Useful Links

www.cips.org The UK purchasing body with a number of regional centres. Provides training, forums, and information on current best practice techniques.

www.supplymanagement.com Official magazine of the CIPS.

www.multimap.com A utility that gives travel directions and location finding functions for the UK.

www.xe.com Convert every known world currency into any other.

www.worldtimezone.com A site with a world map that displays the current UK time and the relative times in other zones.

www.berr.gov.uk BERR is the voice for business across Government.

www.hmso.gov.uk HMSO delivers a wide range of services relating to access and re-use of government information e.g latest legislation, copyright regulations and EU regulations.

www.ft.com Leading daily business newspaper’s website; has up-to-the-minute economic and market news, plus an extensive archive.

www.ftse.com Detailed information on the FTSE Indices and member companies.

www.hm-treasury.gov.uk The Treasury is the department responsible for formulating and putting into effect the UK Government's financial and economic policy.

www.bankofengland.co.uk The central bank of the United Kingdom.

www.eubusiness.com Europe's leading independent online business information service about the European Union.

www.babelfish.altavista.com Altavista's language translator will roughly translate entire sentences into any one of 9 languages (including English)

www.buyitnet.org Website intended to promote best practice in e-business and e-procurement.

www.ism.ws The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) is the largest supply management association in the world.

www.ifpmm.org The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management is the union of 42 National Purchasing Associations worldwide.

www.ipsera.org An active network of academics and practitioners dedicated to the development of understanding of matters concerning Purchasing & Supply Management.

www.iolt.org.uk The Institute of Logistics and Transport, is the professional body for those individuals and organisations that are involved in the logistics and transport sectors.

www.carolworld.com Company Annual Reports Online. Annual reports for British, US and Asian companies are available.

www.companieshouse.gov.uk The government agency that collects various types of company information in the UK.

www.cbi.org.uk As the body representing British employers, the CBI publishes a range of business and economic surveys.

www.yell.com Searches UK businesses for postal address, phone number, and a map of the location.

www.croner-reward.co.uk One of the UK’s leading providers of pay and benefits data publishing over 60 different regional, national and industry specific salary surveys each year.

www.eiu.com Leading provider of country intelligence and market trend data worldwide.

www.statistics.gov.uk The British government’s official statistics organisation, providing a wealth of economic and social data.

www.oft.gov.uk The Office is a non-ministerial department of government with a range of legal responsibilities as the principal United Kingdom fair trading authority.

www.ogc.gov.uk The OGC - the Office of Government Commerce - is an office of HM Treasury.

www.statistics.gov.uk The British government’s official statistics organisation, providing a wealth of economic and social data.

www.companynews.co.uk Links to UK company reports and news.

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