In business, the sale of an asset; the opposite of an investment. Geographical analyses of divestment focus on: the conduits through which surplus or excess effects are discarded; the practices of divestment; disinvestment as practice; and the connections between divestment practices. Gregson et al. (2007) TIBG 32, 2 show how surplus/excess things are routinely divested through specific conduits; throwing something out is actually throwing it in to another location—a bin, a skip, a charity shop. In international business, divestment is the closure or sell-off of units in foreign locations, or, conversely, units owned by foreign firms (Benito (2004) J. Econ. Geog. 5, 2, 235).