I am looking for a UK-based company that creates visual maps that
represent relationships between businesses. I saw their map several
years ago, it was printed on a large sheet of paper (maybe even
laminated, but I am not sure about that) but I forgot to write down
the name of the company.
The map represents different business entities (corporations, and I
believe trusts, banks and other forms of businesses) from all over the
world with arrows pointing from one entity to another. Different
arrorws indicate relationships such as: "this company has a
controlling interest in that company", "this company is a subsidiary
of that company", "this company owns fully that company" and so forth.
The map is very complicated and includes businesses world-wide. If I
remember correctly, there are different arrow colors and arrows have
varying thickness (if one company has many subsidiaries, the arrow is
thicker on one side and then it gets thinner as it branches off and
gets to individual subsidiaries). I believe the company in question
has several different maps available for sale. The company is
physically located in the UK but might have offices in other
countries.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 15 Oct 2004 04:42 PDT

Hi adgelf,

Is there anything else you can remember about this company? Maybe you
can recall part of the name, part of the url, where in the UK it is
based, etc...anything at all. Any detail, no matter how small, may
help in this search.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 17 Oct 2004 07:31 PDT

Here's on for US media ownership:


http://www.freedomfiles.org/usmedia.pdf



Is this the sort of thing you were looking for?  

It's not from a UK company, but it's hard to imagine a diagram that
covers general industry/company relations, since there are so many,
and there so complex, and they pretty much change day to day.

Let us know a bit more about what you're after, and perhaps we can
track it down for you.

pafalafa-ga

This sounds like a graphical representation of the Who Owns Whom directories
http://www.apinfo.co.uk/dnb/UK.htm#whoownswhom

I can't see any mention of graphical representation
but I'll bet that it is their data being displayed

It might indeed be the data from the Who Owns Whom directory, but that
particular company that manufacted the map I saw had a particular
clever way (or it may have even been a patented way) of putting the
visual map together.

Have a look at this page

http://www.montague.com/review/orgchart.html

It is possible that the reference to Dialog providing Who Owns Whom
data is what you are after - Dialog used to be owned by a UK company