Lincoln Watase, CEO and President of Yum Yum Donut Shops, lists the different ways that vertical integration helps a business maximize their profit opportunities, control the quality of the supplies, ...

HDT's Deborah Lockridge on how the trucking industry has moved toward 'vertical integration' over the past 25 years.

For example, a manufacturer might merge with a distributor selling its products. A vertical merger can help ... either with suppliers (backward integration) or customers (forward integration ...

Vertical analysis is a method of financial ... of whether performance metrics are improving or deteriorating. For example, by showing the various expense line items in the income statement as ...