The Shenzhen-based control systems supplier also provides products and services to worldwide household appliance manufacturers Electrolux and Siemens.

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It has already won control of two of the generation companies, and will be the biggest supplier of gas to virtually all of them.

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Two years later, they founded Yantai Jereh, which grew into a major supplier of oilfield equipment and services for oil and gas drilling, natural gas liquefaction and environmental control.

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But the upside is that by taking control of the plant's body or paint shop, for instance, a supplier can expect a bigger chunk of revenue from Chrysler for years to come.

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If Netscape remained the leading supplier of browsers, Windows would risk being turned into an almost irrelevant commodity, and Netscape rather than Microsoft would control the gateway that leads to the Internet.

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