Unrelated businesses
A. will always have several key suppliers in common.
B. employ production methods that create economies of scale.
C. have dissimilar value chains and resource requirements with no competitively important cross-business commonalities at the value chain level.
D. perform better than just the sum of the individual businesses.
E. sell products from the different businesses to much the same types of buyers and retail outlets.
Answer: C
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