market consolidation
Fewer competitors remaining
Market consolidation is the process by which an industry's competitors merge or acquire one another, reducing the number of independent players.
A fragmented market with many small firms becomes concentrated among fewer, larger ones: Market consolidation in the airline industry left just four major carriers.
The term can describe either the trend itself or a specific merger wave.
- mergersCorporate consolidations
- antitrust lawsRegulations preventing corporate monopolies
- acquisitionsThings newly gained
- price fixingIllegal coordinated rate-setting
- divestituresSales of owned assets
big fish eat small fish · corporate restructuring · diversification · efficiency gains · monopolization · consumer protection laws · level playing field · government intervention · oligopoly · too big to fail · buying power · economies of scale · hostile takeovers · profit maximization · trade restrictions · squeeze out · barrier to entry · vertical integration
market consolidationfragmentation
Breaking into smaller pieces
deconsolidation · disintegration · atomization · spin-offs · unbundling
market consolidationdivestiture
Disposal of assets
spin-off · corporate breakup · demerger · unbundling · trust-busting
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