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Datamonitor Consumer Goods Research Now Available on Profound

London, England and Cary, N.C., 22nd February, 2000: The Information Services Division of The Dialog Corporation (LSE: DLG, NASDAQ: DIAL) today announced that consumer goods reports from Datamonitor, one of the world's leading publishers of market analysis, are now available to subscribers on the Profound business intelligence service.

Businesses already using Profound as their primary source of accurate and comprehensive information can now access Datamonitor's consumer goods portfolio - global independent analysis covering food, drinks, personal care, ingredients, packaging and retail sectors.

Paul Newton, Datamonitor's Director of New Media Sales, views the addition of the consumer goods reports to Profound as a positive step in bringing Datamonitor's unique analysis and insight to a wider audience: "The Profound user base represents exactly the type of wider audience that Datamonitor is keen to reach. Moreover, we believe that our data and analysis will offer real business benefits to that user base. Our specialist in-house analysts have been monitoring markets and companies for 10 years and are drawn from leading consultancy and industry-specific backgrounds, and our rigorous research methodology means that you can rely on the accuracy of our analysis as the basis for planning future strategies."

Eric Goldstein, Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and Content Department, The Dialog Corporation, commented: "Profound is widely recognised as the leading source of valuable business intelligence for organisations world-wide. Including Datamonitor's consumer goods research now brings more world-class information and power to these users. It reconfirms that Profound is the only place to get the comprehensive and detailed insight your company needs to make accurate strategic decisions."

The Datamonitor consumer goods reports are categorised into three major sources to meet a variety of research requirements from simple market data and trends analysis to detailed strategic insight:

• For those companies needing visionary input and forward trends, the Strategic Issue Reports provide timely thought leadership on key cross-market trends, and include case studies allowing users to learn from practical applications and stay one step ahead of the competition.
• Company profiles are provided through the Competitive Intelligence Series which offer detailed named company research including company strategy assessment and impact on markets, allowing users to analyse strengths and weaknesses of their competitors and perform detailed opportunity research.
• For users wishing to perform trend analysis from comprehensive statistics, the Market Data Reports contain historical and forecast data over 46 countries, in 9 major food and drinks markets and 11 cosmetics, toiletries and home hygiene markets.

"The comprehensive nature of the Datamonitor reports ensures that Profound users have the widest variety of information available to meet any specific research requirement, be it a simple data enquiry to an in-depth analysis of the future direction of an industry. We see this as another example of our aggressive campaign to target new content providers to add to what is already the most comprehensive information collection in the world," concluded Goldstein.

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About Dialog
Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 800 million unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 30 countries, Dialog products are used by more than 20,000 corporate customers in over 100 countries. Dialog is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace with 2000 revenues of approximately $6 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto (TSE:TOC) and London stock exchanges.

For more information about Dialog, call 1-800-3-DIALOG or visit www.dialog.com. For more information about Thomson, visit www.thomson.com.

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Datamonitor
Datamonitor is an independent market analysis firm that publishes a wide portfolio of strategic business information. Datamonitor has expertise in the following industry sectors: Automotive & Transport; Consumer Goods; Financial Services; Healthcare; Industrial; Medical Equipment; Technology. Datamonitor can be contacted on (44) 171 675 7000 or visit www.datamonitor.com.

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