Net gains, March - April 2003
A service for Members, designed to direct you towards major web sites that will be of value to your company. Only a small proportion of useful links can be listed in the Bulletin. For more links, select Information & know-how from the top of the screen then Links to other sites.
Business information
There are so many useful websites for business that we are giving you a further set of sites which we believe you will find indispensable.
Business Information on the Internet
Compiled by Karen Blakeman, this site gives links to a wide variety of business information sites in fourteen categories ranging from stock market figures and company financials and annual reports to trade directories and direct marketing.
A good place to start when looking for business information.
www.rba.co.uk/welcome.htm
Best of Biz
This site, developed by the London Business School, includes a series of resource guides, management theory and business practice information, briefings on latest management ideas and current awareness. It contains a mixture of business and management information.
www.bestofbiz.com/
Reuters
This site gives you the latest news on financial markets and news worldwide. It also covers breaking news in politics, technology and science.
www.reuters.com/
Kelly's Directory
This is a website allowing you to search for information on companies throughout the UK. You can search by product/service, company, tradename, town street and postcode.
www.kellys.co.uk/search.asp
Trade Associations Forum
A searchable list of Trade Associations is included in this site, including contact details for each association, and links to their websites.
www.taforum.org/
MarketResearch.com
This is a site containing over 50,000 market surveys from 350 leading market research companies. It is possible to get a list of reports, by searching in the categories provided, and then buy either the whole document or a slice, but the information given is not as detailed as that available from Profound before purchase.
www.marketresearch.com/
Trade Partners UK
Formerly named TradeUK, this is a UK government site to assist companies to become suppliers for overseas products. It contains over 60,000 names and addresses and is searchable by company name and product or service.
www.tradeuk.com/
