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Vertical integration occurs when a company owns several parts of the chain that ends in a finished product. For example, if the company produces the raw ingredients and also owns the means of turning those ingredients into finished products, this gives them an advantage compared to a company that has to find someone to use their raw product.

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Carnegie Controlled Almost the entire steel industry . by the time he sold his business in 1901 , Carnegie's companies produced by far the largest portion of steel.

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Q: How did vertical integration help businesses such as the Carnegie Company and tycoons like Andrew Carnegie?
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