Business Databases -- Company Information
(see also
Business--Articles,
Business--Directories, and
International Business)
[Online Reference Information]
[Indexes]
[Also of Interest]
- Online Reference Information:
- Mergent
Online
 
- (formerly FISonline) Published by Mergent FIS, formerly Moody's, information
is provided on companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq
exchanges updated daily as well as information on over 12,000
international companies. Over 46,000 domestic and international annual
reports on over 20,000 companies are included. Real-time access to
EDGAR filings and 10 years of as-reported financial statements
are provided. Access to real-time company news headlines,
one-page company overviews, and other features for downloading data
are available. (works best with Internet Explorer or Netscape 6+)
- Hoover's
Online
- Company information on 14,000 public and private
enterprises in the U.S. and around the world. Access to member
benefits includes company profiles, in-depth and historical financials,
full lists of officers, and the ability to create lists of companies
by location, industry, sales, and/or type. (works best with Internet Explorer or Netscape 6+)
- Business
& Company Resource Center (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Brings together in a
single database company
profiles, company brand information,
rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies, and periodicals. Search this
database to find detailed company and industry
news and information.
- Business
& Company Resource Center (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Brings together in a
single database company
profiles, company brand information,
rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies, and periodicals. Search this
database to find detailed company and industry
news and information.
- Lexis-Nexis
Company Dossier (Lexis-Nexis)
- Provides a corporate snapshot, business description, brands, officers, stock information, SEC filings,
corporate hierarchy, financial information, legal information, intellectual property information,
articles from newspapers & trade publications, and more.
Includes information from Hoovers, CoreData, Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, Experian, Nelson's,
Worldscope, and more.
- Company
Profiles for Students (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers prominent public and private U.S.-based (and significant foreign-owned)
companies, providing an overview, company finances, analysts' opinions, history, strategy,
influences, current trends, products, corporate citizenship, global presence, employment,
sources of information, logos, ownership, ticker symbol, officers, number of employees,
principal subsidiary companies, and chief competitors. Includes stock performance,
current market share, new product lines, comparisons of the management styles of
companies in different industries, and an appendix of 35 industry profiles.
- Disclosure
Corporate Snapshots (FirstSearch)
- Contains information about all public company filings
including annual reports, company summary information,
and shareholder reports. Includes information from
public documents maintained by the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Offers daily updates of
stock trading reports.
- Worldscope
(FirstSearch)
- Financial reports on companies worldwide. Includes
information from a variety of sources and documents
such as annual reports, disclosure statements,
newspapers, and wire services, regarding corporations
all over the world. Lists business
descriptions, key ratios, financial information,
officers.
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Business
and Company ASAP (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides information on companies, markets, and industries by covering
market trends, company overviews, mergers, acquisitions, business practices,
economic indicators, and management theory & issues. Includes information from
business and trade journals, newspapers, and company directory profiles. Covers
1980 to the present.
- Business
Source Premier (Ebsco)
- Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business
journals and other scholarly business publications, including
more than 350 dating as far back as 1922.
Offers information in nearly every area of business including management,
economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.
Also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports
from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch, as well as detailed
company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
Updated daily.
- General
BusinessFile ASAP (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Finance,
acquisitions & mergers, international
trade, money management, new technologies &
products,
local & regional
business trends, investments and banking.
Covers back to 1980.
- Lexis-Nexis
Company Dossier (Lexis-Nexis)
- Provides a corporate snapshot, business description, brands, officers, stock information, SEC filings,
corporate hierarchy, financial information, legal information, intellectual property information,
articles from newspapers & trade publications, and more.
Includes information from Hoovers, CoreData, Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, Experian, Nelson's,
Worldscope, and more.
- Business
and Industry (FirstSearch)
- Contains important facts, figures and key events
for international public and private companies,
industries, products, and markets for manufacturing
and service industries. Covers all the primary
business information sources--from leading trade
magazines, newsletters, and the general business
press to international business dailies.
- Also of Interest:
- Encyclopedia
of American Industries (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Business reference encyclopedia providing detailed, comprehensive
information on over 1000 manufacturing, service, and various non-manufacturing
industries in every realm of American business. For each, it presents an industry
snapshot, organization & structure, background & development, current
conditions, industry leaders, workforce, global marketplace, research &
technology, and bibliography.
- Contemporary
Fashion (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers individual designers, fashion houses, and many facets
of the fashion world throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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