...(Goes) beyond the usual business listing service to provide important criteria and details essential for long-term business analysis and industry trends --Midwest Review of Books
...An outstanding, comprehensive analysis of e-commerce and Internet business, packed with charts, tables and ... statistics... A welcome addition to the business literature as a source of essential, unique, well-respected, highly accessible reference material. --CHOICE magazine
The comparative nature of this resource is one of its strongest features, enabling users to make across-the-board and across-the-country comparisons of company expenditures, growth and other key statistical areas... Plunkett's Almanac is a unique adjunct business reference source. Several times in the course of performing business reference service, this reviewer gave her copy to her patrons researching companies included in this book. All patrons were extremely pleased with (this) information...much of it being information which they had been unable to locate elsewhere... The reviewer recommends that the Almanac be placed on standing order, if possible, for all business reference collections that take pride in being patron-responsive. The... price is justified for the wealth of information provided in this first of its kind reference... --Indiana University-Kelley School of Business
Product Description
This new almanac will be your ready-reference guide to the E-Commerce and Internet Business worldwide! In one carefully-researched volume, you'll get all of the data you need on E-Commerce and Internet Industries, including: complete E-Commerce statistics and trends; Internet research and development; Internet growth companies; online services and markets; bricks and clicks and other online retailing strategies; emerging e-commerce technologies; Internet and World Wide Web usage trends; PLUS, in-depth profiles of over 400 E-Commerce and Internet companies: our own unique list of companies that are the leaders in this field. Here you'll find complete profiles of the hot companies that are making news today, the largest, most successful corporations in all facets of the E-Commerce Business, from online retailers, to manufacturers of software and equipment for Internet communications, to Internet services providers and much more. Our corporate profiles include executive contacts, growth plans, financial records, address, phone, fax, and much more. This innovative book offers unique information, all indexed and cross-indexed. Our industry analysis section covers business to consumer, business to business, online financial services, and technologies as well as Internet access and usage trends. The book includes numerous statistical tables covering such topics as e-commerce revenues, access trends, global Internet users, etc. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.
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