can you give me an examples of firms that are operating as natural monopoly in the Philippines?

Question

find me industries that has horizontal mergers and vertical mergers

Answer 1

san miguel corporation

natural monopoly definition:
A natural monopoly is a situation where for technical or social reasons there cannot be more than one efficient provider of a good. Public utilities are usually considered to be natural monopolies.

then one of them would be:
the lopezes. they've got:
the meralco,
the NLEX,
and abs-cbn (media).

thanks sageandscholar.

Answer 2

MERALCO in Metro-Manila, has been a monopoly for a long long time. Controls power at the heart of the Philippines, (pun intended).

Horizontal mergers are happening among banks to be able to compete internationally.

Vertical mergers I believe are happening among companies of different lines of business or products as they are purchased by a particular group of companies.

Answer 3

The key word here is Natural. A natural monopoly is an industry characterized by relatively high initial investment costs, the result being it is unprofitable for a second player to enter the market.
A large scale example would be Meralco.
On a smaller scale, a small town may only have one shopping mall, or a small village only one bar. This is because the industry cannot within that market support a second.

Answer 4

Meralco and other Lopez' corporations

Answer 5

Nestle? Del Monte? Unilab? Magnolia? (--,)

Answer 6

Globe and Smart networks, hate them.

Answer 7

On paper, there aren't many. However, in practice, the top corporations which lead a particular market conduct ingrained collusion activities to maintain their positions. Yes, it's the same in any capitalist country, but the Philippine government is one of the partners in these shenanigans.

Answer 8

alturas taga bohol

Answer 9

PAL