In a spin: high-performance business units are being freed and floated, benefiting their parent companies and investors

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Australian companies can achieve higher returns on shareholders' funds through spinning off high-performing business units or divisions. Most of the spin-off companies have outperformed or matched the performance of their parent firms in terms of share price, thus benefiting the parent companies and investors.

Financial management, Management dynamics, Venture Analysis, Management, Evaluation, Finance, Stockholders, Business enterprises, Company business management, Return on investment, Company financing, Rate of return

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Steely resolve

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BHP steel on completing first year announced that it would change its name to BlueScope steel. Being a newly listed company, it has given investors many reasons to believe in management, one of them being its achievement of a maiden net profit of 452 million dollars.

Blast furnaces and steel mills, Organizational nomenclature, Steel industry, Names, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. BHP Steel, BlueScope Steel Ltd.

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The light flickers for utilities

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Australian utility stocks have been popular during the economic downtown. Economists predict that if the Iraq crisis is resolved and the economy rebounds, investors will move to growth stocks and utilities will fall out of favor.

Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Utilities Programs-Total Govt, Energy industries, Energy industry, Public utilities

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