As a former student-athlete and a life-long sports enthusiast, I have always been enamored with competition. Merriam-Webster defines competition as "the effort of two or more parties acting ...

Supply chains are messy. Prices rise abruptly, products or raw materials become unavailable, shipping and transport are overloaded, and competing vendors struggle for customers. Integrating ...

Mark Messina is the CEO of Addverb USA, a company that solves complex fulfillment challenges through robotics and automation solutions. Vertical integration is a business strategy where the business ...

Companies that pursue a horizontal acquisition strategy take over or merge with companies in a similar market sector and at the same stage of production. The aim is to acquire additional products or ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

As 2015 comes to an end rapidly, the key question becomes what the next year will bring. Last year around this time, in my blog “The Next Big Shift In Verification”, I talked about software-driven ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The merger of two companies working in the same stage of the supply chain within the same or different industries. Horizontal integration can also refer to the expansion of a company into slightly ...