Production of different stages of processing of a product within the same firm.

  The combination within a firm or business enterprise of one or more stages of production or distribution. In the electric industry, it refers to the historical arrangement whereby a utility owns its [..]

A situation in which a company acquires one or more of the companies which are involved in the production or distribution processes of its goods/services, for example a brewer which buys [..]

An arrangement whereby the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling, and delivering a product or service. In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangeme [..]

Vertical integration describes the ownership or control by a firm of different stages of the production process, e.g., petroleum refining firms owning "downstream" the terminal storage and r [..]

Intégration verticale

The process by which a media company acquires another elsewhere in the production process.

1. (channels of distribution definition) The combination of two or more separate stages in the channel through ownership, including mergers or acquisitions. 2. (environments definition) The expansion of a business by acquiring or developing businesses engaged in earlier or later stages of marketing a product. In forward vertical integration, manufa [..]

The degree to which a firm has decided to directly produce multiple value-adding stages, from raw material to the sale of the product to the ultimate consumer. The more steps in the sequence, the grea [..]

ownership or control of different points of production, such as manufacturing and distribution.

Refer to Integration, Vertical

The situation in which a firm participates in more than one successive stage of the production or distribution process. For example a soft drink company that also controls a sugar-producing firm is sa [..]

when companies at different stages of the same industry merge or buy one another. E.g. oil companies now own the vast majority of petrol stations.

Definition The process in which several steps in the production and/or distribution of a product or service are controlled by a single company or entity, in order to increase that company's or en [..]

A structure in which functions are integrated into a large organization in a complex interdependent hierarchy. Contrast with vertical disintegration.

A system in which all or most sectors of a production process - from providing raw resources, or other inputs and manufacturing to marketing, and research and design - are integrated into a single lar [..]

Vertical integration is when two businesses at different stages of production join to form one bigger company.

a condition which a company controls everything needed to make a product.

A form of business organization that attempts to control the business environment by assuming control of one or more of its resources or business outlets.

The term vertical integration describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain prod [..]

An arrangement in which the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling and delivering a product or service.  In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangement in which a utility owns its own generating plants, transmission system, and distribution lines to provide all aspects of electric service.  See al [..]

Where one company controls all stages of production of a good, from the acquisition of raw materials to the retailing of the final product. OCI is a vertically integrated company.

A firm’s acquisition of the control of the different stages of the production process, from the earliest processing of raw materials to the distribution of the final products.

An arrangement whereby the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling, and delivering a product or service. In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangeme [..]

In truck design, having a single team design all components with the complete system in mind.

Having control and input during the full cycle of a good or service, from production through delivery. Vertically integrated utilities generate, transmit and deliver electric power and services.

the potential within an enterprise to incorporate all aspects of management, production, sales and distribution into their business operations. In theory, the greater the vertical integration, the les [..]

An important task of economic theory, and certainly the central question with which the economics of organization is concerned, is to explain the allocation ...

Modern economics takes a two-way approach to vertical integration. The theory of the firm approach focuses on how the unified control of successive production ...

An arrangement whereby the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling and delivering a product or service. In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangement whereby a utility would own its own generating plants, transmission system and distribution lines to provide all aspects of electric service.

take-over of small local companies by larger more powerful company, offering same types of services. (See horizontal integration

Refers to the condition in which a company produces raw material, transports it, refines or processes it, and markets the product, all as one integrated operation. Specifically, an oil company is said to be vertically integrated when it finds and produces oil and gas, transports it in its own pipelines, refines it, and markets its products under it [..]

The situation in which a firm participates in more than one successive stage of the production or distribution process. For example a soft drink company that also controls a sugar-producing firm is sa [..]

An arrangement whereby the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling, and delivering a product or service. In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangement whereby a utility would own its own generating plants, transmission system, and distribution lines to provide all aspects of electric service.

(economics) The integrating of successive stages in the production and marketing process under the ownership or control of a single management organization. * year=2005|author=Robert M. Grant|title [..]