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Newsletters
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Access Intelligence, LLC (formerly PBI) provides 15 newsletters covering the following business sectors: aviation, communications, defense, security, media, and PR.

UK Executive Contacts
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Established in 1977, AP Information Services Ltd. is one of the most highly respected information providers in the UK, helping companies build business by supplying highly accurate and targeted contact information in key areas such as Marketing, Personnel, Training, Corporate Finance and Pension Funds. Through the publication of a wide range of directories, AP holds a database of over 150,000 named business contacts and decision-makers. In addition to extensive data on executives, AP also provides in depth advisor data on UK companies. This data consists of details on auditors, solicitors, and a number of other different service providers for UK companies. AP's Crawford's database also provides in depth advisor data on UK companies. This data consists of details on auditors, solicitors, and a number of other different service providers for UK companies. Companies covered by AP generally meet one of the following criteria:

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Headquartered in Nottingham, UK, Experian has over 13,000 employees working to support over 40,000 customers in 60 countries. Its mission is to provide business services that help organisations find the best prospects and quickly make informed decisions to improve customer relationships. Experian's comprehensive coverage of the largest 400,000 UK public and private companies is available in Business Browser and includes general company and executive information as well as full financial statements.

UK Public and Private Company Data
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Founded in 1974, the RM Group specialises in providing comprehensive UK company information as well as company registration and trademark services. RM's U.K. company database is available in Business Browser and provides access to original company documents as well as full company information--including company, executive director, shareholder, mortgages and charges, county court judgment, dormant status and gazette code data--for the more than 2.8 million currently active U.K. companies registered at Companies House.

News via FT.com
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Providing information usually not seen outside the Asian region, Asia Pulse employs bilingual journalists who gather news with an inside perspective, researching exclusive information directly from banks, corporations, and policy-making agencies, rather than depending on handouts from official sources. With its emphasis on corporate research, Asia Pulse not only delivers up to 300 reports daily, but also profiles key industries and reports on each country's infrastructure when key developments occur.Asia Pulse draws on the resources of Asia's own major news and information providers: AAP Information Services Pty Ltd of Australia, Bernama of Malaysia, LKBN ANTARA of Indonesia, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. of Japan, The Press Trust of India Ltd, Vietnam News Agency, Yonhap News Agency of Korea, as well as Xinhua News Agency of the People's Republic of China.

Spanish Public and Private Company Data
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Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Granada, Axesor - Grupo Infotel is a global business information services supplier on the internet. The data covers over 40,000 companies, updated on a fortnightly basis. Data fields include company contact information, ownership information, Spanish activity codes, employee figures, executive and board members, clients, suppliers, shareholders and share holdings, in-depth financial data and more.Axesor was rated a Tornado100 company by Tornado Insider in Europe and in fact was the only Spanish company within the Hi-Tech sector to be included.Axesor employs a team of 185 researchers dedicated to cleansing, analysing, verifying and improving the quality across their in-depth database of Spanish companies.

Global Merging Market Company Data
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Established in 1984, Business Monitor International is a leading publisher of specialist business information on global emerging markets. Business Monitor International services covers political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and the business operating environment.The core of the database is an approximate 55,000 plus-site multinational companies database which maps out the subsidiary network of the world's top 750 companies and their 120,000+ senior executives in 50 markets across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Emerging Europe. The balance of the database is made up by 6,000 HQ and regional head offices, and large public and privately-owned national companies.

Canadian News
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Published since October 22, 1998, the National Post is Canada's newest national daily newspaper, but its business sections, The Financial Post and FP Investing, have been published since 1907. For close to 100 years, these publications have been providing comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of business, the economy and investing, with a focus on Canadian companies, to over 700,000 readers.CanWest Global Communications Corp. is Canadas leading international media company. The Companys diversified holdings include CanWest News Service (CNS). The CanWest News Service feed includes approximately 80 news stories daily, written by CanWest News Service writers and/or selected from these CanWest newspapers:

Belgian Public Sector and Partnership Data
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Coface Euro DB, part of the Coface Group, provides data on Belgian companies, of which the largest 25,000 are included. Coface Euro DB is affiliated with the Business Information Group Network (Bignet), the leading international network for corporate commercial and financial information. As the exclusive distributor of Banque Carrefour des Entreprises, an organisation essentially responsible for management of the Belgian Trade Register, Euro DB is uniquely positioned to provide robust and timely data. Information includes company contact information, ownership information, activity codes, employee figures, executive and board members, shareholders and share holdings, in-depth financial data and more and is updated on a weekly basis.

UK Executive Contacts and IT/Telecom Profiles
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Founded in 1992, Corpdata provides high-quality marketing data collected via telephone research.Corpdata provides coverage of approximately 90,000 UK companies and 250,000 decision-making contacts at both head office and branch locations. Also included is IT information on 15,000 UK companies and telecom information on 8,000 UK companies.Data research operates on a 6 month update cycle, yielding an average data age of 3 months. Corpdata offers an expanding range of services in addition to the above data, including marketing databases, practical database support services, bespoke research and services for publishers.

German, Italian, French and Dutch Public and Private Company Data
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D&B Germany, a member of the Bisnode Group, and D&B Italy, France and Netherlands provide high-quality business information and solutions, which support confident decision-making processes and the identification of high-potential business opportunities. D&B's services are based on a database comprising more than 130 million companies worldwide. The data and solutions derived from this database provide solutions for identifying and reducing risks, acquiring customers or creating procurement transparency.

Business Browser contains 800,000 company profiles from D&B. Coverage includes 250,000 German, 200,000 Italian, 250,000 French and 100,000 Dutch companies. D&B profiles contain detailed company, executive, industry information, and financial statements covering 3 years where available.

UK Public Sector and Partnership Data
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Data Resource Corporation plc provides a database of 60,000 non-corporate organisations, selected from approximately 1.3 million actively trading non-corporates. Non-Corporates include non-limited companies, partnerships, local and central government and other public sector entities, focusing on the larger organisations in these sectors. Data Resource physically monitors the UK business environment to add new businesses and ensure existing sites are still active. Information is collected by field agents who cover assigned postal areas. Interviews occur every nine months, with drive-by activity occurring every few months. Further information is taken from trade tapes indicating business size, and from diverse data sources. The database is updated twice a year.

Annual Reports
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The Global Reports Library of financial filings from publicly traded companies around the world is the most comprehensive collection available online. Full color Annual Reports, Interims, and Quarterly Filings are available from more than 25,000 companies in more than 70 countries, with history as far back as 1996.

International Public and Private Company Data
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Graham & Whiteside publishes business directory information on over 87,000 public and private companies worldwide covering more than 150 countries, excluding the U.S. Information includes address, telephone number, fax number, executives list, business description, subsidiaries, service providers, sales, number of employees, type of company, and SIC code specification. Availability of data items varies significantly by country and by ownership type. Company information is updated 1-2 times per year.

Irish Public and Private Company Data
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ICC provides comprehensive coverage on UK, Irish and European companies, including company information, financial statements, director and shareholder information and credit analysis. ICC's analysed reports contain information elements that have been preselected by analysts and researched to ensure fast and relevant access to information. ICC's data is accredited with an ISO9001 certification ensuring a quality standard.Up to 100,000 Irish companies with associated financial reports and director and secretary information will be available in Business Browser. All of the companies are registered with Companies Registration Office (CRO) in Ireland.

Global Companies and Executives
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idEXEC, Inc., an infoUSA company, specializes in maintaining a comprehensive database of companies and executives from major global corporations. Executive information is classified via a detailed job function taxonomy which facilitates searching for specific types of contacts. The database covers companies in the United States and Canada whose sales are $25 million and higher, in addition to a full set of global company profiles.

Analysts' Reports
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Investext, a Thomson Financial company, provides analysts' reports that supply analysis of more than 46,000 U.S. and international corporations, written by hundreds of analysts at leading investment banks and brokerage houses around the world. Investext also offers analysis of 54 industry segments (such as aerospace, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), covering their key companies, trends, and emerging markets. These reports provide extensive analysis, financial data, and projections, as well as expert insight into trends, management strength, and corporate strategy.The following reports are published where available:

Per company - The six most recent reports of three or more pages, the two most recent initiating coverage reports, the three most recent one- and two-page reports, and any additional one- and two-page reports published in the last nine months.

Per industry (from each of the following regions: US, UK, Europe, Asia) - The three most recent reports of three or more pages, the three most recent one- and two-page reports, and any additional one- and two-page reports published in the last nine months.

Austrian, Swiss and Nordic Public and Private Company Data
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Over the past 60 years Kompass has built up an international network of publishers, collecting and supplying company information. Today Kompass offers an international Business to Business information database with in-depth company, executive, industry and financial information on 2.4 million companies in over 70 countries worldwide.Kompass supplies OneSource with over 120 thousand company records including 10,000 Austrian, 15,000 Swiss, 30,000 Swedish, 16,000 Finish, 25,000 Danish and 25,000 Norwegian records. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian records include a financial profile.Kompass visits key executives and circulates proofs regularly to the companies in its database. This is followed up by telephone verification to ensure that the data is accurate.

Maps
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Multimap, Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services, provides online maps for UK companies.

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OneSource maintains and proactively updates over 300,000 URLs, 160,000 corporate family trees and thousands of top executive changes to provide the highest quality information in these key areas. Assembled from data provided by Information Partners, these elements are delivered via our proprietary Global Business Taxonomy (GBT) system and are researched and updated by OneSource Integration and Quality Specialists.

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About PR Newswire
PR Newswire is the global leader in innovative communications and marketing services, enabling organizations to connect and engage with their target audiences worldwide.
Through its multi-channel distribution network, audience intelligence, targeting, and measurement services, PR Newswire helps corporations and organizations conduct rich, timely and dynamic dialogues with the media, consumers, policymakers, investors and the general public, in support of building brands, generating awareness, impacting public policy, driving sales, and raising capital.

Pioneering the commercial news distribution industry 55 years ago, PR Newswire connects customers with audiences in more than 170 countries and in over 40 languages through an unparalleled network of offices in 16 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and via unique affiliations with the leading news agencies across the globe. PR Newswire is a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited (UBM.L), a leading global business media company that serves professional commercial communities around the world. For more information, go to www.UBM.com.

For access to PR Newswire's global breaking news, please go to http://www.onesource.com/global_news.aspx

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Reuters' new Global Fundamentals offering provides premier coverage on over 40,000 global companies in the developed as well as emerging world markets. Besides the fundamental business and company data, Reuters now also gives access to interim financial statements, enhancing the wide selection of quantitative and qualitative information vital for decision-making processes. With the understanding that accurate data is vital to optimal decision making, Reuters has implemented elaborate and effective quality control procedures. The company and financial information includes:

Comprehensive company data and business descriptions

Extensive executive coverage

Geographic and business segment reports

Significant development reports detailing key events at each firm

Various Web links to information on companies' Web sites

Annual and Interim Income Statements

Annual and Interim Balance Sheets

Annual and Interim Statements of Cash Flows

Reuters updates its company data using both press releases and SEC filings. In order to ensure the most up to date data on public companies, company press releases are used as sources for updating financials for a particular company. When data points can be derived from a company press release, these data points will be updated by Reuters. Company records are then subsequently updated later when SEC filings are made for the same period. As a result, Reuters records will always reflect the most up to date company data that is available.

News
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ingapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) is the leading newspaper publisher in Singapore. With over 1,000 journalists, including correspondents in 13 overseas bureaus, SPH is well equipped with the talent and network to deliver quality news and information content, covering both domestic and international markets from the Singaporean perspective. SPH's English language newspapers include:

The Straits Times - Launched on July 15, 1845, The Straits Times is the English flagship daily of SPH. Its coverage includes financial, world, East and Southeast Asian news and makes The Straits Times the most-read paper in Singapore, averaging a circulation of over 375,000 readers.

The Business Times - Singapore's only financial daily, The Business Times provides a complete guide on the local, regional and international business scene. First launched on October 1, 1976, it is an authoritative newspaper and considered a key source of business intelligence in Singapore and the Asian region.

Shipping Times also appears with the Business Times during the business week, providing the latest news stories and features on shipping, air and land transport and logistics.

News
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Adding substantive coverage of companies and industries throughout the world, Thomson Financial News provides news stories from over 30 news bureaus around the world through their global communications network, updated continually during the day.Providing international coverage of companies, with emphasis on the local viewpoint, Thomson Financial delivers the following services:

Thomson Financial News Europe: Euro Zone and beyond -- official and non-official releases on company news and economic developments

Thomson Financial News Asia: company news

Thomson Financial News UK: covering thousands of UK companies -- financial results, mergers, acquisitions and other activities, as well as official, original and full-text statutory text releases for the 3500 UK listed companies: financial results and sales reports, board changes, capitalisations, mergers, joint ventures

Business and Trade Articles

The Business and Industry database of publications includes important facts, figures, and events from all manufacturing and service industries. Analysts select articles from over 1200 leading trade and general business publications. Almost 800 publications are available in full text, while abstracts are available for the remainder. For focused searches, B&I analysts tag each articles with significant keywords and industries. New publications are added regularly; some publications are available as archives only. An archive of over four years is maintained.

UK Executive Contacts and IT Profiles
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VNU Business Information Europe is a leading UK publisher of technology news, product reviews, periodicals, and company profiles in print as well as on the web. CSSOnline is produced by VNU Database & Directories, a part of vnunet.com. For the past 30 years they have been collecting and publishing high-quality information about the UK IT industry.The Computer Software and Services database currently contains over 8,000 company profiles, with 14,600 software products and 13,000 named contacts. The Datasite database provides IT profiles and contact details for over 13,000 end-users of IT hardware and software in the UK. These databases are used to produce the "industry bibles" The Computer Users Year Book and The Software Users Year Book.

Currency Data
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The WM Company, based in Edinburgh, is one of the world's leading investment performance and administration consultancies. It measures investment portfolios based in the key global investment centres. It also provides a wide range of investment services: administration, valuation, and accounting. WM is a subsidiary of State Street Corporation.Since 1993, WM has calculated daily standardised spot rates for global foreign exchange transactions, using rates provided by Reuters. This rate is recognised as the global standard by banks, fund managers and index compilers. Both bid/offer rates and mid rates are available. The service covers quotes for 156 currencies against the USD, GBP and EUR.

Global Executive Biographies withExecutive Insights Premium
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Zoom Information Inc. provides contact and background information for a broad set of business executives at major US and Global companies and organizations. ZoomInfos technology continuously crawls the Internet and reads millions of websites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources. From this material, it automatically extracts biographical and other data on business professionals.

UK / Europe Data

UK/Europe information is drawn from these sources: