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{{short description|Online platform for supplier discovery and product sourcing in the USA and Canada}}
[[Image:ThomasRegister.png|frame|1905 ''Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers'']]▼
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{{Infobox company
| name = Thomas
| former_name = Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers
| image = ThomasRegister.png
| image_alt =
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| type = Subsidiary
| industry =
| predecessor = <!-- or: predecessors = -->
| founded = {{Start date and age|1898}}
| founder = Harvey Mark Thomas
| defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| fate =
| successor = <!-- or: successors = -->
| hq_location_city = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| hq_location_country = USA
| area_served = United States and Canada
| key_people = [[Randy Altschuler]], CEO
| products =
| owner = <!-- or: owners = -->
| num_employees =
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| parent = [[Xometry]] (after 2021)<br/>Thomas Publishing (before 2021)
| website = {{Official website|http://www.thomasnet.com/}}
}}
The '''''Thomas Register of American Manufacturers''''', now '''Thomas''',<ref name=DIRnet.NYT>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/technology/navigator.html?_r |title=The New York Times Newsroom Navigator |author=Rich Meislin |date=February 7, 2007 |accessdate=July 3, 2019}}</ref> is an online platform for supplier discovery and product sourcing in the US and Canada. It was once known as the "big green books" and "Thomas Registry", and was a multi-volume [[Yellow Pages|directory]] of [[Industry (economics)|industrial]] product information covering [[distributors]], [[manufacturers]] and service companies<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|quote=it's a registry of companies and manufacturers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/30/arts/art-architecture-representing-america-in-a-language-of-her-own.html|title=ART/ARCHITECTURE; Representing America in a Language of Her Own|author=Judith H. Dobrzynski |date=May 30, 1999}}</ref> within thousands<ref>67,000-plus</ref> of industrial categories that is now published on Thomasnet.
==History==
The books were first published in 1898<ref name=NYC1898.Forb>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2018/05/31/from-old-school-to-cutting-edge-the-transformation-of-a-b2b-directory-company |title=From Old School To Cutting Edge: The Transformation Of A B2B|date=May 31, 2018}}</ref> by Harvey Mark Thomas as ''Hardware and Kindred Trades. ''In their heyday,
The Thomas Regional Directory Company began as a division of Thomas Publishing in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|website=ReferenceForBusiness.com |title=Thomas Publishing Company - Company Profile, Information |quote=Thomas Regional Directory Company Established, 1976-77 |url=https://www.reference4business.com/history2/9/Thomas-Publishing-Company.html}}</ref> Thomas Regional Regional Industrial Buying Guides<ref name=RegionSrch>{{cite web|url=https://libraries.uky.edu/record.php?lir_id=440|title=Thomasnet Industrial Search (Thomas Register)|quote=directory of North American manufacturers; access by company name, product, service, or brand name.}}</ref> provided information in print and on CD-ROM, on local [[OEM]]s, distributors, [[Maintenance|MRO]] services and other custom manufacturing services in 19 regional editions covering much of the United States. Thomas Register and Thomas Regional were available online from the mid 1990s. The company stopped publishing its print products in 2006.
Thomas has moved its database [[online]] as ThomasNet, published and maintained by Thomas Industrial Network, one of Thomas’ five business units. ThomasNet has expanded to provide not only product and company information, but also [[online catalog]]s, [[computer-aided design]] ([[CAD]]) drawings, [[news]], [[press releases]] and [[blogs]].▼
▲Thomas
In December 2021, Thomas was acquired by [[Xometry]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Xometry Acquires Thomas for $300M in Cash and Stock|url=https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/21183282/xometry-acquires-thomas-for-300m-in-cash-and-stock|access-date=2021-12-09|website=www.industryweek.com}}</ref>
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Since November 2010,
▲ThomasNet is an information and technology company based in New York City. In April 2006 the [[New York Public Library]] named ThomasNet.com as one of its [http://www.nypl.org/branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=300 25 Best of Reference] sources for the [[reference librarian]], and is currently listed in their [http://www.nypl.org/weblinks/1382 Best of the Web] list for Industry Information.
▲Since November 2010, ThomasNet has been a founding partner of GlobalTrade.net, a marketplace for international trade service providers.
In 2000,
▲==ThomasNet News==
▲ThomasNet News is a product of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC. ThomasNet News was introduced with “the mission of delivering timely, new industrial product information covering the whole range of products …” It manually reviews press releases submitted through the website and publishes with a small description in one of 51 different categories.
▲In 2000, ThomasNet News released Industry Market Trends (IMT), its first Journal. In the IMT, editors published editorials, interviews, and long form journalism on issues ranging from career skills, developments in the industry, and discussions with leading experts. Soon after, IMT Green & Clean was launched in response to the growing interest in green technology and its impact on the world. In 2011, the IMT Machining Journal was launched followed by the IMT Fluid & Gas Flow Journal, the IMT Career Journal, and the IMT Procurement Journal.
==Research==
Starting in 2010,
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Promotion and marketing communications]]
[[Category:Marketing books]]
[[Category:Directories]]
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