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Business Monitor International Now Available on Dialog Profound's ResearchLine

Specialists In Coverage of Global Emerging Markets

CARY, N.C., USA — October 9, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced that content from Business Monitor International (BMI), a business and economics publisher specializing in global emerging markets, is now available through ResearchLine, the market research collection on the Dialog Profound® online service offered by Dialog.

BMI is a leading print and online publisher of specialist business information, offering a range of weekly, monthly and quarterly information services on global emerging markets. Its reporting and analysis covers political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and business operating environment issues in key markets in Asia, Latin America, emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

"We are delighted to offer our range of country analysis research publications through Dialog Profound," said Andrew Leighton, BMI business development manager. "Our focus on emerging markets will help strengthen Dialog Profound's coverage of international macroeconomic and political reporting and analysis."

Added Viji Krishnan, Dialog vice president, content development: "Many of our customers around the world are keenly focused on trends and developments in emerging markets. Adding BMI's high quality materials to the Dialog Profound service adds a tremendous new depth and thoroughness to our global coverage. We are excited to be working with BMI."

BMI's publications, all now available for electronic searching and article retrieval through the Dialog Profound service, include its Emerging Markets Monitor, Financial Alert series, Market Monitor series and Quarterly Country Forecast series.

Dialog Profound is used worldwide by information professionals, marketing researchers, international business managers and others. The service is known for its broad collection of global marketing research, regional economic and political information, and related industry and business research from all major markets worldwide.

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About Business Monitor International
BMI is a leading print and online publisher of specialist business information on global emerging markets. Its range of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly services covers political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and the business operating environment. BMI also publishes directories and CD-ROMs profiling multinational companies active in emerging markets. Please visit www.businessmonitor.com for more information.

About Dialog
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's online services - offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data brands - give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers, other information professionals and end-users at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

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