Business Contacts

BMO's Company Intelligence includes multinational company profiles and site networks; competitive intelligence covering sales volume, employee size, market share, ownership structure, foreign direct investment and project activity, and analysis of latest company developments.

Canadian Trade Index is a business directory of over 30,000 Canadian manufacturers, exporters, distributors and service. It covers more than 23,000 products and services. Each company listing contains company name, province telephone and fax numbers, business nature, and current export status. It is available in both printed and web-based format.

China Commodities Databank is one of the fundamental databanks of China Commodity Net funded by the Chinese government that covers business information on over 600,000 Chinese enterprises and 2,200,000 products, with illustrating pictures. Its searchable fields include product name, HS code and company name.

China Private Manufacturing Company Database provides profiles and financials on about 270,000 mainland China manufacturing enterprises with annual sales revenue of RMB 5 million. Search for company can be made by company name, product, company size, region, registration type and industry. Company details include contact information, founding time, number of employee, scale of enterprise, product and financial data.

Email Directory of Worldwide Importers provides email addresses of worldwide importing companies. Company details including company name, addresses, phone/fax number(s), products imported, contact person, and number of employees are also available on the database.

Euro Textile provides an access to European textile market place that contains business contacts of more than 5000 companies from 30 European countries and products such as clothing fabrics, accessories, house- and home textiles, contract furnishing, textile processing, fibres and yarns as well as design.

Foreign Companies in HK & China offers over 15,000 contacts at 5,000 foreign companies in Hong Kong and China. Company details include contact address, telephone/fax numbers, line of business, and parent companies.

HK-Australia Business Association Membership Directory is a full listing of its members. The Association, initiated by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, was established in 1987 aiming to develop a positive image for Hong Kong and to reinforce economic ties between Hong Kong SAR and Australia. Members are Australian businessmen with strong Hong Kong connections or interested in doing business with Hong Kong and Hong Kong organizations based in Australia.

HKTDC Global Contacts - Hong Kong provides a database of 100,000 Hong Kong business contacts, from manufacturers and exporters, to importers and service companies. It also includes details of 18,000 brands owned or represented by Hong Kong companies. For each company record, it covers data on the business contact, year of establishment, number of staff, products and services, areas of specialisation, related companies within and outside Hong Kong, and its target markets.

Hong Kong Industry Online, supplied by Hong Kong Productivity Council, covers Hong Kong trading firms, manufacturing companies and service providers. This database, in both English and Chinese, provides sourcing information for potential buyers identify their needed products and services from Hong Kong. Company information includes industry, product and service, number of employees, factory in China, type of ownership and awards/accreditation.

International Directory of Importers consists exclusively of worldwide importing firms. Company details include company name, addresses, phone/fax number(s), products imported, contact person, and number of employees.

Japanese Company Factfinder: Teikoku Databank contains information on over 235,000 Japanese companies. It provides company name, contact information, line of business, financial data, credit scoring, employment data and executive officer information.

Kompass Worldwide Database is an online business directory containing information on more than 2 million industrial/manufacturing companies and establishments of associated service industries in about 70 countries worldwide. Company details include contact address, telephone/fax numbers, web site, senior management names, business nature, financial information, and products/services.

Technical Textiles is an online market place providing more than 3,000 companies from 30 European countries with products such as fibres and yarns, braidings, nonwovens, woven and knitted fabrics, coated textiles, production methods as well as application areas, for example textile construction, car construction and aerospace, protective clothing, sports and leisure, textiles for the industry, medicine and hygiene.

US Importers & Exporters contains information on about 23,000 US exporters and 33,000 US importers. It provides company name, address, telephone/fax numbers, number of employees, value and number of shipments, ports of entry/exit, country of origin/destination, and bank reference.

Wanfang covers more than 160,000 Chinese companies. Company details include company name, key personnel, telephone and fax numbers, address, financial situation, products and specifications, and nature of business.

WLW Net is a directory of business contacts of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and service providers from 10 European countries including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Search can be made by product/service or company name. Company details include company name, contact address, telephone/fax numbers, e-mail and website.

Statistics

Business-Stat Online shows Hong Kong's merchandise trade flows with the rest of the world. It provides you easy-to-read tables tracking the quantity and value of more than 7,000 commodities coming from, or destined to, over 200 trading partners.

CEIC Asian Economic Database consists of over 10,000 economic data series of 15 Asian countries, of which most are monthly series with a history of more than 10 years. It includes statistical information on national accounts, production, construction and properties, employment, inflation, monetary, hotels and tourism, financial markets, government, consumer, international trade, interest rates, investment, and transport.

Global Market Information Database (GMID) provides global data on consumers, countries and markets, offering historical statistics and forecasts, information sources, brand and company information, plus market analysis on a range of product and service markets and analysis on consumer lifestyles.

HK Tourism Statistics is an online statistical service offered by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. It covers a wide range of statistical information, including visitor arrival statistics and profile, hotel supply situation and occupancy report, and tourist expenditure on shopping items.

Intra- and Extra-EU Trade provides monthly and annual figures of the European Union's external and internal trade. The EU's trade statistical system is in an eight-digit subdivision, with around 9,000 headings.

STAT-USA/Internet contains international trade data and export promotion information published by the US Department of Commerce to assist the US companies to promote their export trade. It brings together over 300,000 US government reports and statistical series, and includes market research reports, industry section analysis, country commercial guides, overseas trade contacts information, daily trade leads information on international procurements, and the latest US government economic news releases.

UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database is an online database provided by the United Nations Statistics Division with over 130 countries supply their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries. Quantities are, if provided by the country, converted into metric units. The data coverage starts from 1996 and goes up to the most recent completed year. Commodities are classified according to SITC and the Harmonized System (HS)

UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online is an online database provided by the United Nations covering economic, social and industrial production statistics from more than 200 countries and territories. Subjects included are population, food, trade, production, finance, national income, fuel imports, industrial output, world shipbuilding, and civil aviation traffic.

World Trade Atlas - China provides full information on import, export, and balance-of-trade between China and more than 200 nations. It also includes information on products, importing/exporting countries, market share and percentage change, quantity, average unit price, and Harmonized System (HS) Codes.

World Trade Atlas - HK provides data on import, export, and balance-of-trade between Hong Kong and more than 200 nations. It includes information on products, importing/exporting countries, market share and percentage change, quantity, average unit price, and Harmonized System (HS) Codes.

World Trade Atlas - US provides data on imports, exports, and balance of trade between the United States and more than 200 nations. Product and country information can be displayed from the most general to the most detailed level of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. It includes information on quantity, average unit price, and market share and percentage change.

Industry & Market Intelligence

Business Monitor Online is an online service offering daily news, risk ratings, macroeconomic forecasts, financial markets analysis on the world's emerging markets and key global markets, as well as worldwide company profiles and intelligence, such as top multinational networks, competitive intelligence, company news and analysis, etc.

China Infobank is an online database providing business and economic information about China, which includes business news, economic and trade statistics, laws and regulations, and reports of listed companies.

EBSCO Host Business Source Corporate contains full text from more than 2,800 quality magazines and journals. Information in this database dates back as far as 1965. Additional sources include over 1,400 country economic reports from EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group International, CountryWatch, etc.; 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor; and over 5,000 industry reports.

EBSCO Host McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.

EBSCO Host Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Factiva, from Dow Jones, provides global business news and information from more than 10,000 authoritative sources in many languages. It includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.

Global Market Information Database (GMID) provides global data on consumers, countries and markets, offering historical statistics and forecasts, information sources, brand and company information, plus market analysis on a range of product and service markets and analysis on consumer lifestyles.

ISI Emerging Markets (Greater China) is an online database providing news, industry analysis, company and financial data of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

ISI Emerging Markets (Vietnam) is an online database providing news, industry analysis, company and financial data of Vietnam.

iSinoLaw is a bilingual online database on legal and regulatory information on the Greater China region. It includes laws and regulations, judicial interpretations, intellectual property cases, criminal and civil case abstracts, lawyers' directory, and contract precedents.

iSinoLaw Weekly is a bilingual weekly journal on legal and regulatory information of China. It includes highlights of new laws as well as major laws and regulations of the week.

Market Research Report (STAT-USA/Internet) is an online database provided by the US Department of Commerce. It provides current market information and data on selected products and industries. Reports cover information on market access, top imports, end-users, trade barriers, market size and characteristics, competitive analysis, economic trends, trade events, and government regulations.

WiseSearch is a powerful search engine, which allows users to search all news information from hundreds of media sources in Wisers' high-capacity archive. Wisers' news archive is updated every day, direct from over 700 content providers, including all 18 Chinese and English newspapers of Hong Kong and other top tier newspapers, magazines, newswires, TVs and radios of Greater China. It covers content dating back to 1998.

E - Journals

EBSCO Host Business Source Corporate contains full text from more than 2,800 quality magazines and journals. Information in this database dates back as far as 1965. Additional sources include over 1,400 country economic reports from EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group International, CountryWatch, etc.; 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor; and over 5,000 industry reports.

EBSCO Host McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.

EBSCO Host Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

The Economist is a weekly journal on world business and current affairs, providing analysis on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country surveys.

ICIS Chemical Business is the new magazine for the chemical industry that has brought together ECN and ACN into one global publication. A unique magazine that gives you more worldwide coverage whilst retaining a strong regional focus. It will bring you objective coverage of the latest news, products & pricing plus detailed analysis of market trends and new projects.

Institutional Investor provides news, analysis, and rankings on financial market. Topics covered include banking and brokerage, corporate finance and capital markets, money management, pension funds, mutual funds, institutional trading, derivatives, and portfolio strategies.

Country Commercial Guides / Reports

Business Monitor Online is an online service offering daily news, risk ratings, macroeconomic forecasts, financial markets analysis on the world's emerging markets and key global markets, as well as worldwide company profiles and intelligence, such as top multinational networks, competitive intelligence, company news and analysis, etc.

Country Commercial Guides (STAT-USA/Internet) is an online service from the US Department of Commerce. It provides analyses on countries across the globe, including information on trade opportunities, political trends, demographic conditions, and socio-economic development.

EIU Business Intelligence covers worldwide collection of EIU newsletters, country profiles, and research reports on economic forecasts, political trends, foreign trade and investment, and market entry strategies.

ISI Emerging Markets (Greater China) is an online database providing news, industry analysis, company and financial data of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

ISI Emerging Markets (Vietnam) is an online database providing news, industry analysis, company and financial data of Vietnam.

Company Financial Information

GEM Listed Company Information contains corporate announcements, shareholder circulars and other corporate communication (e.g. annual reports and prospectuses) issued by the GEM listed issuers in the HKEx website.

HK Listed Company Information contains corporate announcements, shareholder circulars and other corporate communication (e.g. annual reports and prospectuses) issued by the Main Board and GEM listed issuers in the HKEx website.

Exhibitions / Tradeshows / Events

Exhibitions & Conferences in HK provides information on major exhibitions and conferences in Hong Kong organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and other organizers.

m+a Expo DataBase provides online access to information on tradeshow industry around the world, including more than 20,000 exhibitions, 6,000 organizers, 2,000 exhibition venues, and 7,000 tradeshow project managers.