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In this Guide:
Company Home pages
Company Profiles
Company Rankings
Finding Books & Articles
Corporate Watch

COMPANY HOME PAGES


The company's home page is a good place to locate information company history and financial information.


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
    DOCS REF HT 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.

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COMPANY RANKINGS

  • Business Rankings Annual
    DOCS REF HG 4050 .B88 [On Business Table]
  • D&B Business Rankings
    DOCS REF 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.

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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

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CORPORATE WATCH

  • BBBOnline (Better Business Bureau
    Information on National Complaint Statistics, FTC (Federal Tread Commission) articles for consumers and businesses and more.
  • CorpWatch (http://www.corpwatch.org) -- Offers news on human rights abuses abroad, public policy, and environmental news-plus on-site reporting of protests.
  • DataCenter: Impact Research for Social Justice
    Listings of web sites that include information on watchdog organizations that monitor companies.
  • Responsible Shopper (http://www.responsibleshopper.org)-- Offers in-depth social profiles on countless companies.

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Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/08/2010