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File Description [top]

Kompass Western Europe is a directory file that provides information for over 1.5 million companies in 19 European countries, with an emphasis on manufacturing, industrial, and associated service sectors.

The file includes data about companies from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kigndom. Records from Liechtenstein can be accessed using Expand CU=Furstentum Liechtenstein.

The file uses the Kompass WF.12 detailed classification system consisting of product and service descriptions and corresponding codes. See the Related Search Aids section for more information. Product names are searchable and displayable in the file in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Most records include standard business information, including names of key executives with their positions. Product listings have been enhanced for companies from some countries, such as Belgium, France, and Spain so that the key products are listed first. Because of this products are no longer necessarily in strict numerical order.

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Subject Coverage [top]

Information in each record includes:

• Company Name
• Address
• Telephone Number
• Fax Number
• Telex
• Description of Business
• Number of Employees
• Senior Executives
• Foreign Trade Status
• Products and Activities

Longer records may contain: quality assessments, export markets, email address, and financial information.

Dialog File Data [top]

Related Search Aids [top]

Kompass 5-Digit Product Code listings are provided in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian at http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/kompasscodes/

Database Content [top]

• Directories

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Directories

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• REPORT 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.

Information in the KOMPASS WESTERN EUROPE database is copyrighted by the Kompass Neuenschwander SA. The customer agrees to use the KOMPASS database for research purposes only and will not publish, broadcast, reproduce, make available or sell any material contained in the said database in any manner whatsoever nor will customer use such material in any other fashion which may infringe any third party's copyrights or proprietary interests in such material. KOMPASS uses its best endeavours to ensure that its database represents a true and fair representation of the original material from which the database is devised but the KOMPASS publishers shall not for any reason whatsoever be held responsible for any damage, loss, claim cost or other expense incurred by a subscriber as a result of its use or reliance upon the material contained in the KOMPASS database.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

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

² DE displays Description of Business text only.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

³ Numeric entries are indexed as complete numbers, rounded down to the two left-most digits. Use numeric operators (>, <, >=, <=) to search a range of values, e.g., S EM>=1K to retrieve all companies with 1 thousand or more employees.

⁴ The following entries are searchable with FT= EXPORTER, IMPORTER.

⁵ Product codes are cascaded and can also be searched at the two-digit or five-digit levels, e.g., S PC=42; S PC=42460.

⁶ The (S) operator can be used to link Product Activity with a specific Product Name or Product Code (e.g., S PC=42460(S)PX=PRODUCER). Entries in this field are: Producer; Distributor; Service; Importer; Exporter.

⁷ The following options are searchable with SF=: DIVISION, HEADQUARTERS.

⁸ Only the 2 to 3 digit country code is searchable; the TE display code displays the entire telephone number.

⁹ Numeric entries are indexed as complete numbers, rounded down to the two left-most digits. Use numeric operators ( >, <, >=, <= ) to search a range of values, e.g., S SL>=1K to retrieve companies with sales of 1 thousand or more.

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SORT [top]

RANK [top]

REPORT OPTIONS [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Kompass Western Europe[590]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $9.00
Cost per minute:                   $2.17
Report Elements                    $0.08
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
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     6    $0.43    $0.43
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KWIC96    $0.43       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