Question: Do both Xylem Inc. and LKQ Corporation sell the similar products?

Context articles: Natural Products Association
Defensive strategy (marketing)
Tobacco-Free Pharmacies
Xylem Inc.
Competitive heterogeneity
C3controls
LKQ Corporation
Euro Car Parts
Gretchen W. McClain
Atari Age

The Natural Products Association or NPA (formerly the NNFA, or the National Nutritional Foods Association) is the largest and oldest nonprofit organization representing the interests of manufacturers and retailers of the natural products industry, which includes organic and health foods, dietary supplements, natural ingredient cosmetics, and other similar products.
 The organization includes more than 1,900 members accounting for more than 10,000 retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors of natural products.
Defensive strategy is defined as a marketing tool that helps companies to retain valuable customers that can be taken away by competitors.
 Competitors can be defined as other firms that are located in the same market category or sell similar products to the same segment of people.
 When this rivalry exist, each company has the challenge to protect its brand, growth expectations and profitability in order to have a strong competitive advantage and an adequate reputation among other brands.
 In order to reduce the risk of money losses, firms have to take action and take their competition away from the industry.
Tobacco-Free Pharmacies is a term used to refer to retail pharmacies where the sale of tobacco products is not available.
 Outside the United States, it is rare for pharmacy stores to sell cigarettes and similar products on the same premises as over-the-counter drugs and prescription medication.
 Anti-tobacco campaigners advocate the removal of tobacco from pharmacies due to the health risks associated with smoking and the apparent contradiction of selling cigarettes alongside smoking cessation products and asthma medication.
 Some pharmaceutical retailers counter this argument by reasoning that by selling tobacco, they are more readily able to offer to customers advice and products for quitting smoking.
Xylem Inc. is a large American water technology provider, enabling customers worldwide to transport, treat, test and efficiently use water in public utility, residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial settings.
 The company does business in more than 150 countries.
 Launched in 2011 from the spinoff of the water-related businesses of ITT Corporation, Xylem is headquartered in Rye Brook, N.Y., with 2015 revenues of $3.65 billion and 12,500 employees worldwide.
Competitive heterogeneity is a concept from strategic management that examines why industries do not converge on one best way of doing things.
 In the view of strategic management scholars, the microeconomics of production and competition combine to predict that industries will be composed of identical firms offering identical products at identical prices.
 Deeper analyses of this topic were taken up in industrial organization economics by crossover economics/strategic-management scholars such as Harold Demsetz and Michael Porter.
 Demsetz argued that better-managed firms would make better products (or similar products at lower costs) than their competitors.
 Such firms would translate better products or lower prices (an optimal decision based on lower costs) into higher levels of demand, which would lead to revenue growth.
 These firms would then be larger than the more poorly managed competitors.
 Porter argued that firms in an industry would cluster into strategic groups.
 Each group would be similar and movement between groups would be difficult and costly (barriers to mobility).
 Richard Rumelt and Stephen Lippman demonstrated how firms could differ in an industry in partial equilibrium-like circumstances.
 Richard Nelson and Sidney G. Winter discussed how firms develop differing capabilities.
 During this time, industrial economics focused on industry characteristics, treated the differences among firms in an industry as trivial.
 This was a point of contention within strategy and between strategy and economics from about 1980 to the mid-1990s.
c3controls, formerly known as Control Concepts Corporation, is a U.S. manufacturer of electric controls sold worldwide.
 The company manufactures its products to primarily be sold directly to its customers.
 Its line of products includes disconnect switches, contactors, overload relays, pilot lights, push buttons, terminal blocks, general purpose relays, and many other similar products.
 c3controls headquarters is in Beaver, Pennsylvania, where it was started in 1976 by Glenn Taylor.
LKQ Corporation is an American auto parts company.
 The company is focused on providing wholesale used and refurbished auto parts via its subsidiaries across the United States and the world.
 As of 2014, it was a Fortune 500 corporation.
 The company also operates facilities selling recycled automotive products.
Euro Car Parts is a distributor based in the United Kingdom of car parts and accessories, with locations across the United Kingdom.
 The company was bought by LKQ Corporation in October 2011 for £255million.
Gretchen W. McClain is an American business executive.
 She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Booz Allen Hamilton and Ametek.
 She served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Xylem Inc. (), and as the former Chief Director of the International Space Station and Deputy Associate Administrator of Human Space Exploration at NASA.
Atari Age was a magazine distributed to Atari Club members from 1982 until 1984.
 It was published by The Atari Club, Inc., a subsidiary of Atari, Inc. The magazine only covered Atari products and events, offering exclusive deals to its readers, and serving as an advertising and merchandise outlet for the company.
 Atari used the magazine to build brand loyalty.
 The articles extolled Atari games and lavished them with praise, regardless of their comparison to similar products from competitors.
 The magazine was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.