It refers not to the French motorway running east from Marseille, but the eight poor countries from Eastern Europe who joined the EU in the largest single expansion since its creation in 1957.
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Focusing on a single market endangers future expansion because other businesses can lock down neighboring markets before you get there.
The beauty of a REIT for a prospective tenant like Misako is that it can do one-stop shopping for a nationwide expansion by visiting a single trust with 137 malls.
Similarly, risk concentrations that might be acceptable at a single institution in a period of economic expansion could be dangerous if they existed at a large number of institutions simultaneously.
The fashion for quality, limited-edition whiskey started in Britain in the 1980s with the rapid expansion in the availability of single-malt Scotches, high-end whiskies made by individual distilleries in Scotland, using only malted barley (see: " Super Single Malts").
According to the pressure group Greenpeace, expansion of the cattle industry in the Amazon is the single biggest cause of deforestation in the region.
The expansion has been supported by the Welsh Assembly Government's Single Investment Fund.
Weakness struck the country's biggest growth engines, with expansion in manufacturing, construction and agriculture all in the low single digits.
World of Warcraft (WoW) has helped ATVI maintain its stock price, with this one single game providing roughly 30% of the revenue for the entire company via its expansion packs and monthly payments.
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Facebook Inc. (FB) will start on an expansion to its Menlo Park, California, headquarters that would add a single-story building designed by Frank Gehry with about 430, 000 square feet, or enough for about 2, 800 engineers.
At the same time, TUI said it would combine its airlines into a single brand called TUIfly.com, and unveiled plans for a internet flight portal, an expansion of its hotel business.
Its recent expansion of X1 digital platform that combines the TV viewing, recording and on-demand experience within a single platform is an example of the same.
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