GodalmingYellow wrote:Vertical integration means several companies, each providing different but usually somehow related products/services, all under common control. So for example the merger of Currys and PC World, or in a slightly more diverse sense, the Virgin Group.Radley Rambler wrote:I've done an MBA (don't you know) and so business bollocks-speak has been installed in me. I still have no idea though what that statement means........neilw wrote:"The company is strategically positioned to implement their vertical integration model incorporating all their divisions" ...... and there was naive me thinking that they were merely a local team of part timers struggling to win a game .
Part of me wants the circus down the hill to go badly wrong but not to affect City - not sure the two aspirations are mutually exclusive though.
Horizontal integration is when the companies all provide the same type of products/service. For example, when Morrisons took over Safeway.
Wrong! As the other dude says further on - but I'll say it in English, it's when the supplier owns the distributor.
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