Horizontal integration is a business strategy in which one company buys, merges with, or takes over another in the same industry value chain. A higher degree of differentiation: Customers will be able ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued new draft Merger Guidelines on July 19. The draft Merger Guidelines were created with the goal "to better ...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice recently proposed drafts of new Merger Guidelines for their review and approval of mergers and acquisitions, with the intent of responding to ...

An example of a merger would be that business A and business B want to expand but do not feel they can get any bigger alone. Both businesses decide to come together and share their business ...

GTCR already owns the second largest medical device coatings manufacturer, Biocoat, and the FTC holds market monopoly ...

“Generally these horizontal mergers tend not to be heavily ... These are considered largely different market areas.” Unlike the recent merger between LVHN and Jefferson, where two large ...