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AWARE: UK competitive intelligence consultants offering competitor analysis and research services, competitive intelligence training & workshops and CI and marketing strategy consultancy.

Information Broking


  • Do you run out of time or not have enough time in the first place to search for information you need for your business, article, assignment or project?
  • Do you ever need to find something you know was published - but don't recall where?
  • Have you ever tried to find a news article about a topic you are working on?
  • What was the main headline five years ago, or five months ago?
  • Is there a patent mentioning your research process?
  • What was the turnover of a UK limited company three years ago and who were the directors?
  • Are there any legal judgements against a particular individual?
  • You have a quotation you want to use - but don't know who said it, where and when?

These are the sorts of questions where an Information Broker can help you. We are professional searchers - and will search not just the Internet but also proprietary databases such as Factiva, Westlaw, Dialog and Dun & Bradstreet, among others. These databases hold information on patents, scientific research, legal cases, and news going back a number of decades, from 1000s of newspapers and magazines across the world. Many such databases are not available to the casual searcher - or require experience and practice to use to the fullest extent.

There is a lot more material available from these secondary information sources than can be found on Google. Some estimates put it at a few hundred times more! Apart from the proprietary informaton such as mentioned above (protected by passwords so only subscribers can access it) a considerable amount of valuable information is hidden and can't be found using conventional search engines - including information held on deep-web databases that are missed by most search engines.

Rather than just depend on the information you can find on the web using Google it is always better to search all possible sources to make sure that nothing is missed - especially if not finding the information will result in work having to be repeated or in poor decisions based on inadequate data.

We are known as experts in online searching using both proprietary sources and the Intenet, and are full members of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) as well as the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Let us help you find the information you need, at a price you can afford to pay!

  • We'll check news archive databases globally, looking for items mentioning your competitor, their products, people or technologies.
  • We'll scan the industry and regional press world-wide for relevant mentions.
  • We'll check patent and trademark databases, company filing records, planning applications, European Union and UK government records and more....

so as to ensure that you obtain the information you need to make the decisions that take you forward!

Our costs for this are based on the cost we pay for the information - subject to a minimum charge for our search time. Article costs will vary from around $3.00 for a single article to many times this for a full market research report. However before we start work we will always ask for a budget or limit, or alternatively report on what is available and give you a price to obtain the information.

Contact us about our information broking services

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Books - Co-opertition

Recommended Book

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Co-opetition : 1. a revolutionary mindset that redefines competition and cooperation; 2. the game theory strategy that's changing the game of business
Adam M Brandenburger & Barry J Nalebuff
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Read our review of this book

Michael Porter described this book as "the most important single contribution" in taking his original ideas on ways of achieving competitive advantage forward. The book is easy to read, inexpensive and contains numerous ideas to help reshape and challenge thought processes. The writers develop Porter's 5 forces model, and introduce a sixth force. They emphasise the strategic advantages of co-operation and look at game theory as a way of approaching business strategy.

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Our services in competitive intelligence research, competitor analysis and CI training will help you integrate and use competitive and marketing intelligence in your business, strategic and marketing planning processes. Whether you need research, advice or training, our mission is to support our clients so that they achieve their growth objectives.

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AWARE Phone numbers: 0845 430 9125 (International: +44 20 8954 9121). Fax: 0845 430 9126 (International: +44 20 8954 2102)

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