Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: A survey conducted on the marketing departments of some of Europe's to

In my opinion both D and E are wrong. One standrad practice in GMAT is NOT to use the same pronoun in a sentence to refer to two different antecedents:
In
"....companies with a brand-orientated approach achieved twice as much return ontheir equity..."
and
"...as those that placedtheir focus elsewhere..."
the pronoun "their" refers to two diferent sets
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