I am at my wits end with the finance jargon in this article.

纵向深耕

“前厂后牧”

横向拓展

梳理品牌类别

Second para is the tough one http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20120822/7691759.html

It seems the author is describing basically the same thing, 'vertical integration'/'vertically integrate', but I can't work it out, because some words seem to mean horizontal.. I'm very confused. This reminds me of my days doing 报刊在北师大. Would really appreciate some clarification.

Thanks for your help previously, Echo.