Analysts have admired Tenneco's ability to time its sales and to invest in complementary businesses.
Rather than going it alone, it may be less risky to develop a partnership or joint venture with a complementary business.
It's very important that you look for a complementary business that adds value to both yours and to theirs.
Co-opetition means teaming up with complementary businesses to market your companies together.
They belong to an organized group of 40 or so people in complementary but noncompeting businesses that have turned networking into a fine science.
Supporters of a full merger hadlong argued that the companies have complementary businesses.
By 1930, Ferry was growing most of its seed in California, and the two firms had complementary businesses.
Others establish complementary businesses to service the nonprofit sector.
"They thought this would be a complementary business for them, but it has been nothing but a drag."
Google said it would use the money for "acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets".