Eventually, her operation would grow to sell over two million pounds of cheese per year.

Since the company's other two operations are growing, "earnings would go up if they shut it down," he said.

His operation grew and staff were employed to assist with research.

The operation in time grew to eighteen stores with 5,000 employees.

Since then, that operation alone has grown to 20,000 employees.

Over the course of the following years, this operation grew steadily.

The operation grew quickly in the next few months going from one team to three.

Its operations later grew to include the whole Brazilian territory.

Like computer memory, retail operations have grown so huge that a new term was needed.

By the time she resigned in August, her operation had grown into a $24 billion business.