SOUTH AMERICAN BUSINESS INFORMATION [617, 817]

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	617, 817
South American Business Information

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: March 29, 2006

Bluesheet Contents PDF version

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

File Description [top]

South American Business Information (SABI) is an international news service that covers the South American market and Mexico. SABI provides extensive and comprehensive abstracts of articles from the main business Latin American newspapers. This daily newswire service covers newspapers, business and trade journals from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico.

South American Business Information is contained in two databases: Files 617 and 817. File 617 contains current data beginning in July 1999. File 817 contains archive data spanning from July 1996 through February 1999. OneSearch/DIALINDEX category SABI may be used to begin both files simultaneously; i.e., BEGIN SABI.

Tips [top]

USE FILES 617 AND 817

to find information on companies, industries, and markets in South America.

USE SABI

to search Files 617 and 817 simultaneously in OneSearch or DIALINDEX

BEGIN SABI BEGIN 411; SF SABI

USE STANDARDIZED INFOSORT TERMS

(in File 617) to search Company Names (/CO, CO=), Geographic Names (/GN, GN=), Event Names (/DE, EN=), or Industry Names (/PN, PN=).

USE RANK EN

to identify specific events or business activities to narrow a search.

SELECT BANKS AND GN=ARGENTINA RANK EN

Subject Coverage [top]

SABI provides coverage of a broad range of business topics and industries in South America including:

Banking and Finance
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Energy, Oil, & Gas
Finance
Food Products
Information Technology
Mining
Pension Funds
Pharmaceuticals
Telecommunications
Textiles
Transportation

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	July 1999 to the present (File 617) 1996 to June 1999 (File 817)
File Size:	130,183 records as of March 2006 (File 617) 23,000 records (File 817)
Update Frequency:	Daily Approximately 80 records per day (File 617) Closed (File 817)

Database Content [top]

Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Newswires

Geographic Coverage [top]

International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
GENERALN	General News Files
LATINNEW	Latin American News
MANEWS	Mergers and Acquisitions News
MERGEACQ	Mergers and Acquisitions
NEWSCO	Company News
NEWSWIRE	Newswires
SABI	South American Business Databases
TICKERNE	Company News Files with Ticker Symbols

Contact [top]

Questions concerning file content should be directed to The Knowledge Center at Dialog.

Dialog
11000 Regency Park
Cary, NC 27511

Telephone:	1-800-3DIALOG
E-Mail:	dialogcustomer@thomson.com

Questions concerning file content may also be directed to:

SABI
Av Princesa Isabel 150-Sala 401, Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22011-010
Brazil

Telephone:	+5521 2275 5320
Fax:	+5521 2542 8102
E-Mail:	contact@sabi.com.br

Terms and Conditions [top]

South American Business Information is copyrighted by South American Business Information via Comtex. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 617 [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 617:South American Business Info.`
	`(c) 1999 SABI. All rts. reserv.`

	`00010129 19990701182U6537 (THIS IS THE ABSTRACT)`
/TI	`Argentina: Delphi seeks location for plant`
JN=	`El Cronista`
DY=,MO=,PD=,PY=	`Thursday, July 1, 1999 20:12 EDT`
JC=,LA=,RT=	`JOURNAL CODE: WECR LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RECORD TYPE: ABSTRACT`
DT=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: NEWSWIRE`
	`WORD COUNT: 149`

	`ABSTRACT:`
/AB	`Delphi Automotive Systems earmarked investments of US$45mil to set up`
	`an air conditioning compressors plant in the Mercosur trade block with`
	`capacity for 500,000 units py and is seeking a location for it in`
	`either Brazil or Argentina. The company runs three sites in Argentina,`
	`two plants at Cordoba, and another at Tierra del Fuego and is`
	`registering a slowdown in their output, as consequence of the`
	`decreasing domestic automotive market. In an unrelated issue the`
	`foundry auto parts company Corni Fundiciones, controlled by the`
	`automotive assembler Sevel, will close down its plant at El Talar,`
	`Buenos Aires province. Prior to that Diasa, that assembles Uno and Duna`
	`car models is to close down its plant at Berazategui, Buenos Aires.`
	`-0-`

	`Source: El Cronista Page: 21 Date: June 30, 1999 Country: Argentina`
	`Product: Auto Electrical Equipment Company: Delphi Automotive Systems`
	`Event: Plant and Equipment SABI (South American Business Information)`

/CO,CO=	`COMPANY NAMES: DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS`
/GN,GN=	`GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: ARGENTINA ; MERCOSUR ; SOUTH AMERICA ; AMERICAS ;`
	`LATIN AMERICA`
/PN,PN=	`INDUSTRY NAMES: CARS ; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY`
/DE,EN=	`EVENT NAMES: PLANT AND EQUIPMENT`

SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 817

	`DIALOG(R)File 817: South American Business Info.`
	`(c) 1999 SABI. All rts. reserv.`

	`100058 SUPPLIER NUMBER: 163u0751 (THIS IS THE ABSTRACT)`
/TI	`BRAZIL: INCREASING SALES VIDEO TAPES`
JN=	`Gazeta Mercantil`
PD=,PY=	`June 10, 1996`
CN=	`COUNTRY: Brazil`
DT=,LA=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: NEWSWIRE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH`
RT=	`RECORD TYPE: ABSTRACT`
	`WORD COUNT: 114`


/AB,/XT	`TEXT:`
	`Abril Video, a Walt Disney licenced company in Brazil`
	`is launching a new video tape, the "101 Dalmatas"`
	`expecting to sell 400,000 copies. Abril Vidio has a`
	`80% share in the sell through segment, and plans sales`
	`of 3mil tapes with several titles in Brazil during 1996.`
	`Over 1995 the company has sold 2.3mil tapes to a booming`
	`market. King Lion has sold 900,000 copies, White Snow`
	`400,000, and Mowgli 350,000 copies. Warner Home Video,`
	`the leading company in video tapes rental business, is`
	`also moving into the sell through competing with Abril`
	`Video. Plans are to sell 200 - 250,000 copies of several`
	`titles and reach a turnover of R$5mil during 1996.`

/CO,CO=	`COMPANY NAMES: WALT DISNEY CO; ABRIL VIDEO; WARNER HOME`
	`VIDEO`
/IN,IN=	`INDUSTRY NAMES: MOTION PICTURE & TV DISTRIBUTION;`
	`RECORDS & TAPES`
EN=	`EVENT NAMES: MARKET INFORMATION`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS:BRAZIL;BUSINESS;MARKET;NEWS;NEWSGRID;`
	`PRODUCTIVITY;SALES;SHARES;VIDEO`
TS=	`TICKER SYMBOLS:DIS`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S AUTO?(W)PARTS
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S AUTOMOTIVE(W)MARKET/AB
/CO	CO	Company Name^1,2	Word	S DELPHI/CO
/DE	DE	Descriptor^2,3	Word & Phrase	S EQUIPMENT/DE S "PLANT AND EQUIPMENT"/DE
/GN	GN	Geographic Name^2,4	Word	S ARGENTINA/GN
/IN	IN	Industry Name^2,5	Word	S RECORDS(1N)TAPES/IN
/PN	PN	Industry Name^2,4	Word	S AUTOMOTIVE/PN
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S DELPHI(W)SEEKS(W)LOCATION/TI

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

²Contains INFOSORT terms (see HELP INFOSORT).

³Also /DF.

⁴Available only in File 617.

⁵Available only in File 817.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	Supplier Accession Number	Phrase	S AA=I7FE19F4084FF11D9974EB90?
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
CN=	CN	Country Name⁵	Phrase	S CN=BRAZIL
CO=	CO	Company Name^1,2	Phrase	S CO=DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS?
DT=	DT	Document Type	Phrase	S DT=NEWSWIRE
DY=	DY	Publication Day⁴	Phrase	S DY=THURSDAY
EN=	EN	Event Name^1,2	Phrase	S EN="PLANT AND EQUIPMENT"
GN=	GN	Geographic Name^1,2,4	Phrase	S GN=SOUTH AMERICA
IN=	IN	Industry Name^1,2,5	Phrase	S IN=RECORDS & TAPES
JC=	JC	Journal Code⁴	Phrase	S JC=WECR
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=EL CRONISTA
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
MO=	MO	Publication Month⁴	Phrase	S MO=JULY
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19990701
PN=	PN	Industry Name^1,2,4	Phrase	S PN=AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1999
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=ABSTRACT
None	SO	Source Information
TS=	TS	Ticker Symbol⁵	Phrase	S TS=DIS
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=19990701
None	WD	Word Count

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
Sets and terms can be restricted by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /AB,/CO,/DE,/DF,/IN,/TI,/XT (e.g.,S S2/TI), as well as by the following features:
/	DIALOG Accession Number	S S3/0010000-9999999
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2000

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AA, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S1/ALL/PD PRINT S5/5/1-24/TI

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: DE	RANK DE

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables.	TYPE S3/CO,PD/1-5

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, and Word Count
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4	--	Bibliographic Citation, Abstract, and Word Count
5	--	Full Record
6	Short	Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7	Long	Bibliographic Citation, Abstract, and Word Count
8	Free	Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing
9	Full	Full Record
K	--	KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number	TYPE 1003340/5 DISPLAY 0500509/TI,CO PRINT 0500985/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: South American Business Information[617]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $2.96
Cost per minute:                   $1.08
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $12.57
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $22.47
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.12
ALERT (Weekly)                    $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $3.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $3.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints       20

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.51    $1.51
     3    $1.51    $1.51
     4    $1.84    $1.84
     5    $3.84    $3.84
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $1.84    $1.84
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.84    $3.84
KWIC95    $0.11       NA
KWIC96    $0.12       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: South American Business Information[817]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $2.96
Cost per minute:                   $1.08
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.51    $1.51
     3    $1.51    $1.51
     4    $1.84    $1.84
     5    $3.84    $3.84
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $1.84    $1.84
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.84    $3.84
KWIC95    $0.11       NA
KWIC96    $0.12       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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