In May 2003, the proprietors diversified by building a luxury spa at the back of the manor house.
In 2013, adtech had started to take off as a big growth area, and so, with Shopping.com having diversified by building an ad network for third-party sites, eBay saw an opportunity to double down on that.
Mr. Chambers wants Cisco to diversify into building sophisticated networked systems with many parts.
You report that the defence firm Rolls-Royce has been lobbying for government funds to assist it to diversify into building nuclear reactors (Millions on offer to develop small nuclear plants, 4 December).
Options for adaptation include diversifying income, building formal and informal institutions, adjustments in livestock holdings and species, labour mobility and engagement in small irrigation schemes (Adger et al. 2005; Berhanu et al. 2007; Seo and Mendelsohn 2008; Moritz et al. 2009; Crane et al. 2011; Tsegaye et al. 2013).
Although one or more major grants can form the backbone of funding for their labs, they work to diversify income, building smaller research programs with funding from other agencies or creating a mixed portfolio of funding from public and private sources.
In recent years, Ping An has made a number of domestic acquisitions to diversify, aggressively building up its presence in the securities brokerage business, asset management and commercial banking, lowering its reliance on insurance to just over 60% of its profit.
Housing Associations will be hit particularly hard by the crunch, because many have diversified into building properties for sale and they will be caught up in steeply rising credit costs and a collapse in land and house prices.
The firm has diversified into building, leasing, management and finance.
Since then he has diversified into building materials.
