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The Financial Services Council (FSC) has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s (PC’s) finding that vertical integration is “not a problem in and of itself” but has urged consideration be given to ...

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Having all the necessary components to build something. For example, a semiconductor company that creates the photomasks, makes the wafers and packages the chips is an example of a vertically ...