BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JANUARY 15, 2001 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS The New Strategy -- Appoint a new CEO for Acer's brand-name business -- Create separate contract-manufacturing division, to be spun off eventually -- Reduce emphasis on Internet investments, especially in business-to- consumer dot-coms -- Reimpose rule from the center, reversing some of the decentralization of 1998 -- Focus brand-name business on China and Southeast Asia rather than Europe and the Americas _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS For Acer, a Bad Year Turns Brutal (int'l edition) TABLE: The New Strategy INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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