Influence of External Environment on Competitive Ability of Dairy Enterprises

The paper aims to prove the need for vertical integration of milk processing plants with raw milk producers. It presents the analysis’ results of the environment external influence on the competitiveness of dairy enterprises. Proposed recommendations to provide the effective functioning of the main process units’ dairy industry by creating a dairy’s vertical, which on an equal basis could combine agricultural enterprises and individual households as producers of milk and dairy processing plants of its industrial infrastructure.