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As for his goals for Leon Capital, De Leon is currently working to establish new beachheads for his industrial real estate business in Mexico and also plans to invest more heavily in his lending and insurance companies.
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Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
As a result, instead of building a better life for their constituents, the Axis members made their countries into Iranian beachheads in a shadow conflict with the United States and Israel.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Full circle: Kvamme's father Floyd — who helped form National Semiconductor's beachhead in Silicon Valley before later becoming a venture capitalist — got a Thanksgiving Day chuckle out of his VC son's semiconductor pursuit.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
If California was a beachhead for Japanese auto imports in the Sixties and Seventies, the Northeast was the landing point for European cars in the Fifties and Sixties.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
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Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
As a result, instead of building a better life for their constituents, the Axis members made their countries into Iranian beachheads in a shadow conflict with the United States and Israel.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Full circle: Kvamme's father Floyd — who helped form National Semiconductor's beachhead in Silicon Valley before later becoming a venture capitalist — got a Thanksgiving Day chuckle out of his VC son's semiconductor pursuit.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
If California was a beachhead for Japanese auto imports in the Sixties and Seventies, the Northeast was the landing point for European cars in the Fifties and Sixties.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Beachhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beachhead. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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