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Industry and Competitive Analysis

Producers in an industry purchase a critical component that is available from only two suppliers worldwide. The component has no close substitutes, it represents a large share of the producers' total costs, and switching to the other supplier requires a lengthy and costly requalification process. In a five-forces analysis of the producers' industry, these conditions most likely indicate:

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