Toshiba sweetens breakup plan with higher returns, lower costs

But conglomerate fails to offer vision for long-term growth after split

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"We want to reach an optimal solution that all stakeholders and shareholders can agree to and accept," Toshiba CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa told a news conference. © Reuters

TAKAYUKI YAO, MASAYA SATO and YOICHIRO HIROI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Less than three months after announcing a plan to split itself into three companies, Toshiba has already reworked it in hopes of winning over wary investors. But the Japanese industrial conglomerate may have missed the mark again.

Toshiba said Monday that it would form two stand-alone companies, spinning off its devices and storage solutions business while keeping infrastructure services, which would have been split off under the proposal announced in November. It will also return 300 billion yen ($2.6 billion) to shareholders over two years -- triple its previous proposal.

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