Gale Group is to Launch Business & Company Resource Center 19/5/00 The Gale Group, an operating unit of the Thomson Corporation, is to launch its most comprehensive business research tool ever this summer. The Business & Company Resource Center, an online product, will integrate comprehensive, authoritative and essential business resources within a single interface. The aim is to make business research simple, intuitive and accessible on a desktop. According to John Barnes senior vice-president and general manager of the Gale Group's academic and public library group, "This is a one-of-a-kind source for management, strategy, operational or financial research on nearly any issue or company. We're very pleased to offer users a single, integrated source for all of their business research. The integration of daily news, with investment and financial data, along with harder-to-find information like corporate histories and chronologies make for an extremely valuable and unique business tool." Business & Company Resource Center's global and diverse content will allow for comprehensive reports on virtually any business research question or project. Gale is leveraging its Thomson family ties to include complete and authoritative financial data. Content from Thomson Financial such as Investext, selected First Call data, company performance ratings, balance sheets and income statements, current investment ratings, insider buying and selling activity and more will be easily accessible and delivered in the context of the research query. Depth will be provided with extensively researched company profiles, that delineate parent/sibling relationships, products and brands, histories, industry rankings and statistics, stock prices. Industry context will be provided with continuously updated news, magazine and newswire data, along with investment reports, consumer marketing data, and emerging technology reports, industry newsletter news and analysis, business journal articles and press releases.