consumer lines

To a certain extent, other consumer lines suffered from neglect.

Usually, products are limited to consumer lines; it can also sell to direct end users.

This new appreciation of wood resources extends even to mass consumer lines like Workbench.

Nikon gives no details, but uses different designated processors in its professional and consumer lines.

All told, while operating profits in Kodak's consumer lines were down about 21 percent from a year earlier, sales stayed flat at $2.075 billion.

The expectation is the creation of three distinct units, splitting off the insurance business and dividing the others, perhaps along commercial and consumer lines.

Consumer lines, led by Listerine mouthwash and Schick shaving products, had stronger domestic sales in an improving American economy.

The computers sit above Dell's Inspiron and below the XPS consumer lines in price and specifications.

When American Cyanamid decided to get out of these consumer lines, Mr. Hiatt's job was to sell them off, dealing himself out of a job.

In the first quarter, it lost 285,000 primary consumer lines, compared with declines of 251,000 in the first quarter of last year and 331,000 in the fourth quarter.

SmithKline Beecham of Britain bought the Sterling Winthrop consumer lines from Eastman Kodak for $2.9 billion in August.

The American Cyanamid Company, the chemical and pharmaceutical concern that recently divested itself of consumer lines, named a new president yesterday and made two other top appointments to strengthen its management.

"It is much worse than it appears on the surface," said Abel G. Aganbegyan, an economist who conjured up a darkly depressed future that, he said, would make the long consumer lines of today seem like "a joke."

But at least one analyst, W. Alexander Henderson of Prudential Securities, says he has "heard indications from the field" that Kodak was poised to cut film prices by as much as 20 percent in some consumer lines.

In 1998 Corning divested itself of its consumer lines of CorningWare and Corelle tableware and Pyrex cookware selling them to World Kitchen, but still holds an interest of about 8%.

The challenge for Jaguar, Mercedes and Honda, companies that use Formula One as a platform to promote their consumer lines, is to penetrate beyond "the guys who are watching Speedvision at 3 a.m.," said Mr. Sproule.

Regarding the other lines, we do not have many concerns about the consumer lines where we see that the work is going on quite effectively, but I would draw the attention of the House and the Commission to the health programme and the health budget lines.

Investment Firm to Buy Corning Consumer Lines Corning, whose name has for decades been synonymous with Pyrex, Corning Ware and other household brands, said that it would sell a controlling interest in its consumer products operations as it focuses instead on high-technology businesses.

The company said that despite shrinking personal and corporate computing markets, it had continued to find strength in the sales of the new XP version of its Windows operating system, growth of its Office desktop software business and improved performance of a number of its consumer lines, including its MSN online service.