The Financial Services Council (FSC) has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s (PC’s) finding that vertical integration is “not a problem in and of itself” but has urged consideration be given to ...

Once upon a time, there were three big truck engine makers in the U.S.: Caterpillar, Cummins, and Detroit. A couple of truck makers, like Mack and Volvo, offered their own engines. You ordered a truck ...

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 ...

For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...

Apart from passing the Karman line and reaching outer space, there are few boasts in the U.S. space sector prouder than “my company is vertically integrated.” Vertical integration—the practice of ...