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Difference Between Organic And Inorganic Growth

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To grow a company could choose between two ways: by organic or inorganic growth.
With an organic growth, as the words itself could state, the company grows in a spontaneous way: by increasing its output and increasing its sales. This would happen in many ways, i.e. with an increase of employee, with the development of a new product or the opening of a new factory in different places. As an example, a food manufacturing company can open different factory across the Europe to bring its product to a different country, and grow every year with the new revenue generated by the new markets. Another way would be by creating a new product: since the market may be saturated with the old ones, and sales may be fixed from a lot of time, a new product could create curiosity and help sell more.
With an inorganic growth, a company has to expand itself by merging other companies. Inorganic growth is much complex and difficult, but if performed in a professional and careful way, it could result in a significant boost for all the players involved in the acquisition.
Inorganic growth can be split into two different categories: horizontal and vertical integration. With a horizontal integration, who similar companies join their forces to create a better service for their customers. For example, a food company like Netslè bought San Pellegrino in 1997 to expand their mineral water worldwide.
With a vertical integration, two companies that offer different products in the same production process,

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