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vertical combination
noun
- the integration within one company of individual businesses working separately in related phases of the production and sale of a product.
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The Justice Department sued earlier this year to block AT&T Inc.’s planned purchase of Time Warner Inc., another so-called vertical combination of companies in different parts of a supply chain.
From Wall Street Journal
Critics who have said the deal will hurt consumers are “uniformed,” Stephenson said, arguing merging a distribution platform with an entertainment company is a classic vertical combination and won’t cause prices to rise.
From Time
Having reviewed scores of acquisitions for antitrust concerns over the last twenty years, I do not see a traditional merger-specific antitrust problem with the vertical combination of Google and Motorola.
From Forbes
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