American Apparel is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and retailer of branded fashion and basic apparel.
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Henry Ford changed the operating model of enterprises everywhere with his vertically integrated factories.
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The company has vertically integrated operations and owns substantial midstream, compression, drilling and oilfield service assets.
Vertically integrated electronics firms will continue to off-load the production process (see Ghost cars, ghost brands).
We also shut down a mistaken plan to become a vertically integrated manufacturer of our DigitalOptics camera technology.
In addition to owning content, Google also is trying to become "vertically integrated" in terms of mobile devices.
In my last post, I wrote about the pricing models and challenges facing specialty and vertically integrated retailers.
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The vertically integrated business model was hugely successful for decades and helped to boost the quality of drugs.
"As a vertically integrated company, we have the ability to more carefully manage price reductions over time, " she says.
The large, vertically integrated, hierarchical organization is one that has persisted throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Petrobras is a vertically integrated oil company, participating in exploration, production, refining and retailing of crude oil and gas.
The group is vertically integrated and manufactures mainly in Italy, which it claims has not been a problem so far.
Compared to Department Stores and Brands, Specialty (and Vertically Integrated) Retailers have the most control when it comes to pricing.
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Whereas the 20th century was one in which vertically integrated companies were powerful, the 21st is the century of virtual companies.
We do this advisedly, being cognizant that SunPower offers a number of appealing features, including proprietary cell IP and vertically integrated capabilities.
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"It's vertically integrated, from farm to fork, " says Mike Martin of Cargill.
Google's acquisition also illustrates the second difference between the markets for PCs and mobile devices: the latter will be more vertically integrated.
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We are a vertically integrated company, from manufacturing to retailing to logistics.
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But the studios have long since ceased to be vertically integrated behemoths.
In the beginning of most industries, the leading providers tend to be vertically integrated and offer products and services with proprietary, interdependent architectures.
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Its complex is more vertically integrated than most U.S. factories--stamping body panels and building engines and transmissions, along with cars, all on one site.
At the outset, vertically integrated players like Apple rose to dominance.
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The blueprint is already established: In 1992, Congress amended the Cable Act to protect independent cable networks against discrimination by vertically integrated cable operators.
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Rosneft is buying TNK- BP, which is a vertically integrated oil company co-owned by British oil firm BP and a group of Russian billionaires known as AAR.
To those who wonder whether fashion brands fit better within diversified conglomerates than in a vertically integrated yarns-to-clothing group, Mr Ferragamo says that time alone will tell.
The company said it would achieve this by leveraging existing resources to expand sales, achievement of cost savings and extracting the full benefits of a vertically integrated business.
Back in 2004, researchers presented Carly Fiorina with a business plan for a vertically integrated company that would produce solar panels and operate power plants built on its own products.
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Graff can count one potent rival, the Israeli Lev Leviev ( see FORBES, Sept. 15, 2003), who has set up a diamond operation even more vertically integrated than Graff's.
Behind this retail chain is a wholesale buying operation: Graff Diamonds International is vertically integrated, taking stones from the rough shapes that come out of the mine to the display case.
Deregulation laws passed by many states in the late 1990s required vertically integrated utilities to separate their generation, transmission and distribution businesses in order to foster more competition and lower prices.
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