1.   Antonini had headed the financial services arm of USAA Life Insurance Co., a company mutually owned by its membership of U.S. military officers and families.

2.   Boeing can also leverage a strong services arm to help it win new sales.

3.   Charles River took a lot of fees upfront on its latest fund because it was starting CRVelocity, a service arm for start-ups.

4.   Selling the financial services arm would free those units from the controversy surrounding the tobacco business.

5.   Still, to ward off the semblance of bias, many manufacturers, including IBM and Unisys, have given autonomy to their manufacturing and services arms.

6.   The largest by far is GE Capital, the financial services arm that accounts for about a third of revenue.

7.   The largest division by far is GE Capital, the financial services arm that accounts for about a third of revenue.

8.   They manage to escape entanglement questions by setting their service arms apart from their sponsoring religious bodies.

9.   Tyco eventually bought commercial lender CIT Group, adding a financial service arm in another GE parallel.

10.   Paper company Portucel, cement company Cimpor and SN-Servicos, the services arm of steel company Siderurgia Nacional, are also slated for privatization.