But they are similar companies when it comes to their non-core business.
The kiosks are RadioShack's only source of revenue growth these days, but it's a non-core business that still provides little return on investment.
The head of the bank has been under pressure to revive the struggling bank and increase capital by increasing earnings, selling off non-core business units and cutting costs.
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If they can, they should be divesting non-core business lines.
The company embarked on a plan to shed assets, sell non-core pieces of the business and take in joint-venture partners.
Besides the implementation of huge cost-cutting measures, the changes include plans to sell off non-core and strategically redundant business units.
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We are also taking steps to divest certain non-core assets such as a smaller business in Italy.
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Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
This might be its last major asset sale as it been selling off its non-core divisions to focus more on its main business offering.
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Finally, Barrick is looking for a buyer for its energy business to get rid of non-core assets with short lives and high operating costs.
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But as long as the House of Windsor plc remains in the head-of-state business, it has to keep an eye on its core competence: being born, being non-political, and simply being there.
It is a very stable and growing business, as the trend toward outsourcing non-core functions continues.
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Other drug companies have been shedding "non-core" divisions lately--but none have shed a business this big.
The bank has been trying to turn its business around by cutting costs and shedding non-core businesses.
However, in order to provide a complete picture of our recurring core business operating results, we exclude from non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS the tax effects associated with SBC.
The company posted non-GAAP profits of 27 cents a share, including 21 cents from the core ON Semi business, and 6 cents from Sanyo Semi.
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Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our "recurring core business operating results, " meaning our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, such as SBC, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature.
As we have said before, owning real estate is not part of Nokia's core business and when good opportunities arise we are willing to exit these types of non-core assets.
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Siemens, under Chief Executive Peter Loscher, has said it will focus on energy, industry and health care, yet, the company is still wrestling with non-core and, in some cases, underperforming businesses like its telecommunications joint venture with Nokia and its Osram lighting business.
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