Amway Corp. to market natural gas in conjunction with a Virginia partner

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Direct marketing firm Amway, based in Ada, Michigan, will team up with Columbia Energy Group of Herndon, Virginia, adding natural gas to the 450 products Amway representatives currently sell. The partners plan to kick off the effort in a friendly market, the state of Georgia, where 18 competitors will also be peddling natural gas to 1.4 million Georgia consumers. Nationwide Amway has a network of approximately one million distributors who could potentially market gas for Columbia. Avon Products claims it is only interested in the beauty business at this time.

Marketing procedures, Gas Utilities, Natural Gas Distribution, Alliances, partnerships, Geographic, Licensing/Sales Agreements, Gas Production and Distribution, Polishes and sanitation goods, Polishes & Sanitation Goods, Polish and Other Sanitation Good Manufacturing, Direct Marketing, Contracts, Natural gas, Columbia Energy Group, CG, Consumer goods, Amway Corp.

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WebMD tries to stake out spot as the Web's health-care portal

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A 28-year-old entrepreneur hopes that his WebMD Inc. becomes the standard for patients to access health information. Known as a 'niche portal' the WebMD service is a library of medical information and doctor services. The small firm has had help from HBO & Co. in the form of a $10 million investment and now there is a partnership with Thomson Healthcare Information Group, publisher of the Physician Desk Reference. Over 10,000 of the U.S.'s 700,000 doctors subscribe to the WebMD services.

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Web services are free for consumers to access health and doctor information

On-Line Information Services, Services information, Information retrieval services, Medical Database Vendors, Services, Health care industry, Online services, Internet services, Health care information services, WebMD Inc., Data libraries

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