Palms & Company Document

"Commercial Intelligence"

by

Dr. Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms

Subject: International Competitive Intelligence Firm; Research and Analysis Firm specializing in Russia

Palms & Company is an international Investment Banking firm engaged in research and analysis necessary for capital syndication due-diligence. The Company company is engaged in information processing, analysis training, strategic studies, monetary policy, laws, regulations, taxes and risk assessment and analysis relevant to portfolio creation in Russia. The partner of the company in Russia is Dun & Bradstreet Nord.

The following information is available by SIC code

• Names and coordinates of Russian customer/buyers/importers
• Quantity of products imported in 1995-1996
• Price paid and value reported to Customs officials
• Supplier from whom they purchased their imports
• Banking relations and references
• History of credit relations

In addition to investment banking services the company provides assistance in preparing

The company also offers products and services in the following areas:

"Palms Portal to Russia", on the WWW focuses on situation updates on geopolitical and economic developments throughout the fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union. The area reports contain updates on the current situation and assessments of future activity (not just a re-cap). Assessments of specific areas on a monthly or weekly basis can also be tailored to client needs.

If you have no browser or WWW access, we announce a new service by which folks without direct Internet access can browse the World Wide Web materials available from "Friends and Partners". Anyone with email access to the Internet can now retrieve WWW, gopher, and ftp documents. There is now offers a facility for users of our services to "browse" the Internet via email. This is provided for those folks who do not yet have direct Internet connectivity. To use this facility, just send an email message to: fp@solar.rtd.utk.edu

The message should consist of lines which look like:

send URL

where URL is any valid Internet URL address. For example, to request the home page of Palms & Company, Inc., Investment Bankers, just include the

line:

send http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html

Almost immediately, you should receive via email the contents of the specified page. Hyper-text links are indicated with a [x] and the address for the links listed at the bottom of the page. This serves as a handy "directory" which enables you to browse an area of the server.

Dr. Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms, Sovetnik Pravitelstva CWA, Tovarichestvo Palmsa, Inc. Investment Bankers. Washington, USA

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