Digipics is an assembler of digital cameras. As an assembler, Digipics' operations are limited to purchasing all of the components necessary to assemble the cameras and then selling these cameras to wholesalers who, in turn, sell them through online stores and in retail electronics stores.

If Digipics were to begin manufacturing lenses for the cameras they assembled, this wouldbe an example of:

A) backward vertical integration
B) a strategic alliance
C) forward vertical integration
D) opportunism

A) Backward vertical integration.

Explanation:

In this new rapid changing environment where competitiveness is a key to success, often businesses try hard to keep the cost low, without loosing it's charms. Sometimes, it does that by doing the processes of supply chain itself that is vertical integration.

Backward Vertical Integration: It is a type of integration in which company takes the responsibility of creating the required product which is prerequisite for the final product.

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henry is an economist and wants to understand the relationship between inflation and consumer spending habits. for his research, he needs the consumer price index for 2014 and the inflation rate. based on the prices of goods given, what will he find to be the cpi and inflation rate for 2014? assume that a consumer’s basket for three consecutive years consists of the following:

you dont privide answer choices.

answer - 15% of a inflatation rate is 15% less in cpi