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Database: PROMT

PROMT (Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology) is a multiple-industry database that features broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for approximately 60 manufacturing and service service industries. Updated daily, PROMT is comprised of abstracts and full-text records from the world's important trade and business journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, research studies, investment analyst reports, corporate news releases, and corporate annual reports. PROMT abstracts and full-text records cover the global events and activities of public and private companies throughout the world. Products, events, geographic regions, companies, indexing terms, chemical names, CAS Registry Numbers^®, abstracts, and full text are searchable. An online thesaurus is available in the Corporate Name (/CO) field.

File Data

• 1978 to the present
• More than 13,970,900 records (3/07)
• Updated daily with approximately 2,500 records

Subject Coverage

Information includes:

• Capital expenditures
• Financial reporting
• Industry and business issues
• Management procedures
• Market plans and strategies
• Market size/shares/trends
• Mergers and acquisitions
• New products and technologies
• New and expanded facilities
• Product sales and consumption
• Research and development

• Advertising
• Aerospace and Aircraft
• Agriculture
• Apparel
• Automotive
• Biotechnology
• Chemicals
• Communications
• Computers
• Construction
• Defense Products and Systems
• Electronics
• Fabricated Metal Products
• Financial Services
• Food and Beverages
• Furniture
• Industrial Machinery
• Instrumentation
• Medical and Health Services
• Mining
• Petroleum and Energy Products
• Pharmaceuticals
• Plastics
• Publishing
• Pulp and Paper
• Rubber
• Software
• Textiles
• Tobacco
• Transportation
• Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Wood

Sources

• Annual reports
• Business journals
• Investment analysts' reports
• Market research studies
• News releases
• News services
• Newsletters
• Newspapers
• Trade journals

Database Producer

Gale Group
27500 Drake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
USA
Phone:    (800) 877-GALE
Fax:      (248) 699-8093
Internet: http://www.galegroup.com

Usage Terms

Usage terms for PROMT are detailed in the CAS Information Use Policies.

For more detailed information, view the STN Database Summary Sheet.