Mills is quoted as saying that she intends it to be the first in a worldwide chain of vegan restaurants.

Or a worldwide chain of hotels?

The company is now just another worldwide chain, Ms. Wharton writes.

The team was owned by the Benetton family who run a worldwide chain of clothing stores of the same name.

Nicola Bulgari, the vice chairman of his family's worldwide chain of jewelry stores, bought it in 2001.

The estate hopes this will be the start of a worldwide chain.

It issued its first public share offering in 1976 and grew into a worldwide chain.

He soon began an after school club that would become the first of a now worldwide chain of soccer schools.

It certainly never developed into a worldwide chain as my crazed boss had envisioned - or even a second store.

Those innovations have occurred gradually since 1970, as executives coped with the challenges of expanding into a worldwide chain.