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Will the merge between Boots and Alliance UniChem benefit both customers and the two businesses
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Would the merger between Boots and Alliance UniChem be successful? If the company's were to merge it would be a horizontal integration because the two businesses are rivals and they are both at the same stage of the production chain. The advantages of horizontal integration are that the formed business might be able to achieve more internal economies of scale and hold a bigger market share. The advantages of achieving internal economies of scale are generally reducing the average cost on producing at a large scale. This could be done in many ways in internal economies of scale like, purchasing economies which is when a large company buy in bulk to get discount, small businesses might not be able to do this because they can not afford to buy in bulk or do not have enough space to store the stock. For example if boots and alliance UniChem merged they would...
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