Ashland Inc.Company OverviewMarch 2015

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Ashland’s Vision: To be viewed as best specialty chemical company in the world

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2008: Acquired Hercules Incorporated

2006: Sold Ashland Paving and Construction

2011: Acquired International Specialty Products (ISP)

2011: Sold Ashland Distribution

2005: Sold stake in Marathon Oil joint venture

Our Transformation into Specialty Chemicals

2014: Sold Ashland Water Technologies and elastomers unit

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Corporate Profile

By commercial unit By geography

1 For 12 months ended December 31, 2014.2 Ashland includes only U.S. and Canada in its North America designation.

North America2

53%Asia Pacific

15%LatinAmerica/

Other - 7%

Europe25%

AshlandSpecialty

Ingredients41%

AshlandPerformance

Materials26%

Valvoline33%

Sales1 - $6.1 Billion

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North America

Manufacturing Sites:R&D/Tech Centers:Employees:

358

7,200

Europe

Manufacturing Sites:R&D/Tech Centers:Employees:

1610

1,800

Latin America and Other

Manufacturing Sites:R&D/Tech Centers:Employees:

24

300

Asia Pacific

Manufacturing Sites:R&D/Tech Centers:Employees:

47

1,400

Worldwide

Manufacturing Sites:R&D/Tech Centers:Employees:

5729

~10,700

Our Global Presence*

*As of December 2014

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Focus on Innovation

• Technology-driven sales process and approach to market

• Highly tailored customer solutions

• Broad new product pipeline

Strong MarketPositions

• Generally #1 or #2 market position

• Significantly expanded position in higher-margin, less-cyclical end markets

Global Reach

• Nearly half of sales are outside the U.S– More than 20% of

sales from emerging markets

• Sales in more than 100 countries

Broad Applications Expertise

• Deep industry knowledge of product applications

• Insights and expertise create comprehensive solutions to solve customers’ unique problems

Ashland Today

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World-classmanufacturing

Expert applications development & process enhancement

Meaningful innovation

Sustainable

solutions

Market insights through intimate knowledge & structure

Genuine collaboration

How We Create Value

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Commercial Unit

AshlandSpecialty

Ingredients

AshlandPerformance

MaterialsValvoline

Leading Products & Services

#1cellulose ethers,global leader in

vinyl pyrrolidones

#1unsaturated

polyester resins and vinyl ester

resins

#2quick-lube chain, #3 passenger-car

motor oil in the U.S.

Sales1 $2.5 billion $1.6 billion $2.0 billion

1 For 12 months ended December 31, 2014

Three Main Businesses

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Energy

Customer IntimacyMarket-driven Innovation

Formulation/Application ExpertiseOperational Efficiency and Effectiveness

Built on sixplatform

technologies:

With a business model driven by:

Pharma PersonalCare Nutrition Coatings Construction Adhesives

Industrial SpecialtiesConsumer Specialties

Two Growth Sectors, Seven Key Markets

Ashland Specialty Ingredients

VP Derivatives

Cellulose Ethers

Vinyl Ethers Urethanes

Hybrids

Acrylics

Biofunctionals

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Consumer Specialties Industrial Specialties

Pharmaceutical Care Nutrition Coatings Construction Adhesives Energy

Ashland Specialty IngredientsKey Markets and Applications

• Oral solid & oral liquid dosage forms

• Film coatings• Solubilization

enhancement• Pharmaceutical

services

• Oral, hair & skin care ingredients

• Biofunctionals• Preservatives• Advanced

materials for medical care

• Home care (cleaning & household cleaning, fabric care, detergents, dishwashing)

• Food & beverage ingredients

• Beer & wine stabilizers

• Agriculture

• Paint and coatings

• Waterborne architectural & industrial coatings

• Emulsion polymerization

• Structural assembly

• Flexible packaging and converting

• Pressure-sensitive adhesives

• Labels

• Drilling fluids• Cement

slurries• Completion/

workover fluids

• Production & fracturing fluids

• Kinetic inhibitors

• Fluidized polymer suspensions

• Gel pigs

• Dry mortar• Gypsum

plasters• Joint

compounds• Renders• Tile adhesives• Exterior

insulation finishing systems

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Our CapabilitiesFormulation

Application Development

Polymerization

Our TechnologiesCellulosics

PVPs and Vinyl EthersAcrylics

Unsaturated polyester resins/epoxy vinyl ester resins

Our CultureMarket Focus

InnovationPeople Development

AgilityEfficiency

Our Value Differentiators

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Ashland strives for excellence in global environmental, health, safety, and security performance. We responsibly manage our global environmental, health, safety and security obligations and positively contribute to the communities in which we operate and to society as a whole.

Responsible Care at Ashland includes: • A global management system to deliver excellence in

environmental, health, safety and security performance• Employee involvement at every level of the organization• Continual improvement toward Ashland’s Responsible

Care goals

Responsible Care goals:• Operate with zero incidents• Ensure compliance• Reduce environmental, health and safety impact

Responsible Care

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Job Description

Position Sales Support Executive for IndiaBand Band11Location: Vikhroli, MumbaiWork Time Zone General

Responsibilities:

Handling major customers as a Sales Support Executive for India. Managing sales contract with Key Indian Customers. Providing weekly forecast for monthly plan to achieve the sales target for a particular month. Planning & forecasting for local as well as direct supply. Follow up with Customer & Sales team to register Ashland as an approved vendor in system and for PO. Process the PO after checking the various contents mentioned in it to process further. Local Importation Pricing calculation & providing the quotation to all local as well as indent customers and ensuring

Bu’s Approval. Preparing and coordinating for new customer code form & credit limit with necessary approval. Taking required action if

credit limit is exceeding for customer for Indent as well as for local sales. Coordinate Service Delivery to ensure the forecasted sales are met. Co-ordination with SGP on day to day basis for timely dispatches / productions. Keeping informed and updated on shipment schedule and if any delay. Forwarding the NN shipping documents to customer on time followed with Original documents. Other Internal / external co-ordination to meet customers’ requirements. Resolving pre shipment and post shipment issues. Close Follow up and Interaction with customer to check the require deadlines for supply are met and for future

requirements if any. Providing local supply prices based on customer require qty & keeping suitable profitable margins. Keeping record and track pricing manually. Arrange for the dispatch as customer requested date. Coordinating with warehouse to ensure dispatches. Keeping a track of credit notes for timely generation & Payment. Keeping track & records of all dispatch details and required documents. Providing dispatch details to customers along with soft copy of LR and commercial invoice. Payment / C form follow-up in absence of Territory manager / BU Manager. Taking care of debit and credit note adjustments. Maintaining the records for Payments and C-Forms and keeping finance dept informed for the same.

Experience required: 5-8