Horizontal integration is the merging or takeover of a company that is in the same market and at the same stage of the supply chain.
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merging of two or more companies, to carry a single business in which assets and liabilities of amalgameted company is taken over by amalgamatinng company.
A joint venture.
There's direct merging... when two companies combine as one unit. Then there's merging and subsidiary utilization. when one company immediately operates as a subsidiary of another.
Merging Cells
External growth refers to a company buying or merging with other companies in order to expand their business. There are numerous companies that do this to add more products to their company.
Delta is but one airline that has merged or in the process. In April 2011 Southwest is merging/taking over Air Tran; United and Continental are merging; KLM and Air France have already merged as have BMI/Lufthansa. This is a trend in the industry and Delta has been involved with its takeover of Northwest. The idea is to reduce costs and try and become competitive in an industry that has changed over the years with low-cost airlines taking an increasing market share.
You might be thinking of a merger - two or more companies merging into one; or it could be a group of companies working under same name, but staying as individual legal entities within the group.
You might be thinking of a merger - two or more companies merging into one; or it could be a group of companies working under same name, but staying as individual legal entities within the group.
Merging of two companies provides certain benefits of scale, because the support organization can be reduced. In addition, the two companies together also have combined intellectual properties, patents, production power and distributive network.