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Vertical Integration

What Does Vertical Integration Mean?
When a company expands its business into areas that are at different points of the same production path.

Investopedia explains Vertical Integration
A car company that expands into tire manufacturing would be an example of vertical integration. A company such as this is often referred to as vertically integrated.

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