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Thomas Publishing New York, NY Gratis, but registration required URL: http://www.tgrnet.com Last visited February 2003 Keywords Business-to-business marketing, Directories Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310480995
Thomas Global Register (TGR) is an international industrial suppliers directory that includes 570,000 manufacturers and distributors from 26 countries. It indexes 10,500 product and service categories in six different languages. TGR's stated mission is "to bring industrial buyers and sellers together on the Web to facilitate the purchasing process".
Thomas Publishing, an authoritative product information publisher, has compiled this Web-based database from its existing regional directories of the USA, Canada, Europe, and Mexico. The print registers' proven quality, authority, and coverage are demonstrated in this electronic service. TGR recently added 70,000 Japanese companies, indicating the company's aspiration to become a comprehensive international manufacturer information resource that is not limited solely to Europe and the Americas. As more companies in Asia are added to the database and Japanese and Chinese language versions become available, TGR will be a true "global" directory both in name and reality.
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