The 'Ndrangheta, Italy's wealthiest Mafia group, "has diversified its activities like a multinational corporation," investing in 300 German pizzerias and assorted hotel chains in addition to running Europe's cocaine trade.
However, while farm A has diversified its activities to include social and environmental services, Farm B, instead, still focuses on traditional farming because its vicinity to a city makes it feasible to sell products directly to customers.
It is planning to use the proceeds to help diversify its activities and to invest in a copper mine in Peru.
The bank has continued to diversify its activities, funding scientific research in medicine and agriculture, supporting small businesses and rural development projects, and, in 1987, introducing its first credit card.
Foxconn's involvement is also interesting given how the firm has been diversifying its activities in recent years.
The small sugar elite in the Northeast has increased its power and protected itself against market instability by diversifying its activity, while the benefits have failed to trickle down to the poorest in the sugarcane zone in the Northeast coast.
By the early 21st century, Cuba had diversified its fishing activities to include aquaculture (sea bream, sea bass, tilapia, and carp).
However, with the decline in oil production and the global decrease in oil prices, the city has attempted to diversify its industrial and service activity economy.
Last December, the news site Al-Monitor reported that organ harvesting appears to be yet another way for the Islamic State to diversify the portfolio that fund its activities. .
In response to the disruption of their primary source of income, many criminal enterprises have diversified their activities to include kidnapping, people trafficking and forced prostitution.
As the drug cartels have diversified their activities to include extortion, money laundering and human trafficking, they have taken aim at Central and South Americans passing through Mexico on their way north.
