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vertical integration noun

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a process in business where a company buys another company that supplies it with goods or that buys goods from it in order to control all the processes of production

(Definition of vertical integration noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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