Vertical merger
A merger between two firms where one is a major supplier of the other. Examples would be a brewery and a chain of public houses, or a publisher and a bookshop. This is contrasted with a horizontal merger, which combines two firms operating at the same stage of production.
Reference: Oxford Press Dictonary of Economics, 5th edt.
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