11.   This year three national papers carried special supplements to announce the successful companies, as did British Business magazine.

12.   Evidence from successful Japanese companies has suggested that production costs are often closely connected to management practices and operations, rather than the scale of operations within plants.

13.   He cited too a McKinsey report examining the common differential between the most and least successful companies.

14.   American courts do not much like breaking up successful companies, but when they do, the results are not always dire.

15.   Although the Czech Republic has been in recession for five consecutive quarters, Skoda has been consistently profitable and remains the most successful company in the country.

16.   American courts do not much like breaking up successful companies.

17.   Among his many ventures was a successful company in Shenzhen engaged in a range of activities, including textiles and property development.

18.   Analysts reckon that Skoda is the most successful former Communist company anywhere.

19.   And a few of those ideas, given time and money, turn into successful companies.

20.   And successful companies, he said, have probably revised their cultures as times have changed.