More than 400 companies, primarily in the financial-services arena, provide the service, with monthly fees ranging from $4.95 to $12.95.
Ashlands products include Valvoline motor oil, and since it completed its $2.4 billion acquisition of Hercules last week, it has an expanded presence in the water-treatment arena, primarily servicing the pulp and paper industry.
For Facebook to move into such vast arenas of services without employing the kingmaker strategy or just picking a winner to feature will be a big challenge for user experience design.
Amazon has become increasingly dominant in several increasingly important arenas: cloud services, voice assistants, self-serving brick-and-mortar stores with Amazon Go, and of course its now-traditional role as the online everything store.
The latest chemicals acquisition would give Ashland, whose products include Valvoline motor oil, an improved presence in the water-treatment arena, primarily servicing the pulp and paper industry, and would create three new businesses: specialty additives and ingredients; paper and water technologies; and specialty resins.
In 1993 Mr. Moross formed Cutting Edge Marketing Solutions, a marketing business focused on the entertainment arena, which serviced large retail and mail order companies in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States by creating celebrity branded products for mass-market distribution.
If you laid out each of the Presidential candidate's resumes on a desk, including none of their names or their party or their gender, I really believe that Hillary's staggering breadth of experience in so many different arenas of service would win out.
But the new service, whenever it launches, will be entering an arena where old services already have footholds.
In the specialty-services arena, in which PBMs help customers get injectable pharmaceuticals and high-priced biotech drugs, Caremark had ranked first and Advance second.
"We are also very proud to have played a role in bringing Mr. Corzine back to the financial services arena".
