Big Business

3. Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company
10. Costs incurred when running a company (wages, shipping costs, buying raw materials)
15. A company that owns all of the diferent businesses on which it depends for its operation
17. The reduction in the cost of a good brought about especially by increased production at a given facility
19. An organization that is authorized y law to carry on an activity but treated as through it were a single person
20. Perhaps the most successful investment banker

1. Agreements to keep prices at a certain level
2. A company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies
4. Comvining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation
5. The first advertising company
6. These people specialized in helping companies issue stock
7. Advertising atracted readers to THIS newest retail business
8. Costs a company pays even if it is not operating (loans, mortgages, taxes)
9. A person who buys what is produced by an economy
11. Through a series of buyouts, this person's company controlled about 90% of the oil refining industry in the US
12. To reach millions of people who lived in rural areas, retailers began issuing THESE
13. Selling ______ allows a corporation to raie money while spreading out the financial risk
14. A group of retail outlets owned by the same company
16. A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition
18. This individual (last name only) used the Bessemer process to make high quality steel more efficiently and cheaply