| Through vertical integration the same stars are marketed to the public through music, films, television, and advertisements. |
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| Backward vertical integration minimizes the risks of interruption in the constant flow of crude oil to its refineries. |
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| Earlier discussions have established that forward vertical integration can have competitive as well as anticompetitive effects in a market. |
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| The idea that vertical integration increases monopoly power is highly suspect. |
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| Tyson says it's not aiming for the same kind of vertical integration in beef that it has in chicken. |
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| The great sugar entrepreneur also saw the profit to be made in vertical integration. |
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| Market share and vertical integration were seen as potential indicators of market power. |
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| A vertical agreement is to some extent a substitute for vertical integration. |
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| And Cendant's vertical integration of brokerage, settlement, and other services helps attract franchisees. |
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| There has been increased concentration and vertical integration in this industry. |
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| Maybe because most of us have lived with the twin forces of economic concentration and vertical integration we've been in a state of denial. |
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| Although Black Swan was itself vertically integrated, vertical integration had drawbacks. |
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| Their organizers aren't apologists for concentration or vertical integration. |
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| Less expensive technology makes vertical coordination better than vertical integration, Sonka said. |
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| What have you learned from that experience of almost total vertical integration? |
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| But however Acer evolves, Shih vows he won't return to vertical integration. |
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| They have total vertical integration and all of the costs savings that go with that in addition to economies of scale. |
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| There is strong empirical evidence to support the case for vertical integration. |
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| Finally, size of firm, vertical integration, diversification, and form of organization were found to be important direct influences. |
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| The direction of vertical integration, that is, forwards or backwards, depends on where the business is positioned in the supply chain. |
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| We could find no evidence that cost accounting was used to make decisions about the vertical integration of firms. |
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| There was an apparent lack of clear theoretical linkages between vertical integration and market power in the model tested here. |
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| Our high degree of vertical integration, coupled with optimum internal material flow, guarantees perfect, consistent production quality. |
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| The acquisition was a novel one for a cement company but set a trend in vertical integration that our competitors have followed. |
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| Through vertical integration, they are trying to protect their source of supply and their market while becoming more competitive. |
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| Most of the companies are trying to get to grips with costs by acquiring gravel and sand companies, resulting in a vertical integration. |
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| The transaction would mainly lead to the vertical integration of the brand owner and its bottler. |
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| However, the less doubt there is about horizontal integration, the more we should be questioning vertical integration. |
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| Consequently, Sioen's capacity increase is motivated by its vertical integration and the production will be used entirely within the group. |
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| For the same reasons, vertical integration arising from the operation would not raise competition concerns either. |
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| Does the shift to door-to-door transport services mean real vertical integration of the different modes of transport by a single operator? |
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| This distinction prompts some very strong reservations as to the actual vertical integration in the transport chain. |
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| A high degree of vertical integration and optimized internal material flow ensure perfect, consistent product quality. |
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| This led to a new vertical integration of generating and retail, and also stifled local involvement in generation. |
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| One of the Group's key strategies has always been the vertical integration of its activities. |
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| Furthermore, the transaction enhanced our vertical integration strategy in Spain, owing to the proximity of these assets with our cement plant. |
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| In this setting, coordination is achieved via vertical integration. |
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| These problems led them toward increasing vertical integration. |
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| The bill will look at horizontal and vertical integration of business. |
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| But vertical integration presents new business and competitive issues which today seem increasingly likely to require some future form of regulation. |
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| In the table egg sector, it is more common for the farm owners to also own the grading and egg packaging units and, as a result, total vertical integration is seen more often. |
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| Upstream vertical integration, such as to raw materials, is away from leading technology toward mature, low return industries. |
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| Most companies chose to focus on their core business rather than vertical integration. |
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| The company has a diversified fuel mix, and is continuing its vertical integration with mining operations in Siberia. |
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| Unite national officer Karen Reay stressed that the only way that vertical integration could work is if funds are ring-fenced. |
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| In Asda's case, especially, it must be losing money on these promotions due to their lack of vertical integration. |
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| On vertical integration in the Commission, two main points must be noted. |
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| Under the historic utility model of monopoly and vertical integration, environmental costs were passed on to ratepayers under cost-plus rate-making schemes. |
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| Phase two involves a vertical integration strategy with producers, but with another like-sized plant targeted for later 2007 into 2008 using canola as the main feedstock. |
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| We also do not necessarily have to have collusion in this industry, because there is a lack of competition with the vertical integration that has taken place. |
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| Concentration and vertical integration are a deadly combination. |
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| The Parties have argued that insofar as customers have the ability and the incentive to maintain a competitive supplier base they will not accept at any cost bundling practices or the effects of vertical integration. |
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| The minister has stated that it is his intention to legitimize the existing process and permit vertical integration within the groundfish industry. |
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| Now we're talking about vertical integration again. |
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| These factors are integrated using vertical integration. |
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| The reorganisation has been interpreted as a move back towards vertical integration of track and train operations. |
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| Richard Lyons said that he considered the spirit of the discussant's comment when banks buy dealers as vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration. |
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| The company will thereby double its production capacity and pursue its vertical integration strategy, in order to meet the growth in sales anticipated on U. S. and Ontario markets. |
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| Total vertical integration, in which the processor owns the production assets and the producer is a salaried employee, is still, in the countries studied, much less widespread. |
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| If Oracle and H. P. are offering a vertical integration, Box is trying to sell a horizontal integration of diverse software applications, which would provide customers more choice. |
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| In this paper I test the theory that internal capital markets are a motivation for both corporate diversification and vertical integration. |
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| Although very profitable, these shares are in the process of being sold off despite the powerful logic of vertical integration. Hugo Chavez's intention is to distance himself that bit more from Washington. |
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| This buyout would achieve the big biz haiku of total vertical integration. |
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| Vertical integration is a business practice that involves gaining complete control over a product's production, from raw materials to final assembly. |
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