be spun off as a single company to be headed by Campbell Executive Vice President Robert Bernstock.

10.   The units are then spun off to shareholders.