Sharp may shut remaining overseas TV plants: executive

Japan's money-losing consumer electronics maker Sharp Corp could shut its remaining overseas TV factories but still expects its TV operations to turn profitable next year, a company executive said on Thursday. Closing TV plants in China and Malaysia "could come up on the agenda as the company is considering various restructuring measures," Kenichi Kodani, head of Sharp's digital information appliance division, told reporters during a media tour of its TV plant in Tochigi, eastern Japan. Sharp so