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A marketing group used data from internally developed customer satisfaction surveys and externally acquired market share data covering the same period to develop the following graph. The CEO asks the quality manager to review this information and explain it at the next senior management meeting.

Which of the following is the most appropriate initial observation explaining the chart?

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