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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vertical integration is hot as companies look to combine hardware and software (Oracle and Sun) as well raw materials and manufacturing (steelmaker Arcelor) and other PepsiCo (beverages and ...

Firms are taking control of the entire value chain to benefit from scale, reduced costs, agility and greater opportunities for innovation, but robust processes and compliance are crucial to success ...

When startups launch, growth goals often center on customer acquisition. The logic is that once you’ve made your product or service indispensable to people’s lives, you’ll have breathing room to ...

Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) across administrations have promoted the policy goal of driving all of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid patients into risk-based ...

In the last 4 years, the three biggest pharmacy benefit managers have consolidated influence in the U.S. health care marketplace through vertical integration with insurance carriers. These ...

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 ...