A vertical integration strategy can expand the firm's range of activities
A. to complement the industry's horizontal value chain line of profitability.
B. to establish full integration by participating in a tapered integration (without the outsourced and in-house activities).
C. backward into other industry business lines and/or forward to suppliers of raw materials.
D. to enable the supply chain the opportunity for expansion.
E. backward into sources of supply and/or forward toward end users.
Answer: E
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