Could you please provide a list of Californian companies with business
operations / activities in London, England? (please provide as much
info about the companies as is feasable, i.e address, url etc.)

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Clarification of Question by thinklondon-ga on 20 Apr 2005 06:15 PDT

By business operations I mean offices

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 20 Apr 2005 08:11 PDT

thinklondon,

This is actually a pretty challenging question, from a searcher's point of view.

I think I can probably come up with a list of about a dozen companies
that are based in California and operate in London as well, and can
also provide a good deal of info on each company, along these lines:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SUMTE


Let me know if a list of a dozen or so additional links like the one
above would meet your needs?


pafalafa-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 21 Apr 2005 00:34 PDT

Hello thinklondon-ga,

I?m looking forward to your clarification to the many questions and
comments that have been posted for you to consider. As a first time
user you might find it helpful to review the Google Answers Faq and
Pricing Guidelines.

http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html

How much effort your question will take depends a lot on how many
companies you will consider to be an acceptable answer. The more
information you can provide about the context of your question, the
more likely someone will be able to get you what you need. I look
forward to your clarification.

~ czh ~

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 29 Apr 2005 20:18 PDT

Hello...just checking in.

Do you have any response to the comments that have been posted thus far?


pafalafa-ga

TL --

California has about 18,700 companies with more than 100 employees --
the size at which a company would logically consider a U.K. presence. 
At 5 minutes of research per company that's more than six months of
effort.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

One can easily have a computer automatically run through the profile
of every company listed in yahoo and search through the text of the
business summary to see if they have London offices.  Enabling the
computer to do this would take about 4 hours of work and having the
computer find all the companies can take about 6-8 hours.

This assumes that the company summary contains the fact that they have
London offices, but judging from the link that pafa provided, this
seems likely.

Very feasible.


AC

Atheist --

You'd miss all of the non-public companies.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Greetings Thinklondon,
From what's been said so far, it seems like a clearer definition of
what you need would be helpful.
From which direction are you really interested?  Would you like to
address London offices of companies that are subsidiaries or branches
of co.s in California?
OR  Would you like to address Cal. co.s that have offices in London?

Do the companies have to have their main office in California, or just
a presence there?  Example.  Bank of America was till recently a Cal.
bank but now through merger is based in N. Carolina, but still has a
major presence in Cal.,  and, of course, it has an office in London.

Since you ask for URLs and addresses, it doesn't seem likely that you
just want a list for statistics, but rather that you have a specific
interest,  that maybe could be defined in a clarification.  That would
certainly shorten the list and make an answer more feasable and
probably more useful for you.

The URLs and addresses are really asking for a lot  - just the
transferring of them to an answer.  If you have the names, you can
find "as much info ... as is feasable."

Got the picture?  This is no criticism.  I might have asked the
question the same way myself without recognizing the difficulties.
myoarin