The move follows an aggressive expansion drive by Minoan, which has acquired three Scottish travel firms recently.
This is clearly a high risk, high reward business right now due to their aggressive expansion into deepwater drilling.
In Latin America, the aggressive expansion continued and the company ended the year with 10.3 million subscribers (excluding Sky Mexico).
The company, a subsidiary of US food giant Yum Brands, said the "aggressive expansion plan" would create up to 2, 000 jobs.
The takeover, as well as the bank's "aggressive expansion" into investment banking, was singled out by the FSA as a bad call.
Looking to the third quarter, we remain focused on maintaining a healthy cash position while continuing aggressive expansion into key growth markets.
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The aggressive expansion is attracting U.S. filmmakers who want to tap the fast-growing market with China-friendly themes that make government censors happy.
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Now in its 10th year anniversary, PopCap has aggressive expansion in mind.
Owing to aggressive expansion by the likes of the Hyatt and Starwood, travelers to China increasingly have few troubles finding five-star hotels in the country.
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The supermarkets have been quick to reject suggestions that their aggressive expansion and price discounting are to blame for some of our boarded-up market towns.
Even in a picture-crazy culture, Oshima's aggressive expansion isn't without risks.
It was hit hard by its aggressive expansion but did eventually find new investors in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, of Saudi Arabia, and Singaporean property magnate Ong Beng Seng.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (nyse: RCL - news - people) is the second-largest cruise line in the world, a position it attained through aggressive expansion and acquisitions.
Hulu does have more good news in Japan though, now that it works on more devices with the Wii coming soon and "aggressive expansion" planned for the rest of 2012.
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But an aggressive expansion plan has since backfired and it has scaled back parts of its business, including selling its Jetsetter travel business to TripAdvisor for an undisclosed sum in April.
But with Branson stepping on Murdoch's toes with an aggressive expansion into the media marketplace, the Australian-born tycoon looks ready for a fight -- which only one of them can win.
The aggressive expansion means that Fab has to push out its previous target of turning a profit in its U.S. business this year, with European operations going into the black in 2014.
Santander will spend the bulk of the money on an aggressive expansion of branches and ATMs in the richer south and south-east of the country, which accounts for some 75% of national output.
JPMorgan, which bought Bank One last year, is already among the biggest in custody and securities processing, but it has been eclipsed in recent years by the aggressive expansion activities of Bank of New York and State Street .
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Starbucks has aggressive expansion plans lined up.
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But now Conservatory Lab is facing dwindling union interest among its teachers and growing frustration over its affiliation with the federation, which frequently attacks the academic accomplishments of charter schools and last year tried unsuccessfully to block an aggressive expansion of these schools.
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Aggressive expansion is coming.
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JPMorgan, which bought Bank One last year, is already among the biggest in custody and securities processing, but it has been eclipsed in recent years by the aggressive expansion activities of Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people ) and State Street (nyse: STT - news - people ).
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Vikram Pandit , Citigroup's (nyse: C - news - people ) new chief executive, is calling these "non-core" or "legacy" assets, and it's easy to conclude that he means all of the junk accumulated over the last few years of aggressive expansion into leveraged lending and structured finance at the direction of his predecessor, Charles Prince .
With the money, the company plans to get more aggressive with expansion into foreign markets.
Carmike Cinemas has embarked on the most aggressive digital expansion of any of the theater chains.
However, aggressive domestic expansion could lead to over-saturation of target consumer markets.
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Carmike Cinemas ( CKEC - news - people ) has embarked on the most aggressive digital expansion of any of the theater chains.
Starbucks Corporation announced its Q4 and fiscal 2012 earnings as strong same store sales growth combined with aggressive global expansion helped the company post strong results.
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The company has followed a policy of aggressive store expansion with the number of stores increasing from around 1, 300 in 2007 to more than 1, 700 in 2011.
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