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Strategic choices & advantage · Working

Horizontal integration

Also called: integrate horizontally

ELI5

Combining with a similar business in the same part of the market.

Used in conversation

“The merger is a horizontal integration play.”

Definition

Expansion through combination with or acquisition of businesses at the same stage of a value chain.

Here “Horizontal integration” means: Expansion through combination with or acquisition of businesses at the same stage of a value chain.

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.