Locate Products by a Specific Company in a Technical Industry?

TOPIC: To find out how many products a specific company has in a particular industry, we can search by company to find brands the company has in that industry. Brands & Their Companies (File 116) is a good starting point. This database contains over 440,000 consumer brand names and their owners or distributors.

In this example we will select the electrical and scientific apparatus industry and see what products from the company Edcon we can find in this industry.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 116
VISUAL EXPAND IN=ELECT
Check appropriate entries and click OK
SELECT S1 AND CO=EDCON?
TYPE S2/8/ALL
Click Links > Display > Type Full Record

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 116, Brands & Their Companies. 2. VISUAL EXPAND using the IN= prefix for industry and a shortened form of "electric" to view the beginning of that part of the index. 3. Check appropriate entries and click OK.
4. Combine Set 1 (S1) with the company name using the CO= prefix. Use truncation (?) to retrieve all forms of the company name.
5. TYPE all records using Format 8 to see a description of the product.   6. To see the complete record, click Links > Display > Type Full Record.       Note: Some records are omitted from this display.
The complete record displays.                 Note the company name and address is given.

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Stock #: 53714; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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