Hello, When we talk about businesses providing more services or different goods, can we use both? I usually see diversify. Examples: "The company has branched out into providing investment advice." "Farmers are encouraged to diversify into new crops." Here's my take which is probably wrong: When we branch out into something, we start making new things, but we don't stop making the old ones. With diversify, we stop making/producing/growing/etc something, in order to produce/grow/make/ something else.
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" Gillette didn't stop making razors, John Deere didn't stop making tractors, and TI didn't stop making calculators too large to fit in a pocket.
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" Gillette didn't stop making razors, John Deere didn't stop making tractors, and TI didn't stop making calculators too large to fit in a pocket.
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From a 1979 article in The Harvard Business Review: "Recent examples of corporate diversification include the entries of Gillette into manufacture of felt-tip pens, John Deere into snowmobiles, and Texas Instruments into pocket calculators."
Gillette didn't stop making razors, John Deere didn't stop making tractors, and TI didn't stop making calculators too large to fit in a pocke