Explore how mergers in vertical integration face antitrust barriers. Learn about key cases, factors impacting competition, ...

Lincoln Watase, CEO and President of Yum Yum Donut Shops, lists the different ways that vertical integration helps a business maximize their profit opportunities, control the quality of the supplies, ...

Vertical integration is the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers with the goal of increasing the company's power in the marketplace. There are three varieties ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2015 issue of strategy+business. “Owning the value chain” was a favorite strategy in the early part of last century. Companies sought advantage by ...

Real-life Vertical Integration Examples Apple’s Integration into Chip Manufacturing: Apple, originally relying on external suppliers for its device chips, moved towards vertical integration by ...

Vertical integration is the merging together of two businesses that are at different stages of production—for example, a food manufacturer and a chain of supermarkets. Merging in this way with ...

A vertically integrated business refers to a business that has expanded into different steps along production, manufacturing, and supply. In other words, a vertically integrated business controls some ...

When businesses give autonomy and power to each of their divisions and departments, the result is differentiation, in which each section develops its own cultures and methods. When a company brings ...