There's lot of extra space in the building now, but if Hamm really does manage to triple the size of Continental in five years, it would be about the size that Devon is now.

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The U.K. market is nearly twice the size of Continental Europe, now at 17.1% compared to 15.2% a year ago.

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Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.

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The latest example of this is the Africa Cup of Nations, Africa's continental soccer tournament, which is being held in Equatorial Guinea (population 668, 000 roughly the size of Memphis, Tenn.) and Gabon (1.6 million).

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