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Sunday Spinoff Odds & Ends: ABB’s Robot Reversal, Coty Weighs Spinoff, Comcast’s Versant Loan

Another week, another mix of spinoffs, near-spinoffs, and spin-offs-that-weren’t. Here’s what caught our eye this week. ABB’s Robot Spinoff Becomes a $38 Billion Sale to SoftBank ABB Ltd.(ABBNY) had been widely expected to spin off its robotics division — a move long anticipated by investors as the final step in ABB’s multi-year simplification effort. Instead, the Swiss industrial… Read More »

Comcast Will Announce Spinoff Of NBCU Cable Networks Imminently, WSJ Reports

Comcast(CMCSA), the second largest cable tv company by subscribers in the US will be announcing the spin off of its NBCU cable networks as soon as tomorrow, the WSJ reports. We believe this to be Comcast’s first spinoff, though much of its footprint came from AT&T(T) spinoff AT&T Broadband. AT&T Broadband was itself a combination of MediaOne(a spinoff… Read More »