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development. It also meant that we explored the strategic options for the manufacturer only, and we
have very little conception of customer and distributor alternatives, i.e. their responses to
manufacturer actions. In general, the lack of information was problematic because it left us with a
number of model assumptions that were less well validated than they might have been.
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