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What are three types of opportunities for sharing that form a sound basis for diversification or vertical integration? Give an example of each from companies you have read about.

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Opportunities for sharing that form a sound basis for diversification or vertical integration are:

Increased control over the market as competitors are not able to survive due to improved quality and cost of the products offered by the new combined entity which not only improves in terms of efficiency but also gains access to new and bigger set of consumers. The entity is ableto ...

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