Sentences with phrase «vertical integration in»

«The additions of NAPP and NLPP give our company vertical integration in the premium, high quality pet treat space.

They are bound by a tight vertical integration in separate stacks (the Kindle stack, Adobe stack, Readium SDK stack).

It's classic food politics spawned from vertical integration in big ag.

Astarta's high level of vertical integration in industrial cattle farming, own forage supply, as well as accumulated experience of industrial livestock -LSB-...]

[339] The grocery industry is characterised by a high degree of vertical integration in the distribution supply chain.

In light of that fact, and the significant degree of vertical integration in the supply of groceries, it was open to the primary judge to view the appropriate market, for the purposes of determining the s 50 (1) question before him, as one incorporating the activities of the self - supplying chains.

[para 301] The primary judge further found (at [339]- [341]-RRB- that the grocery industry was characterised by a high degree of vertical integration in the distribution supply chain.

It won't be easy as the two supermarket chains are unable to agree on appropriate mechanisms to address their growing vertical integration in a market where they control an unparalleled 70 per cent - plus of the nation's grocery shelf space.

Experts have anticipated more deals and vertical integration in wake of CVS announcing its intention to buy Aetna.

It lacks vertical integration in subsea drilling but otherwise has the global scale needed to compete, industry analysts said.

Not exact matches

My adventures in vertical integration fell apart with staffing.

For Harry's, vertical integration was driven by one crucial factor: There are only a few manufacturers in the world that can make what it sells — high - end razor blades — at scale.

It also rubber - stamped Shaw's acquisition of Canwest last year and launched a hearing into the effects of such vertical integration, which apparently resulted in Wednesday's ruling.

«I am really convinced,» he said on a recent earnings call, «that vertical integration is a necessity for this market to control the costs in the health care arena.

This so - called «vertical integration» requires entrepreneurs to «marry a large - scale agricultural business to a small retail location,» says Gehring, who owns Patients Choice of Colorado, a company which operates four dispensaries in the state.

«By and large they are in separate places in the value chain, so it's more of a vertical integration,» said Winkler.

In the wake of failed health insurance mergers earlier this year, some of its competitors are now eyeing the UnitedHealth model of vertical integration.

132 In other words, Bork's take was that vertical integration generally would not create forms of market power that firms could use to hike prices or constrain output.

109 For most of the last century, enforcers reviewed vertical integration under the same standards as horizontal mergers, as set out in the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

In the rare case that vertical integration did create this form of market power, he believed that it would be disciplined by actual or potential entry by competitors.133 In light of this, antitrust law's aversion to vertical arrangements was, Bork argued, irrational.

In addition to addressing some of healthcare's most pressing challenges, CVS Heath's activities highlight how vertical integration is securing its market position and demonstrates how this strategy could be threatening to payers.

The KPMG report warned about the potential reputational risks that may arise given the focus on so - called «vertical integration» models in which wealth advisers sell associated products to their investors.

The AT&T / Time Warner deal is a new form of vertical integration between content and delivery providers, but this is horizontal integration to allow real competition in the wireless market.

But there's the inevitable downside of all that vertical integration: When one company controls so many links in the chain, it also has the ability to set prices however it wants.

With strong ties to many leading energy companies in Europe and the Middle East, Envion enables energy producers to succeed in creating a sustainable advantage through downstream vertical integration.

But legal experts have already begun to weigh in on the coming legal battle, and there seems to be a consensus that it might be tougher for the Justice Department to lobby against this vertical integration, because blocked mergers in the past have typically been among direct competitors.

This could be a great thing — the vertical integration can help reduce costs, increase maintenance efficiency, and provide opportunities for new growth in research and development of hydraulic pumping technology.

Today we are announcing that we have brought gem polishing back to America with techniques that combine state - of - the - art automation and good old - fashioned hand finishing — thereby achieving complete vertical integration of gem diamond creation in one single facility in California.

This consolidation in the lithium industry is set to be the next investment theme as a vertical integration strategy offers the most opportunity and allows a hedge against commodity cycles and macro volatility.

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

«In many cases we have made vertical integration efforts to maintain competitiveness,» Vallejo notes.

Also based in Argentina, this 400 - acre orchard benefits from vertical integration that allows it to grow, harvest, package and globally distribute fresh and frozen berries.

The vertical integration affords this woman - owned company a non-bureaucratic environment in which its R&D department can respond quickly to clients with a variety of flavor and fragrance solutions, of which lemons are often vital.

The other reason, Glueck notes, is the same reason CF is able to accommodate short - notice requests in the first place — vertical integration.

In this context Herba Ingredients proud itself, able to offer a complete vertical integration package to the infant nutrition & organic food industry.

Debney has growth plans for just about each of the five pillars, including upgrades to berries infrastructure, the avocado vertical integration, a $ 65 million expansion of its biggest mushroom farm in South Australia and existing growth projects in China and Morocco.

Thanks to a complete vertical integration of the supply chain, GNT can offer year - round availability and best - cost - in - use of its EXBERRY ® concentrates.

Our vertical integration, starting with our own milk pool, in combination with our leading technological developments, has earned us a portfolio of the finest dairy flavours achievable.

Throughout the following decade, Niagara's significant developments in vertical integration, innovative bottle design and high speed manufacturing positioned the company as the industry leading private label bottled water supplier in the Western United States.

Mr Meares said the purchase of the well managed and developed property was a further example of vertical integration of breeding and fattening enterprises in the cattle industry.

Our fishing fleet will also double in size from four to nine vessels significantly improving our vertical integration and strategic access to tuna raw material.»

METTLER TOLEDO Safeline T and ST Series (Throat) vertical metal detectors are designed for integration with vertical form, fill, and seal (VFFS) processes to inspect free - falling product in - flight.

Among other benefits for the district attorney offices across the city, the funding will provide Bronx County with a vertical integration system which proposes delegating every stage of the prosecution to a single assistant district attorney in order to eliminate delays and backlogs in trial cases, a Rikers Island prosecution bureau and a Conviction Integrity Unit to review past convictions and ensure the fairness of tried cases.

Saratoga Partnership President Marty Vanags and Director of Business Retention & Expansion Shelby Schneider are meeting one - on - one with executives from companies across the microelectronics supply chain, including manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers, and in new vertical markets such as flexible hybrid electronics, system integration and the Internet of Things.

Instead of the current vertical integration, with physicians positioned at the top, we need to look at organizing anesthesia services in a more horizontal, collaborative reporting structure, Massie says.

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«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

And, in a demonstration of vertical integration not seen around here since the days of Henry Ford, Gilbert co-founded a real estate company, called Bedrock, to develop places for these people to live, eat, shop, and park.

Whether or not that's the case, industry analysts have turned decidedly bullish on Mazda and not just because of the forex markets, but also because the auto maker apparently has made good on promises to cut costs in platform development through vertical, or top - down, integration of its model lineup.

Also standard are a single 10W USB jack (enough power to charge tablets as well as phones), Bluetooth, the new NissanConnect smartphone integration (more below), a 5 - inch center stack display, and a vertical 5 - inch color multi-information display (MID) in the instrument cluster.