A manager close to retirement age expressed some sorrow that no buyouts had been offered to his marketing unit.

The marketing unit of the firm should focus on promotional campaigns and communicating reasons for potential customers to use the firm's services.

"Today, the international refining and marketing units are operating at a huge disadvantage" in those regions, he said.

Its refining and marketing unit earned $34 million, down from $39 million a year earlier.

The company said it increased both volume and margins at its refineries, which helped offset a loss in the marketing unit.

Critics call the Government operation a taxpayer-subsidized marketing unit of the nation's arms industry.

The enterprises are the university's production, processing and marketing units, where the students learn by doing.

Rather, the reductions came in customer service and marketing units.

She has been working in the marketing unit for over a year now.

The small floor plate and our self-contained marketing units complement each other very well.