For more than thirty years the Dutch Rabobank offers access to brief but terse analysis of Dutch trade and industry. Rabobank Group is comprised of independent local Rabobanks plus Rabobank Nederland, their central organization, and its (internationally based) subsidiaries. The 161 independent local Rabobanks, which have a staff base of nearly 29,000 people, form the densest [...]

The “Koninklijke Bibliotheek” (KB) is the National Library of the Netherlands. The KB offers access to all Dutch publications issued by recognized publishers as well as a large portion of Dutch grey literature. Their catalogue offers access to 6 million items: 110 kilometers of (Dutch) books, newspapers and magazines. Dutch publishers are invited to deposit their [...]

Virtually every sector and line of business within the economy of the Netherlands, is organized. One particular “Dutch” regulatory structure is the so-called commodity or industrial board. These  boards are also known as “publiekrechtelijke beroepsorganisaties” (the Dutch abbreviation is PBO), and is similar to a public law corporation organization. In the Netherlands there are 17 commodity [...]

Updated: MD Info search-box now included! Most of the original sources covered by MD Info (e.g. Dutch news sources such as newspapers and magazines) are in the Dutch language. So unfortunately the main language of these newsletters and rss-feeds, is again Dutch-only. But the excellent abstract and index services provided by MD Info, through these [...]

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions and risk and compliance assessment. They offer news from about 90 sources from The Netherlands and Belgium. These are mainly national and regional newspapers and some business magazines. Please find below an [...]

Without a doubt, the most important news source for Dutch business information. For years MD Info (previously known as Marketing Data) delivers an excellent (subscription based) abstract and index service for researchers. This important online database covers over 200,000 (Dutch) newspaper, magazine and website articles. Both the consumer market, as well as the professional market [...]

Answers for business makes information from the Dutch government more accessible to entrepreneurs. On their website you will find for almost any line of business, an overview of the requirements, what is permitted and what the possibilities are (think of permits and rules, laws and regulations, and taxes and subsidies). You can find information on the [...]

The State directory provides you with information about the Dutch government at the state, provincial and municipal level. Every departmental description is preceded by an organizational chart, so at a glance you get an overview of a particular department, including cross references to advisory boards and other agencies which are active in a particular field. [...]

For more than a century, this annual directory offers information about private and public organizations, institutions and associations like the agricultural sector, the public authorities (ministerial departments), the chambers of commerce, corporate industrial organizations, legal practices (notary offices, lawyer’s offices, the judiciary), universities and polytechnics, health services, arts and culture (libraries and museums). Pyttersen’s contains [...]

The 1995 publication “Business Information: Guide to Information Sources in the Netherlands“  (written together with Hans van Herwijnen and published by NBLC in The Hague), deserved an update. Opening today,  BISN.nl will provide you with an up-to-date, english language insight to Dutch sources for business information written by Antoinne Sterk.  A Dutch language site is available [...]