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Willamette High School Business Class
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COMPANY HOME PAGES
The company's home page is a good place to locate information company history and financial information.
- ExxonMobil (http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/)
- Gap Inc. (http://www.gapinc.com/public/index.shtml)
- Johnson & Johnson (http://www.jnj.com/connect/)
- Wal-Mart (http://www.walmart.com/)
COMPANY PROFILES
The following resources include information on company facts, description & history, subsidiaries,
financials, ratios, market research, competitors, company's
industry, and more.
- EDGAR
Provides company filings: 10-K, proxy statements, annual reports, and other financial statements of public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). - IBISworld
IBISWorld covers thousands of industries in the United States economy at the 5-digit NAICS code level. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key success factors, and outlook. IBISWorld also has extensive coverage of industries in the Asia/Pacific region with re ports covering China, Australia and Indonesia. - Encyclopedia of Company Histories at Answers.com
Information on the development of top companies from around the world including timelines, lists of principal subsidiaries and competitors, and bibliographies for further reading. - International Directory of Company Histories
REF KNIGHT HD 2721 .I63
Provides a valuable reference source on international big business. Each entry provides basic factual information on the history of the company and a survey of its recent performance and activities. - Lexis-Nexis Academic
Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more. - Mint Global
Mint Global from Bureau van Dijk contains information on over 35 million public and private companies and financial institutions from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It provides descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data. - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage brings together a dozen financial and investment publications that provide information for corporate research and for industry, competitive, and investment analysis. Among the publications included are such familiar titles as S&P's Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Mutual Fund Reports, and the Outlook. Also included are S&P's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives and the Security Dealers Directory.
COMPANY RANKINGS
- Business Rankings Annual
REF KNIGHT HG 4050 .B88 [On Business Table] - D&B Business Rankings
REF KNIGHT G 4057 .A237 [On Business Table] - Financial Times 500
Includes Global 500, US 500, Europe 500, UK 500, and Japan 500. - Forbes America's 200 Best Small Companies
Annual list highlighting the hottest growth prospects in American business. - Forbes America's Largest Private Companies
List of the top private companies in the US, based on revenues. - Forbes Lists
Lists of top companies, education, places, and people and more. - Fortune Global 500
Fortune magazine's annual list of the top 500 global companies, ranked by revenues. - Fortune 500
Fortune magazine's annual list of the top 500 U.S. companies, ranked by revenues
- Fortune 500 1995-2006
A database of every year of FORTUNE's list of America's largest corporations. - Inc. 5000
List of fast growing private companies in America. - IndustryWeek 1000
Reports on 1000 largest publicly held manufacturing companies based on revenue in the United States.
FINDING BOOKS & ARTICLES
To find books on your companies, search the library's Online Catalog. Perform a subject or keyword search.
To find journal, or magazine, or newspaper articles, search the following databases:
- Business Source Premier
Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
The Wall Street Journal, the financial newspaper of record, is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. The database provides the full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal going back to at least 1986, with some material from earlier years. It includes the entire text of written articles, but no graphs or data, such as stock prices.
CORPORATE WATCH
- Responsible Shopper (http://www.responsibleshopper.org)-- Offers in-depth social profiles on countless companies.
- CorpWatch (http://www.corpwatch.org) -- Offers news on human rights abuses abroad, public policy, and environmental news-plus on-site reporting of protests.
Last Modified: 03/18/2009