how is inorganic growth achieved 
firms can choose to grow inorganically in several ways including engaging in mergers and acquisitions and in the case of retail or branch organizations opening new stores or branches mergers are challenging from an integration perspective acquisitions can be accretive to earnings but the implementation of the technology or knowledge acquired can take time in other words pulling the value out of mergers and acquisitions is more complex than taking credit for sales costs in the form of restructuring charges can greatly increase expenses the purchase price of the acquisition can also be prohibitive for some firms by opening new stores in profitable locations businesses can take advantage of the higher growth rates associated with new stores however when new stores are placed in locations that cannibalize sales and or do not have enough traffic to support those stores they can be a drag on sales inorganic growth vs organic growth