Vendor's Corner
LexisNexis offers Canadians, COMPANY DOSSIER
 

LexisNexis has announced an agreement with Infomart, the online information arm of Southam (recently purchased by CanWest Global), for the license of 15 Canadian newspapers, including: the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun; Calgary Herald and Edmonton Sun.

The publishing company has also secured Infomart's agreement to sell Company Dossier in all markets (which was not possible under previous LexisNexis agreements with Infomart) - a feature in LexisNexis that generates a report from information within the LexisNexis system about particular companies.

Company Dossier provides users with a way to maximize their intelligence-gathering efforts - increasing productivity while helping them attain the targeted, relevant information they need. It offers instant desktop access to extensive data from a variety of resources on more than 500,000 companies.

"It is a significant productivity tool for our customers, as gathering this data by traditional means would require a large number of searches," said LexisNexis Butterworths (Canada) president, John Yates.

Users can tap into information on a company's financial and legal history, competitors, its products and brands, research and analyst reports, local and regional news, and intellectual property holdings.
 

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