What is a diagonal business combination?
A diagonal business combination is when two companies that provide support services combine to make them one company. The main objective in a diagonal business combination is to make the support service larger and self sufficient.
For example, if one company is a manufacture and one provides repair services, then they would merge so that both companies would be self sufficient on a combined basis.
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