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Database Description

Business & Industry^TM (B&I) database contains information with facts, figures, and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, markets products for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B&I coverage concentrates on leading trade magazines and newsletters, the general business press, regional newspapers and international business dailies. The database includes abstracts and fulltext of relevant articles, and is enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly specific retrieval of relevant articles.

Subject Coverage

Business & Industry^TM is used when searching for information on companies, industries, markets and products. The type of information that can be specifically retrieved include:

market size, market share, shipments, users, test marketing, company and industry forecasts, trends, demographics, company strategy, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatization, foreign investment, capacity, product development, introductions, and recalls and information dealing with markets, such as the African-American market, Green market, Asian-American market, youth market, and baby boomers.

All major industries are covered in B&I including advertising, aerospace and defense, agriculture, apparel, automotive, biotechnology, chemical, computers and software, electronics, energy, fast foods, financial services, food and beverages, furniture, health care services, information, insurance, mining, oil and gas, plastics, pulp and paper, retailing, telecommunications, and transportation.

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Copyright 2004 the Gale Group. Business & Industry database is copyrighted by the Gale Group. All rights reserved. Selected articles contained in the database are copyrighted by individual publishers whose names are included with each appropriate record. Content from this database is provided for internal use as a single copy by the customer or patron and may only be duplicated, stored in machine readable form or optical form or redistributed with the proper license agreements from The Gale Group or its agents, or through Dialog's ERA program. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.

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