In 1978 Johnson Controls began to branch out, acquiring Globe-Union, a Wisconsin producer of automotive batteries.
Like many PC stalwarts, NVIDIA wants to branch into the fast-growing mobile devices market.
As I got older, I wanted to branch out and experiment with other instruments.
Telephone and internet-based providers, as alternatives to branch- based providers, remain niche players only.
It plans to branch out into power generation and services, particularly finance and banking.
Following the success of this venture, Discover is also looking to branch out into home equity loans.
If you're looking to branch out of your social network box, your best option may be Twitter.
Not that we really expected Microsoft to branch out and try the whole "let's make a phone!"
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Until now Singleton hasn't seen any financial reason to branch out of newspapers.
"I parked as close as I could to the branch and wheeled myself up to the branch, " he said.
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Hal wanted more, however, and decided to branch out on his own, planning the Holiday Inn without his father's help.
But, as some observers note, all of the extras will have to branch out from a very important home base.
The goal of Primesmith is to help various digital franchises to branch out to real world merchandising via quality jewelry.
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Stuart Wetherell, sales director at Wicksteed Leisure, said its construction firm wanted to branch out into new markets to maintain relevance.
If you recall, Synaptics is looking to branch out from touchscreens and touchpads and break into a another kind of navigation device: keyboards.
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Rather than sell one design or original piece at a time, she started to branch out to craft a wholesale line of jewelry.
Packaging disparate goods and cross-merchandising to make products more affordable communicate a desire to help and enable essentials-minded consumers to branch out, she added.
San Francisco, known for its hipsters and trendy tech startups, was the obvious place for CMB to branch out to next, said Co-founder Arum Kang.
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When it decided to branch out, healthcare was an obvious choice.
The Trust decided to branch out from its usual territory of measuring energy use and carbon footprints because there was not a global standard on water reduction, he added.
Eventually, both decided to branch out into the other's specialty.
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But as yet there is no smoking gun - a protein involved in regulating brain function, say - that may have caused our ape-like ancestors to branch off from chimps.
By laying these boundaries out very clearly a leader will help their employees operate more effectively while giving room for employees to branch out and experiment in a safe environment.
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And because of the credit crunch, banks have shrunk back from lending, making it harder to get loans to branch out, or finance your inventories, or maybe even to make payroll.
Mr Forlines shows no sign of cutting back on the 60-odd hours he works each week, much of it spent zipping from branch to branch in a Buick equipped with a radar detector.
But that won't be the last you'll see of Miles' unholy meshing of tech and apparel -- the artist also plans to branch out into gloves and handbags as part of the fuller O2 Recycle Collection.
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Human resource experts and career advisers seem to agree that while minorities especially tend to form bonds with people in an organization who share commonalities, not knowing how to branch out can be a major hindrance.
Some observers believe that while the channel may start in French, in the longer term it would have to branch out into English and Arabic if it were to be able to compete with other international players.
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