Learn more about backward integration in the supply chain and see how two famous examples, Carnegie Steel and Apple, used ...
The goal of vertical integration is typically to increase sales, eliminate costs, and improve profits by improving business operations. Backward vertical integration can reduce or eliminate the ...
Garvin, David A., and Sunru Yong. "Bergerac Systems: The Challenge of Backward Integration (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-382, December 2011.
"We want to expand our activities to include control of the direct distribution of our products by getting into such backward integration in order to reduce dependency and to combat scarcity of fresh ...