1.   Consumer information is an asset which Marketers are prepared to pay good money for.

2.   The third company will be A. C. Nielsen, a provider of consumer Market information.

3.   And the financial, health care and insurance industries are under scrutiny from regulators over the way they store and handle consumer information.

4.   A web site of the Department of Health and Human Services provides direct links to online publications and data bases whose material includes consumer health information from federal agencies.

5.   Businesses and organizations are jumping into the market for on-line consumer information.

6.   Business Objects company makes software that helps banks, insurance companies, retailers and others keep track of large amounts of consumer information.

7.   But as people routinely make purchases over the network, more specific consumer information is likely to be collected.

8.   But Bobby Baker, chairman of the PSC, said the mailing appeared premature and said all marketing companies should be granted equal access to consumer information.

9.   But that consumer information must come from health newsletters or other media, because the law restricts what herb vendors can say on product labels or in ads.

10.   Consumer information is provided by BMW of North America and a credit union.