Also, Advertising Ages' Top 100 advertisers is listed, as well as an e-mail directory to industry contacts. The section listing Marketing Research companies should be of value to students in the field. This invaluable web site enables market researchers to determine the manufacturer of a specific product. More than 155,000 companies and 124,000 brand names are registered in the Thomas Register database. What's more, business researchers can e-mail a company while viewing the listing.
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One can locate associations, PR firms, agents, and marketing research firms. Other links include sites addressing coupons, internet marketing, and consumer psychology. The brainchild of J. Le Vallee, from the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, this web site contains market information, commodities prices, and outlook reports for agricultural economists and market information analysts. Vallee also provides a valuable page of hyperlinks to additional sources of market information in agricultural economics. There is also a link to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Britain's official organization for marketing.