557
Mergent™ Company News Reports

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: March 29, 2006

Bluesheet Contents     PDF version

File Description Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort Rates
Subject Coverage Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
Tips Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Report Options
Print Counterparts Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Predefined Format Options


File Description [top]

MergentTM Company News Reports offers current, comprehensive coverage of business news and financial information on nearly 9,000 publicly-held U.S. corporations, which include:

  • Industrial companies
  • Banks
  • Savings and Loan Institutions
  • Insurance companies
  • Real estate companies
  • Public utilities
  • Air and Rail companies
  • Bus and Trucking companies

Also included are selected non-U.S. companies. Information for the file is taken from annual reports, quarterly reports, news releases, prospectuses, and newswire services.

Some records in the file do not contain news, but remain in the database because they include valuable address and contact information. Use the /NEWS limit to receive records that only contain new items.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 557

to find current news items on nearly 9,000 U.S. and selected non-U.S. companies.

USE /CO OR CO=

to find companies of interest.

USE REPORT

to arrange output in tabular format.

USE /NEWS

to restrict retrieval to records having news items.



Subject Coverage [top]

  • Company Name
  • Address and Telephone
  • Fax Number
  • CUSIP and Mergent Company Numbers
  • Web Address
  • Stock Exchange
  • Ticker Symbol
  • Fiscal Year End
  • News Report

Dialog customers outside North America can also search File 555, Mergent Company Profiles, for more detailed company information; customers in North America can search File 556, Mergent Company Snapshots for additional company information.



Print Counterparts [top]

  • None


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: 1996 to the present
File Size: Over 612,652 records as of February 2006
Update Frequency: Daily


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Reports
  • Press Releases
  • SEC Filings
  • Annual Reports


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available
  • Graduate Education Program
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available
  • REPORT Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
MANEWS Mergers and Acquisitions News
MERGEACQ Mergers and Acquisitions
NEWSCO Company News
NEWSDAIL News, Current - Daily Updates
TICKERNE Company News Files with Ticker Symbols


Contact [top]

Mergent Company News Reports is produced by Mergent. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Mergent
Attention: Peter J. Healy
60 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010

Telephone: 212-413-7739
800 Line: 800-342-5647 x7739
E-Mail: Pete.Healy@fisonline.com


Terms and Conditions [top]

The Mergent Databases are copyrighted by MergentTM.

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

The Database(s) is (are) copyrighted by MergentTM, the owner of all rights therein. Subscriber shall not make any printed, machine-readable or other copies of the Database(s) as a whole or of any information forming a part thereof or of any combinations of derivations based upon the Databases except with the prior written consent of Mergent. Use of any of the Databases shall constitute acceptance of the terms and conditions specified on the current electronic Bluesheet relating to the Database. If Subscriber wishes to copy or distribute the Database(s) or any part thereof or create combinations or derivations based thereon and copy or distribute same, Subscriber shall seek Mergent prior written permission by contacting the publisher, Mergent.


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 557:Mergent Company News 
    (c)2001. Mergent.   All rts. reserv. 
     
    00002093 
  CO, /CO=  Bombardier Inc. 
     
  AD=  800 Rene-Levesque Blvd. West 
  CY=, ST=, ZP=  Montreal, Quebec  H3B 1Y8 
  CN=  CANADA 
     
    TELEPHONE:              514 861-9481 
    FAX:                    514 861-2420 
    WEB ADDRESS:            www.bombardier.com 
  CU=  CUSIP NUMBER:           09775150 
  EX=  STOCK EXCHANGE:         TSE 
  TS=  TICKER SYMBOL:          BBD A 
     
     
    NEWS REPORT: 
  /TX  News  Report:  Contracts  Co. announced its subsidiary Bombardier Aerospace 
    signed  a  contract  with  the  United  Kingdom's  Royal Air Force (RAF) to 
    provide  aircraft  and  services  in support of primary flying training.The 
    light  Aircraft  Flying  Task (LAFT) program was developed under the U.K.'s 
    Private  Finance  Initiative  and is worth in excess of $252 million (# 101 
    million)  over  a  10-year period. Under the contract Bombardier Aerospace, 
    Defence  Services  will  provide  a fleet of Grob 115E aircraft and related 
    services  to  the University air Squadrons and Air Experience Flights at 13 
    locations  throughout  the  U.K.  In  total,  Co.  will  be responsible for 
    providing an estimated 50,000 flying hours per year. 
     
  PD=, PY=  DATE OF NEWS REPORT:             April 1, 1999 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
REPORT
(FIELD
LENGTH)
FIELD NAME

INDEXING

SELECT EXAMPLES

None None None All Basic Index Fields Word S FLEET(3N)AIRCRAFT
/CO CO CO (32) Company Name1 Word S BOMBARDIER/CO
/TX TX None News Text2 Word S BOMBARDIER(W)AEROSPACE/TX

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

2 Not present in all records.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
REPORT
(FIELD
LENGTH)
FIELD NAME

INDEXING

SELECT EXAMPLES

None A1 A1 (32) Street Address
AD= AD None Address Word S AD=(RENE(W)LEVESQUE)
None AZ None DIALOG Accession Number
CN= CN CN (13) Country Name Phrase S CN=CANADA
CO= CO CO (32) Company Name1 Phrase S CO=BOMBARDIER?
CU= CU CU (13) CUSIP Number2 Phrase S CU=09775150
CY= CY CY (20) City Phrase S CY=MONTREAL
DT= DT None Document Type Phrase S DT=COMPANY
None EL None Email2
EX= EX EX (10) Stock Exchange Phrase S EX=TSE
None FX None Fax Number2
LA= LA None Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
PD= PD None Report Publication Date Phrase S PD=19990401
PY= PY None Year of News Phrase S PY=1999
RT= RT None Record Type Phrase S RT=DIRECTORY
ST= ST ST (7) State/Province Phrase S ST=QUEBEC
None TE None Telephone
TS= TS TS (10) Ticker Symbol Phrase S TS=BBD A
None UR None Website
ZP= ZP ZP (11) Postal Code Phrase S ZP=H3B 1Y8


LIMIT [top]

Sets and terms may be restricted by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CO, /DE, /TX (e.g., S S5/DE).
SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/NEWS Record Contains News Item S S1/NEWS
/NONUS News Focus is on a non-U.S. Company S S1/NONUS
/US News Focus is on a U.S. Company S S1/US


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
CN, CO, CY, PD, PY, ST, TS, ZP SORT S13/ALL/PD
PRINT S5/5/1-24/CO


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK CN S3


REPORT OPTIONS [top]

Output can be displayed in table format. REPORT codes with field lengths in parentheses are listed in the Search Options tables. Default table width is 72 characters; use SET H 132 to set maximum table width. REPORT S2/CO,CU,TS/1-10


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output. TYPE S3/CO,ST/1-10


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
DIALOGWEB
FORMAT
RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record
3 Medium Company Name, Address, Stock Exchange, Ticker Symbol, and Dates
4 -- Company Name, Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers, and Web Address
5 -- Full Record
6 Free Company Name, Ticker Symbol, and Dates
7 Long Full Record except Text
8 Short Company Name
9 Full Full Record


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 0012891/5
DISPLAY 0055754/CO,AD
PRINT 0013964/5


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Mergent Company News Reports[557]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $4.68
Cost per minute:                   $1.08
Report Elements                    $0.10
Rank Elements                      $0.20
ALERT (default)                    $3.42
ALERT (Monthly)                    $6.85
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *   $5.35
ALERT (Weekly)                     $3.42
ALERT (Daily)                      $1.18
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *   $3.42
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $1.18
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.14    $1.14
     3    $0.60    $0.60
     4    $0.87    $0.87
     5    $1.14    $1.14
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $1.14    $1.14
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $1.14    $1.14
KWIC95    $0.00       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
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