Company Research

ABI/Inform Global (1971-present): The best place to begin when searching for articles on any business topic. For more relevant results when searching for articles about a company, choose the Advanced Search tab, enter the company’s name in the search box and select Company/Org from the drop-down to the right.
Business Source Complete: Like ABI/Inform, this is a good database for “big picture” articles about all aspects of business. To search for articles about a particular company, scroll down into the “Special Limiters” part of the interface and enter the company’s name in the Company Entity box. Keywords for aspects of the company can be entered in the search form at the top of the page.
Business & Industry (1994-present): The trade publications indexed here can provide practical, detailed information into how things are actually done in a company or industry. For articles about a particular company, enter the firm’s name in the Company box. You can narrow your search by choosing items from the Concept Term or Marketing Term lists.

Hoover’s Premium: Provides quick, convenient access to key information about thousands of public and private companies. This is an especially good source for compact company histories, business descriptions, accounts of current conditions, product lists and competitors.
Datamonitor Company Profiles: Provide essential information for more than 10,000 firms. Typically, these reports feature strong histories and business descriptions, good lists of products and services, and a discussion of the contributions of each operational segment to the company’s financial performance. About one-third of reports include SWOT analyses, identifying and explicating two to four strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each company so treated. To access these reports, go to Business Source Complete, select Company Profiles from the column on the right of the opening screen then type the company’s name in the search box of the window that opens up.
Business & Company Resource Center: Brings together wide-ranging, authoritative information on thousands of companies. This is an excellent source of detailed yet short company histories, industry overviews, market share information and extensive lists of products and brands.

Mergent Online: This easy-to-use database provides a wealth of financial data, ratios, annual reports and SEC filings on thousands of companies, U.S. and International, active and inactive.

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations (Barclay Reference Center HG4957 .A219): Provides excellent lists of key personnel, often to the VP level, for public and private companies worldwide.
ReferenceUSA: For each of the millions of U.S. firms indexed, this exhaustive online directory lists at least one contact person, their contact information and their gender.
Datamonitor Company Profiles: Datamonitor provides brief biographical entries for many of the executives and directors listed in its company reports. To access these reports, go to Business Source Complete, selectCompany Profiles from the column on the right of the opening screen thentype the company’s name in the search box of the window that opens up.

Hoover’s Premium: Our best resource for identifying a company’s competitors and accessing essential information about them. Each company report provides a comprehensive list of firms within the industry and identifies three or four key competitors. Each listed company is hyperlinked to its own Hoover’s report. Additionally, each company is compared to its top competitors in terms of operations, key ratios, growth and per share data.
Mergent Online: Within this financial database, you can obtain canned reports of a company and its competitors or construct customized comparison reports of financial and ratio data from 1999 to the latest quarter.
Thomson One Banker: This database allows you to compare key financials of your company and its top competitors as defined by SIC, GICS or ICB systems.

Date Last Updated: 5/16/2008

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