From today's Wall Street Journal:
Max Toy resigned as the head of US operations at Commodore International
Ltd. after a year and a half at the job, apparently because of continuing
frustrations at the company over lackluster US results. Chairman Irving
Gould declined to elaborate on a news releas's single sentence about Mr.
Toy, which said he "resigned to pursue other itnerests." But Mr. Gould said
that "we still have a tremendous way to go in the US." Mr. Gould,
Commodore's major shareholder, called its US strategy sound, but said he
thought the execution had been weak. The company as a whole has been
progressing, he said. Mr. Gould has described himself as an impatient man,
and the personal computer maker has been a revolving door for senior
executives in the past few years as US operations have been slow to turn
around. Mr. Toy was succeded by Harold D. Copperman, formerly a marketing
executive with Apple Computer Inc…. ..