In business, horizontal integration is a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike - either complementary or competitive. One example would be when a company acquires competitors in the same industry doing the same stage of production for the creation of a monopoly. Another example is the management ...
The widening of a business by widening its operations at the same point in the supply chain...more on Horizontal integration
Production of different varieties of the same product, or different products at the same level of processing, within a single firm. This may, but need not, take place in subsidiaries in different countries.
Two companies merge in the same industry and at the same stage of production;
Also known as job rotation, it is a job enlargement method whereby employees are shifted between var
[n] - absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level
horizontal combination noun absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level