🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

integrazione verticale

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in.te.ɡraˈt͡sjo.ne ver.tiˈka.le

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vertical integration/ˈvɜːr.tɪ.kəl ˌɪn.təˈɡreɪ.ʃən/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La strategia di integrazione verticale ha ridotto i costi."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.

    "The manufacturer pursued vertical integration to reduce supply chain costs and secure raw materials."
  2. 2

    A strategy where a firm expands its business operations into different steps on the same production path.

    "Their retail expansion represents a bold move toward complete vertical integration."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'vertical' (derived from Latin 'verticalis', meaning overhead or perpendicular, via Late Latin) and 'integration' (from Latin 'integratio', from 'integer', meaning whole or complete). It emerged in the mid-20th century within industrial economics and business strategy literature to describe the structural consolidation of successive stages of production within one firm.

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