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Company Directories

D and B Europa, annual

Location: REF HG 4132 .Z5 D86x Volumes I, II, and III offer directory information on 60,000 leading European companies, including executives, year started, principle business activity, SIC number, net worth, number of employees, annual sales, export sales, sales ranking, and employee ranking. Volume IV contains various rankings, e.g. top 5,000 companies by sales and an index. Also includes two statistical profiles of Europe as a whole.

Hoover's Handbook of World Business, annual

Location: REF HG 4009 .H66 1998 Rankings of international companies and profiles of 250 businesses "of global importance," with an overview, history, key financials (10 years), officers and key competitors. The Web site offers a more limited version of the profiles, called "Company Capsules." Complete profiles are available only to subscribers.

Mergent International Manual, annual

Location: REF HG 4009 .M66 Financial and business information on more than 6,700 foreign corporations in 107 countries, including company history, description of business and property, and other key data.

Principal International Businesses, annual

Location: REF HF 54 .U5 P74 Information on approximately 53,000 leading companies from 140 countries; includes sales volume, SIC codes, lines of business, import/export data. Arranged by country, with SIC and business name indexes.

World Chamber of Commerce Directory, annual

Location: REF HF 294 .W75 Lists U.S. Chambers of Commerce by state and abroad; State Boards of Tourism; convention and visitor's bureaus, economic development organizations; Canadian Chambers of Commerce; foreign embassies in the U.S. and U.S. embassies abroad.

Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, annual

Location: REF HG 3882 .B299x Provides detailed economic data on all of the member nations of the International Monetary Fund. Part One provides detailed financial information on imports and exports, investments domestic and abroad, capital and reserve funds, and more. Part Two provides simplified tables of the same information. Part Three lists data sources and describes the methodologies and practices employed in compiling this information.

The CIA World Factbook

Location: REF D 31 .W6x A guide with current information on individual countries' geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

Demographic Yearbook, annual

Location: REF HA 17 .D45 Basic demographic statistics (population, life expectancy, births, marriages) for over 200 countries.

The Illustrated Book of World Rankings

Location: REF HA 155 .K87 1997 Compares and ranks 200 nations of the world in over 200 categories, e.g.. military expenditures, GNP, GNP per capita, poverty, terms of trade, import and export growth rate, demographic statistics, consumption, media; country profiles include pertinent statistics and rankings.

Statistical Yearbook, annual

Location: REF HA 12.5 U.63 Statistics on all U.N. Countries: population, manpower, agricultural and industrial production, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, communications, foreign trade, consumption, science and technology. More recent figures available in U.N. Monthly Bulletin of Statistics.

The Europa World Yearbook

Location: REF JN 1 .E85 Frequency: annual Country data includes recent history, economic conditions and statistics, government, political conditions; lists leading newspapers, periodicals, publications, radio and TV, trade and industrial organizations. Usually current information; sources of statistics indicated.

Business Etiquette/International

International Business Etiquette: Europe

Location: REF HF 5389.3 E85 S23 1999

Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to do Business in Sixty Countries

Location: REF HF 5389 .M67 1994

Merriam-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications

Location: REF HF 54.5 .A86 1994 Provides guidance for communicating in foreign countries.

Put Your Best Foot Forward: Europe

Location: REF BJ 2193 .B675 1995x Manners and customs for travelers to European countries.

Country Studies/Area Handbooks, varying dates

Location: Government Documents Area, D 101.22) Individual book length studies of countries. Background summary and basic facts about social, economic and political institutions for each country; some projections of anticipated change; includes bibliography; various publication dates, some much more current than others.

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