expansion plans
Goals for enlargement
Expansion plans are a company's intentions or strategies for growth—opening new locations, entering new markets, or increasing production capacity.
The phrase appears constantly in business news and corporate communications: The retailer announced aggressive expansion plans for the Southeast.
Having expansion plans signals ambition and financial health; shelving them often signals trouble.
- growthIncrease in size
- growth strategyPlan for organizational scaling
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- scalingClimbing or resizing
- developmentProgress toward maturity
roadmap · ambition · blueprint · venture · acquisition · rollout · franchise · territory · market · market share · global reach · investment · new markets · headquarters · branches · brick and mortar · footprint · merger
- planningto-do lists, calendars, scheduling, prepare, concept
- strategic managementstrategic objectives, strategic management, corporate strategy, business strategy, mission
- airport planningsite selection, flight paths, land use, zoning
- library designshelving, stacks, reading rooms, circulation desk, reference desk
- trade secretstrade secret, secret recipe, proprietary blend, formula, chemical formula
expansion plansdownsizing
Reducing workforce or scale
shrinkage · cutbacks · retrenchment · scaling back · winding down
expansion plansexit strategy
Preplanned departure method
pullback · retreat · strategic retreat · abandonment · disengagement
expansion plansdissolution
Breaking up completely
bankruptcy proceedings · wind-up · cessation · mothballing · sunsetting
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