US / Americas Data

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Newsletters
Updated Daily

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

News via FT.com
Updated Hourly

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.

Global Merging Market Company Data
Updated Monthly

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
Updated Daily

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:

U.S. Government Data
Updated bi-weekly

Carroll Publishing produces America's largest database of government decision makers, providing contact information on 320,000 leaders that span active federal, federal regional, state, county and municipal offices and agencies as well as defense organizations. Carrolls periodic surveys indicate that approximately 85 percent of its 320,000 contacts were in the room when the spending decision was made for all revenue spent by any level of government. With the various government levels taken together spending an estimated $97 billion annually, Carrolls data offers a fast and effective means of targeting todays key government decision makers.

UK Executive Contacts and IT/Telecom Profiles
Updated Monthly

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.

U.S. Public and Private Company Data
Updated Weekly

The CorpTech database provides information on about 50,000 high technology manufacturing companies including U.S. public and private parent companies, subsidiaries and divisions.

CorpTech includes its own complete hierarchy of industry and product codes. Industry codes map to traditional SIC codes, but below that level, the product codes divide each high technology industry into much more specific groupings for a rich and complete picture of each industry and its products.

Credit Data with Credit Insights Premium
Updated Monthly

Credit.net, a division of infoUSA, provides unlimited business credit reports on more than 14 million U.S. and Canadian businesses. InfoUSA begins its data collection from thousands of yellow pages. This ensures that location, phone, and business lines are highly accurate. InfoUSA then makes 70,000 daily calls to validate and enrich the profiles. Other sources include public records, SEC filings, news, NCOA (national change of address), and utility transactions.

Credit reports include credit scores, recommended credit limits, liens and judgments, neighboring businesses, and similar businesses in the area.

Market Research
Updated Monthly

Datamonitor plc is a premium business information company specializing in industry analysis from around the globe. Datamonitor's 2,500 industry reports provide top-level information for seven major industry sectors: Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare, Technology and Logistics. Each report contains quantitative and qualitative summary information including forecasts and predictions, key industry highlights and analysis, market size, product and market segmentation and profiles of top companies in each industry.

Market Research
Updated Monthly

The Freedonia Group is a leading international business research company, founded in 1985.

Freedonia Focus reports provide concise, unbiased information on eighteen US industry segments, encompassing 280 separate reports at the SIC level. Each report provides key industry highlights and analysis, market size, product and market segmentation and forecasts, and includes profiles of the top three companies in each industry.

Annual Reports
Updated Daily

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
Updated Monthly

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.

U.S. Nonprofit Company Data
Updated Monthly

GuideStar's National Database of Nonprofit Organizations offers users a wealth of information about American nonprofit organizations. It is the nation's most comprehensive source of data on U.S. nonprofits the Internal Revenue Service has declared tax exempt under Section 501(c) of the U.S. Tax Code. GuideStar collects information on the organizations in the database from three main sources: the IRS Business Master File (BMF), IRS Forms 990 and 990-EZ, and the nonprofits themselves.

Global Companies and Executives
Updated Monthly

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.

U.S. and Canadian Private and Public Company Data
Updated Monthly

infoUSA is the leading provider of sales and marketing support for products for all types of businesses, from small Mom & Pop shops to large corporations. The company compiles the world's finest databases of 14 million U.S. businesses and 200 million U.S. consumers, and 1.2 million Canadian businesses and 12 million Canadian consumers under one roof in Omaha, Nebraska.

Analysts' Reports
Updated Daily

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:

U.S. and Canadian IT Data and Executives
Updated Monthly

Applied Computer Research, established in 1971, publishes the Directory of Top Computer Executives, the Computer Literature Index, and a variety of other publications on the management of information technology at major companies. Companies covered by Applied Computer Research are primarily those with more than 500 employees, a multi-user host machine or in excess of 100 desktop systems and an annual IT budget no smaller than $250,000.

Nursing Home and Hospital Data
Updated Quarterly

Mailings Clearing House (MCH) is a leading provider of comprehensive mailing list databases covering education, health care, religion, libraries, and government. The databases are supported by a large research staff that compile and update the data continuously, primarily through telephone surveys. The research department also conducts custom telephone research for Mailings Clearing House customers.

Updated Continuously

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.

Updated Continuously

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

Industry Norms
Updated Annually

The Risk Management Association (RMA) was founded in 1914 to help commercial bankers make better lending decisions through the exchange of credit information. Today, RMA is the only association that specializes in promoting effective and prudent risk management practices for institutions of all sizes, across the entire financial services industry.

The RMA Annual Statement StudiesTM provide financial ratio benchmarks derived directly from more than 190,000 financial statements. Classified by NAICS code, the Annual Statement Studies provide common-size balance sheet and income statement line items arrayed by asset and sales size. RMA also provides five years of trend data and nineteen classical financial statement ratios.

News
Updated Daily

Singapore 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:

Market Research
Updated Monthly as Available

STAT-USA is an agency in the Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. Their mission is to provide vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by various U.S. Government organizations.

The Census Bureau's Current Industry Reports as released by STAT-USA provide timely and accurate data on production and shipments of selected products. The reports may be used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making.

The International Trade Administration's Industry Sector Analysis Reports as released by STAT-USA offer succinct, international market information on specific industries that can help determine market potential, market size, and competitors for your products and services. Reports are written by U.S. Department of Commerce employees at US Consulates worldwide and are focused on individual countries.

News
Updated Every 30 Minutes

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:

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 ten years is maintained.

UK Executive Contacts and IT Profiles
Updated Monthly

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.

U.S. Executives
Updated Monthly

Wendover, publisher of The Technology Marketing Report, provides high-quality contact information for information technology and business executives at a broad range of U.S. companies and organizations. Founded in 1987, Wendover specializes in conducting telephone market research to identify IT opportunities in the planning stage. This methodology, paired with an aggressive quarterly updating schedule, ensures the quality of Wendover contact data -- particularly for hard-to-find, mid-management IT and business decision-makers.

Currency Data
Updated Weekly

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 standardized spot rates for global foreign exchange transactions, using rates provided by Reuters. This rate is recognized 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 with Executive Insights Premium
Updated Monthly

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.

US/North America information is drawn from these sources: