Durant Security operates across Florida and Georgia with a variety of products and services. It has a unit located in Tampa that provides home security to its clients, and another unit in Atlanta that provides security for businesses, in particular banks and high-technology firms. This is a ______ structure.   

A. functional
B. simple
C. geographic divisional
D. matrix
E. customer divisional


E. customer divisional

Customer divisions tend to group activities around common customers or clients. Here, Herndon has home service clients and business clients.

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