The most comprehensive source for detailed information on nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Every entry offers a wealth of valuable data, typically including the organization’s complete name, address and phone number together with the primary official’s name and title; fax number, when available; founding date, purpose, activities and dues; narrative description of association’s purpose and activities; national and international conferences; and more.

Also featured is an alphabetical name and keyword index so you can quickly locate the name and address of the organization you need to contact without ever having to consult the main entry. Encyclopedia Of Associations has two companion volumes: Volume 2, Geographic and Executive Indexes and Volume 3, Supplement, which updates contact information from the previous edition and provides coverage of new or newly identified associations and projects.

Readers may now easily identify new distribution channels or prime licensing opportunities using American Wholesalers And Distributors Directory. Discover more than 25,000 large and small wholesalers and distributors throughout the U.S and Puerto Rico.

You’ll easily find the name and address of the organization, fax number, SIC code, principal product lines, total number of employees, estimated annual sales volume and principal officers. You can access information four easy ways: By broad subject terms derived from each company’s principal product line. By Standard Industrial Classification code (SIC index). By state and city (geographic index.) By company name (alphabetic index).

Business Rankings Annual helps librarians answer reference questions related to rankings information.

Working from a bibliographic file we have built up over the years, we have culled thousands of items from periodicals, newspapers, financial services, directories, statistical annuals and other printed material. The "top 10" from each of these rankings appears in this volume, grouped under standard subject headings for easy browsing.

Readers can quickly locate all rankings in which a given company, person or product appears by consulting the reference’s comprehensive index. In addition, a complete listing of sources used to compile Business Rankings Annual is provided in the bibliography.

Each edition includes a cumulative index, published separately.

In an increasingly complex and sophisticated marketplace, businesses are spending more on consulting services than ever before. Keep up with this healthy, growing and dynamic segment of the U.S. and Canadian economies with Consultants & Consulting Organizations Directory.

You’ll find complete contact information as well as full, clear and concise descriptions of each organization’s activities. Each entry furnishes: Street addresses or P.O. boxes for headquarters and branches, Phone, fax and toll-free numbers, E-mail addresses and Web sites, Notation of service to international clients, Notation of mergers and former names, and much more.

Encyclopedia Of Business Information Sources, Thirty-Second Edition, now includes nearly 25,000 citations, dealing with more than 1,100 business, financial, and industrial topics. The subjects cover a variety of business-related concerns, such as Business Functions--Accounting; Administration; Personnel Management; Computer-Related Subjects--Computer Graphics; Computer Software Industry; Local Area Networks; Foreign Trade--International Marketing; Latin American Markets; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Information Industry Topics--Electronic Publishing; Internet; and Multimedia.

Types of resources covered include Abstracts and Indexes, Almanacs and Yearbooks, Bibliographies, Biographical Sources, CD-ROMs, Databases, Directories, E-Books, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, Financial Ratios, Handbooks and Manuals, Internet Databases, Online Databases, Periodicals and Newsletters, Price Sources, Research Centers and Institutes, Statistics Sources, Trade and Professional Societies, and more.

Provides current information on over 20,000 publishers and distributors in an A-Z arrangement first by publishers, then by distributors.

Publishers Directory entries contain full organization contact information, including corporate e-mails and websites when provided. In addition, most entries feature a wealth of descriptive information (when available), including principal officers with personal e-mails; year founded; annual sales; number of titles per year, including an estimate for current year; total title count; discount policy; percentage of sales breakdown; descriptive text; subjects covered; and detailed returns policy. Users can see alternate formats offered, including audio, Braille, calendars, CD-ROM, diskette, DVD, large print, microform, online, posters/printers, and video.

Volume 3 continues with three indexes: Subject Index; Geographic Index; and Publishers, Imprints, and Distributors Index.