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Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to approach, structure, and compose their own business plans, the handbook presents 20 sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries--only the company names and addresses have been changed. Typical business plans include type of business; statement of purpose; executive summary; business/industry description; market; product and production; management/personnel; and financial specifics. This edition also contains a business plan template and two fictional business plans--all of which can aid users in developing business plans of their own. Also featured are a listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants; a glossary of small business terms; and an updated bibliography.

This source lists manufacturers and distributors from small businesses to large corporations, from both the public and private sectors, offering complete coverage of more than 426,000 U.S. consumer brands; 115,000 manufacturers, importers or distributors; and companies that are out of business as well as brands that are no longer in production or are now considered generic.

The National Faculty Directory contains the names, departmental affiliations, institutional addresses, and phone numbers of nearly 1 million members of teaching faculties at nearly 4,500 American colleges and universities and 278 Canadian institutions that use instructional materials primarily in English. Updated and verified continuously, it is used by academic, public, and media libraries, and scholarly and research organizations.

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Thirty-Fifth Edition, now includes more than 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.

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated biographical articles on approximately 75 childrens authors and artists. The series covers more than 15, 000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries personal life, career, writings, adaptations, additional sources, photographs, and illustrations.

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras. Detailed entries offer students and other researchers access to a variety of important interpretations of historical periods, literary trends and topics, and the achievements of noteworthy individuals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.