Horizontal acquisition

Horizontal acquisition
Merger between two companies producing similar goods or services.
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Horizontal Acquisition
The acquisition of one company by another in the same industry. The new combined entity may be in a better competitive position than the standalone companies that were combined to form it.

So in the post-Coram environment, aggressive broad, national and regional horizontal acquisition strategies gave way to highly selective, local strategies where local IV companies, hospital systems, home medical equipment, ...

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Horizontal acquisition
Merger between two companies producing similar goods or services.
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horizontal acquisition An acquisition by one firm of another firm in the same industry. horizontal market A market which meets a given need of a wide variety of industries, rather than...

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