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• A plan was announced yesterday to demerge its North American operations.
• Merchant bankers proposed a demerger of the company into two separate businesses.
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The demerger of the restaurant from the hotel business will create two focused companies each with very exciting prospects.
For example, in 2001, British Telecom conducted a de-merger of its mobile phone operations, BT Wireless, in an attempt to boost the performance of its stock. British Telecom took this action because it was struggling under high debt levels from the wireless venture. Another example would be a utility that separates its business into two components: one to manage the utility's infrastructure assets and another to manage the delivery of energy to consumers.
a demerger of a company — разъединение компании