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Organic Growth

Driven by internal expansion using reinvested profits/loans

  • Gaining greater market share

  • Diversification

  • Opening a new store

  • International expansion

  • Investing in new machinery

Advantages:

  • Can maintain current management style

  • Less risk

  • Easy to manage

  • Easy to control

  • Not as disruptive as inorganic growth - morale remains high

Disadvantages:

  • Time consuming

  • If market not growing, business restricted to increasing market share of finding a new market to sell products in