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File Description [top]

IMS Company Profiles examines annually the internal make-up of key pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Each profile analyzes the critical components of a pharmaceutical company, providing a clear assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of a company's business strategy.

Generic, biotechnology and drug delivery companies are profiled, including national, multinational, public, and private firms.

Each company profile is comprised of several records, one or more for each section, as indexed in the SE= field, e.g., SE=STRATEGY STATEMENT. Also included are company profile updates, issued as significant events occur, e.g., SE=PROFILE UPDATES.

Each month the database is reloaded to contain only the most current information available on each profiled company.

File 449 is publicly available; File 984 is available only to subscribers of electronic or equivalent products from IMS.

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Subject Coverage [top]

The key components covered in each profile include:

• full strategic analysis
• interviews with key company executives
• comments from stockbrokers/analyst reports
• in-depth product and R&D reviews
• critical analyses provided by an in-house expert team
• mergers and acquisitions, licensing agreements.

Sources [top]

IMS Health collects data for Company Profiles from interviews with top company executives and financial analysts, press conferences, and investor meetings, as well as IMS Health's own extensive in-house information services. Published sources consulted include annual reports, analysts' reports, newswires, and the trade press.

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Reports

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

These databases are copyrighted by IMSworld Publications. No part of these databases may be copied or duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without prior written permission of IMSworld Publications.

If data is to be distributed under Dialog's Redistribution policy, distribution is restricted to within the geographic boundaries of the country where the data was first downloaded. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES may data which has been downloaded, distributed, or copied under this provision be sold or resold to a third party outside the user's company organization.

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BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

² All company profiles currently available are in English and are full-text records.

³ For searching, numeric entries are rounded down to the two left-most significant digits and zero-filled to the right. The actual word count displays in the record. Use numeric operators (>, <, >=, <=) to search a range of values, e.g., S WD>=450.

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Rates [top]

Rates For File: IMS Company Profiles[449]
Cost per DialUnit:                $20.00
Cost per minute:                   $3.92
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $21.00
ALERT (Monthly)                   $21.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                 *  $21.00
ALERT (Daily)                  *  $21.00
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $21.00
ALERT (Intraday)               *  $21.00
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $0.00    $0.00
     3    $0.00    $0.00
     4   $42.00   $42.00
     5   $42.00   $42.00
     6    $0.35    $0.35
     7   $42.00   $42.00
     8    $0.35    $0.35
     9   $42.00   $42.00
KWIC95    $2.00       NA
KWIC96    $1.50       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

Rates For File: IMS Company Profiles - subscribers[984]
Cost per DialUnit:                $19.06
Cost per minute:                   $3.52
Report Elements                    $0.00
LOB Reports                        $0.00
SHARE Reports                      $0.00
CROSSTAB Report Records            $0.00
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $0.35    $0.35
     3    $0.35    $0.35
     4   $11.00   $11.00
     5   $11.00   $11.00
     6    $0.35    $0.35
     7   $11.00   $11.00
     8    $0.35    $0.35
     9   $11.00   $11.00
KWIC95    $1.25       NA
KWIC96    $1.25       NA
REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00