DATABASE ON “COMPANIES”

Some 1400 + names/ addresses have already been entered. When KOTHARI DIRECTORY - 1996 arrives, we may be able to enter some more.

What we are entering at present:

    . Name of 1 or 2 executives (chairman MD, CEO etc)

    . Their Designations

    . Name of Company

    . Address & Company

    . Phone no.

To the above - mentioned SCREEN, we need to add following "Screens"

A - Industry Category (In which industry does this company fall? belong to?

B - Products (or Services) manufactured/ marketed.

C - Plant location addresses.

D - Ownerships graph

eg. Companies belonging to

  . Khaitan Group    

  . SK Birla

  . Hinduja Group

  . B.K. Mody Group

  . L & T Group       etc. etc.

E - Sales Turnover (Rs. Crore) for latest completed financial year.

F - Overseas "technical" collaborators (Name of Company & Country & For which product)

G - Financial Joint - ventures with overseas companies.

H - Data on employees working there could be some more "fields" that may need adding in years to come - which I cannot think - up today. So, in any case, the program/ software has to be flexible.

Enough so that we can go on adding extra information about each company as & when

  . Felt necessary

  . Available from some source (to be discovered as we go along).

All of these may take several years but a beginning has been already made.

Of course, if at any point of time, we could get all of these data.

       . Readymade on floppy

       . At a reasonable cost.

Even today, this type of data is available ON - LINE by linking our computer to the CMIE computer under CIMM (Company Information on Magnetic Media).But it costs Rs. 1 lakh/ year ! Till such time it becomes cheaper, we have to build - up & use our own database.

I would like you to start with item A (listed above) i.e. Industry Category.

For each of the 1400 companies whose basic details we have already entered, I would like you to

enter the "appropriate" industry category against each.

Where will you find, which company belongs to which industry category?

You will find this on page 60 to 102 of enclosed magazine (the white letters in black strips). Pl. start.

h.c.parekh