It would also fit the "shrink to grow" strategy BP has announced.
BP's Russian maneuver was the largest to date in Mr. Dudley's "shrink to grow" strategy, put in place after the costly 2010 gulf spill.
For BP, the sale comes as the biggest step yet in Mr. Dudley's "shrink to grow" strategy in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Farm diversification is a growing strategy for economic competitiveness, especially throughout the industrialized temperate zone, and agroforestry offers great promise for the sustainable production of specialty nut and fruit crops, high-value medicinals, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, goats, and biomass for biofuel.
"To us the 'disintegration' approach essentially represents a repudiation of the 'buy and grow' strategy that management has espoused since its creation nine years ago," analysts at Societe Generale wrote in a note on Thursday, maintaining a hold rating on the stock.
Baked goods have been found to have such positive associations for Americans that some businesses, using a growing strategy known as aroma marketing, pump the scent of chocolate chip cookies or other pleasant odors through their establishments to create happy feelings that they hope will lead to spending.
For the segmentation, it employs a simplified region growing strategy [31] which aggregates pixels with similar characteristics to a cluster or region.
Then, the SVM learning step is performed on small but well-targeted areas thanks to a semi-automatic region growing strategy.
That was the point, they knew there was something to feed off, they were feeding off it – the "march and grow" strategy of Oswald Moseley in the 1930s.
At a time when Americans are watching every dollar they spend, the limited-time offerings also are part of a growing strategy by retailers to spur impulse buys by creating a sense of urgency for shoppers to buy.
