1. The computer department is attached to the consumer products division. 2. Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance, and was well up too. 3. At Lucent, officials hope the venture will provide a strategy to revive its troubled consumer products division. 4. Because the new consumer product division has done so well so fast, Freston said, the pressure has been ratcheted up to keep that new revenue flow going. 5. Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, said its forest products division had formed a joint venture with Shenzhen Leasing, China, to produce carbonless paper in China. 6. Boston Scientific also consolidated its Medi-Tech division, which produces its vascular surgery and radiology products division to Watertown, Mass. 7. Both the household and commercial appliances divisions saw operating profit weaken in the quarter, while the outdoor products division was unchanged. 8. A more likely possibility, many analysts say, is that Microsoft might consider cloning Java, an approach already taken by a consumer products division of Hewlett-Packard. 9. But Pfizer executives said Monday they had no plans to try to sell the consumer products division. 10. Chapman succeeds Takashi Tsutsui, who will return to Japan from London to run the global investment banking products division. |