Discover when outsourcing beats vertical integration in reducing costs and boosting efficiency. Learn which strategy aligns ...

Since its modest beginnings in a California garage in 1976, Apple Inc. has aimed to “Think Different” not only about its products but about something equally important: its supply chain. While ...

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, ...

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 ...

Most companies focus on one part of the supply chain. For example, a manufacturer might focus exclusively on producing goods, and a retail store might focus exclusively on selling goods that someone ...

There is a creeping vertical integration in North American truck manufacturing. The model is changing from assembly of a wide diversity of components to a more structured and integrated whole, where ...

The Federal Trade Commission is currently completing its review of a proposed merger between defense contractor Lockheed Martin LMT and Aerojet AJRD Rocketdyne. Aerojet is a relatively small company ...

Successful businesses are always looking for ways to expand and increase their power in the marketplace, and one strategy that will help you get there is vertical integration. When a company is ...

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 ...

This writing is in response to the article recently written by SA contributor Ashraf Eassa titled Samsung is Apple's Worst Nightmare. In the article Ashraf argues that Apple (AAPL) should suspend ...