Alcatel

"year. To reduce staff, Arnault is going to use the method that his predecessor had used: selling off loss-making activities to supposed industrialists with the air of bounty hunters, who will manage as they please. This method is as old as big industry itself. It is the one that will be followed by a group like Alcatel, which in July 2001 announced its intention to sell most of its factories to subcontractors. Its name: outsourcing. A way to free itself from factories, employees, layoffs, and, more generally, all problems. In the case of Boussac, unlike Alcatel, it is not only a matter of entrusting others with deficit activities internally and managing the necessary reduction of staff. It is then a matter of getting rid of activities and factories in a pre-planned plan whose ultimate goal is simply to exit the textile sector."

"In 2006, Newsweek wrote that although founder Ren Zhengfei has maintained a low profile, Huawei has stood on the same competitive line with international telecom giants such as Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, and Cisco Systems, and it often wins more network operation businesses from among them."