🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

integrazione verticale

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

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vertical integration/ˈvɜːr.tɪ.kəl ˌɪn.tɪˈɡreɪ.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 the Latin-derived adjective 'vertical' (from Late Latin verticalis, from vertex) with 'integration' (from Latin integratio, from integrare 'to make whole'). It emerged in economic and business theory during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe industrial organizations that consolidate multiple successive stages of production under single ownership.

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