1.   The aim is to streamline the business, achieve higher productivity and lay the foundations for better operational results.

2.   Buffalo, New York-based Varity, headed by Chairman Victor Rice, has spent the past decade streamlining its business to concentrate on anti-lock brakes.

3.   Ebner said he expects UBS to streamline its businesses to boost profits.

4.   He started by streamlining the business to cut costs.

5.   He then streamlined his business and moved his office into his home.

6.   More recently, oil companies have streamlined business by merging subsidiaries and parent concerns into a unified structure with one stock.

7.   Miller recommends Melville, owner of the CVS and Kay-Bee chains, which is streamlining its business to concentrate on its profitable and growing drug products.

8.   Paradoxically, the initiative ended up making Chrysler more popular than any other auto maker with suppliers by forcing them to streamline their businesses and become more profitable.

9.   Redland said it would streamline other businesses in the months ahead starting in the U.S., where it wrote down the value of its weakening aggregates business, Genstar.

10.   Steve Bornstein, chairman of Disney Internet Group, said in a statement that the cuts were designed to streamline the business.