Burdened by debt from over-expansion, more than ten have filed for bankruptcy protection in the last two years.
But heady success and over-expansion in the 1980s and early 1990s, was followed by a seemingly unstoppable fall and a long struggle to survive.
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Much like the over-expansion of government-led infrastructure projects, KFC China will experience diminishing returns if it continues to expand into areas with lower spending power.
Foremost among Southwest's problems, accoriding to McAdoo, is over-expansion: the airline continues to swell its fleet at the rate of about 35 planes per year, even though it is losing money on many of its recently added routes.
As in other businesses, senior managers are paying the price for their over-zealous expansion.
Mexican gross domestic product grew 4.3% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2009, the first year-over-year expansion in more than a year.
Small-cap cyclicals get all the attention early in every economic expansion because year-over-year earnings comparisons look great coming off a depressed base.
Analysts have criticised Republic's fast-paced expansion over recent years, saying that TPG should have instead concentrated on boosting its profitability.
It will study the same kind of supernovae that led to the Nobel prize, in a bid to unravel the "expansion history" of the Universe - when its expansion increased and decreased over billions of years.
But most candidate countries are small, so expansion could push over-representation to absurd levels.
Mr Finnity previously blamed the failure of the business on a rapid expansion and the company over-reaching itself.
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The move follows a long-running battle between the company and its founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou over the airline's expansion.
However, aggressive domestic expansion could lead to over-saturation of target consumer markets.
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The AAR shareholders are satisfied that their concerns have been met over independence at TNK-BP, international expansion plans, and the chief executive position.
As far as the author is concerned, Mr Clinton epitomises woolly-headed liberalism and arrogant over-confidence in his attempts to put the expansion of democracy and the spread of market economics at the centre of foreign policy.
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Some fear that the euro zone's expansion by 12-16 countries over the next few years could paralyse monetary policymaking.
During the decades Visa was bank-owned, its six regional associations squabbled over international expansion and failed to make much headway.
Gross profit increased 69%, attributable to higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 350 basis points over the prior-year quarter to 51.8%, driven by printers and materials gross profit margin improvement.
As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade.
But over the past few years, the rapid expansion of low-cost Chinese manufacturers like Suntech, Yingli and Trina has sent the cost of conventional solar panels plummeting.
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Unlike Miss Greening, Mr McLoughlin - who was a transport minister under Lady Thatcher and Sir John Major - is said to have "no baggage" over Heathrow expansion.
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Retail sales rose 0.5% month-over-month, beating analysts calls for a 0.3% expansion, but still below the 1.1% reading from September.
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Target could see a number of easy year-over-year comparisons in 2013, after incurring costs related to an expansion into Canada this year.
The expansion of Europe over the last 10 years has seen the Brussels-based political union embark on the biggest recruitment drive in its history.
Technology and infrastructure expansion have led to bandwidth prices at record lows too, down over three-fold in the past five years.
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Despite clear indications of declining demand for home improvement products, the company continued with this expansion policy, leading to a stark decline in margins over the period 2009-11.
The Japanese government had less direct control over its corporations, but its officials co-ordinated their domestic development before earmarking sectors for overseas expansion.
But in 1994, when then-29-year-old Jonathan Grayer took over as CEO of the Kaplan unit, the test-prep company came down with an acute case of expansion fever.
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Consumer spending grew at over 6% a year in the first six months of 1998, the strongest two-quarter growth of this expansion.
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