AMWT's Potential Chances of Success in the New Division
Allied Medical Waste Transportation, Inc. (AMWT) emerged in late 1988 in response to concerns expressed by federal, state and local regulators regarding biomedical waste disposal practices and the impact upon human health and the environment if improperly managed. At that point in time, in most market areas, only BFI and/or Waste Management offered biomedical waste management services; and, as a result, those companies enjoyed a near monopoly in the marketplace, which reflected itself in the prices charged by those companies.
AMWT realized that neither of its competitors had focused on veterinary waste, and ...