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detailed information on products and services, company profiles,
contact information, and catalog files.3
As of May 2, 1998, TPC published and sold throughout the
United States and abroad approximately 24 business-to-business
industrial business directories, including the Thomas Register of
American Manufacturers (the Thomas Register), TPC’s 34-volume
directory which is recognized throughout North America as the
most comprehensive resource for finding manufacturing companies
and products. TPC also published and sold a variety of news
magazines, software comparison guides, and a magazine relating to
factory automation, and it owned a product information exchange
service and a custom publishing group.
By any measurement, as of May 2, 1998, TPC was regarded as a
very successful and profitable company and by some as holding an
effective monopoly in the United States on business-to-business
industrial and manufacturing print publications.
3 The first buying directory was published by Harvey Mark
Thomas in 1890, prior to incorporation of the business, and was
titled “Thomas’ Machinery, Iron, Steel, and Metal Trades
Reference Book”.
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