This will make it easier to separate their businesses, decide which are profitable and hive off the rest.
Banks would be required to hive off their swaps businesses, in order to reduce their exposure to potential losses.
Until Ofwat stopped it, Kelda, the Yorkshire water business, hoped to hive off its water assets into a consumer-owned mutual.
Let us have separate retail banks (dull, safe utilities where people can save and pay bills) and hive off the investment bankers.
It would hive off the gas and rail networks, apparently as a first step towards promoting genuine competition in both energy and transport.
Whether a Landesbank could hive off its domestic activities into a private venture and leave the public part an empty shell is questionable.
So the couple proceeded to hive off a slice of the rear section of the garden and used this space to build the home they really wanted.
Mr Prescott's favoured option was for London Underground to continue to run trains, but to hive off its network infrastructure on a long-term lease with ownership eventually reverting to the state.
HP's hyperactive Thursday, which saw it dump WebOS, buy the UK's Autonomy and announce plans to hive off its personal computing division will have been even less of a concern in Cupertino.
What has been brought to my attention is an interesting new way to hive off the 315 RBS branches, which the bank was on course to sell to Santander, before the UK arm of that Spanish giant dropped the deal.
The commission, to its credit, is pushing for the national champions to be broken up (see article), although it has given them an escape route: they can stay in one piece if they hive off the management of the grid to a third party.
This revelation, that it may have been almost impossible for UBS to spot Mr Adoboli's unauthorised dealings at an early stage, is expected to reinforce political pressure in Switzerland for UBS to hive off its investment bank (see my earlier post for more on this).
It may just be that the virus turns up in bees that are sick for other reasons, or that it is one of many triggers, potentially including pesticides or other pathogens, that can cause a whole hive to die off.
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