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Database Description

Gale Group Trade & Industry Database^TM is a multi-industry database covering international company, industry, product, and market information, with strong coverage of such areas as management techniques, financial earnings, economic climate, product evaluations, and executive changes. Unique industry subfiles allow users to narrow or broaden their searches to one or more groups of industry specific publications. Gale Group Trade & Industry Database complements Gale Group PROMT^® (File 16) by providing in-depth coverage of over 65 major industries, including full-text coverage of management, economic, and other professional journals. Abstracts are available for some records and the complete text is fully searchable for many records from 1983 to the present.

Subject Coverage

Gale Group Trade & Industry Database provides strong international coverage of over 65 major industries, including automotive, defense, chemicals, electronics, advertising, and marketing, retailing, telecommunications, insurance, metals, and oils. In addition to covering information on companies, industries, products, and markets, Gale Group Trade & Industry Database features excellent coverage of:

• Management theory and practice
• Company stock performance
• Professional business activities
• Industry Overviews
• Reviews
• Economic and demographic information
• Financial exchange information
• Biographies
• Company securities transactions
• Product evaluations

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