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Business: Locating country specific information http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11b.html
Financial Datasheets. JordanWatch UK Companies. Pharm line UK
Pharmacy. British Trademarks. UK Importers.
Country reports, Financial Focus, Political focus, and International Economic Outlook
from the Union Bank of Switzerland, and more can be found in the Quest Economics
Database (QED) on Data Star, FT PROFILE, and Genios.
Investext offers a series of stockbroker research reports on European companies
and sectors from around 400 contributors based on the continent. Their reports offer
detailed analysis, important financial data, and forecasts on everything from the mayor
players to the small manufacturing firms.
LEXIS NEXIS has the Hoppenstedt German Trade Associations directory,
newsletters from the Europe Information Service: Europe Energy, Europe Environment,
Transport Europe and European Insight, a weekly brief on European Community related
happenings.
LEXIS NEXIS has databases with information about English and French law, and
other law material from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland and North America.
Their Martindale Hubbell Law Directory has information on over 700,000 lawyers and
law firms worldwide. The directory can be used for referrals, selection of associate
counsel, and evaluation of competitive counsel. The European Patent Office (EPO) is
also on the web.
Check out Kompass when planning exports to the EEC. Its database contains
details about companies in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, Holland,
Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Norway. Try GENIOS for more on Germany.
The German Federal Government is at http://www.government.de.
ILINK has the EEC I conference (Discussion about the European Common
Market). FT Profile offers full text searches (and a clipping service) in stories from
Financial Times. The database is being updated daily at 00:01.
ZiffNet's Business Database Plus has Agra Europe, Belgium: Economic and
Commercial Information, British Plastics & Rubber, British Telecom World, The
Economist, Erdol und Kohle, Erdgas, Petrochemie: Hydrocarbon Technology,
EuroBusiness, Euromoney, Europe 2000, European Cosmetic Markets, European
Rubber Journal, Report on the Austrian Economy, Royal Bank of Scotland Review,
swissBusiness.
Globalbase has Nouvel Economiste among its many offerings. Questel offers
access to 250,000 logos and images of French trademarks (1993), and patent
information from several European countries.
Dialog, Orbit, and STN are also great sources for patents data.
Scandinavia
Before meeting with people from Norsk Hydro, go online to get recent news about the
company (Chapter 9). It will only take a couple of minutes. What you find may be
important for the success of your meeting.
If you know the names of your most important competitors, use their names as
keywords for information about recent contracts, joint venture agreements, products
(and their features), and other important information.
Kompass offers information about companies and products in Scandinavia.
Information is presented in the local language of the different countries. You can search
by
company name
product or service (optionally using an industry classification code for companies
or products)
number of employees, type of business, postal number, telephone area code,
export area, year of incorporation, bank affiliation.
North America
There are so many sources focusing on North America, and we have already mentioned
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