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Company Lists

Forbes: Company Lists: 400 Best Big Companies, 200 Best Small Companies, International 500, etc.
Business Week: Business Week 50
Business Week: IT 100
Industry Week: IW 100

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Company Directories

Business.com

Business.com is a free resource for industry and company-related information and links.  Company information includes both public and private companies.

CatalogXpress

While many manufacturers now offer information on their Web sites, it's not possible to compare products on two or more sites simultaneously. The data content on these sites also varies greatly. CatalogXpress from IHS is the only World Wide Web source for complete, full-text catalogs from over 15,000 vendors. Over 2.3 million pages are included.

Europages

This site contains a free database of 150,000 companies selected from 25 European countries. Each entry lists the company's address and telephone number. Selected companies provide a catalog of further information.  Searchable by company name and activity sector.

Reference USA
Listings of 11 million U.S. Companies. Data includes
contact information, number of employees, type of business, headquarter/branch Identifiers and more.

Thomas Food Industry Register

Searchable directory and buying guide for products, services, and companies in the food industry. Information on 30,000 U.S. and Canadian suppliers of food products, ingredients, equipment, and supplies listed under 6,000 product categories. This site is free to the  public though a registration is necessary to search the database.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Searchable electronic directory of products, services, and companies in the Untied States. This site is free to the public though a registration is necessary to search the database. 

Thomas Register of European Companies

Searchable directory and buying guide for products, services, and companies in the food industry. Information on 30,000 U.S. and Canadian suppliers of food products, ingredients, equipment, and supplies listed under 6,000 product categories. This site is free to the public, though a registration is necessary to search the database.

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Company Financials & Profiles

Annual Reports in the Management & Economics Library Collection

List of company annual reports held by the Krannert Library, some of which are in the Hicks Repository. Searchable by company name, industry, and SIC Code.

Business & Company Resource Center

BCRC is a compilation of several resources. Information on companies, and industries is available. Also included are sections on market share, associations,and statistics. An added feature allows for searching by brand name or product.

CCH Research NetWork

Corporate Information
Company Information metasite that provides access to analyse reports, company capsules, Country and industry related information as well as tools to determine exchange rates, company `extensions´, and researching by state

Disclosure Select

Scanned full-image and EDGAR ASCII text documents of publicly traded company filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also includes the filings of more than 7,300 foreign companies.

Factiva

Business news and articles, current company and stock information, and the Wall Street Journal full-text.  Large selection of international newspapers and business publications

EDGAR

EDGAR (the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) performs automated collection,  validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required  by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and  Exchange Commission (SEC). As of 6 May 1996, all  public domestic companies are required to make their filings on EDGAR with very limited exemptions. There are many other Internet sites which provide fee-based access to EDGAR filings and there are definitely some advantages to their value added searching capabilities.  Nevertheless, the SEC site does provide free links to all filings since 1994. EDGAR filings are posted to the SEC site 24 hours after the date of filing. There are several other interesting features on the SEC site such as proposed and final SEC rulings, ticker symbol look-up, and mutual fund activity reports.

Hoover's

The Hoover's electronic company information is as varied as are its print publications.  Follow the "Search for company Information" icon to search for companies by name, ticker symbol, industry, location, and annual sales. This search retrieves what Hoover's calls a "Company Capsule" that includes basic company identification information and recent full-text news articles. Another free link is a searchable index for a company's homepage address.

Lexis-Nexis

LEXIS®-NEXIS®Academic is a full text database containing primarily legal, business, and newspaper sources.  Search for news items on specific company names.  Sources available include US, European, and Asian newspapers.  Also available are transcripts, trade journals, and wire service stories.

Market Insight (S&Ps)

Market Insight delivers Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, Corporate Action information, Business Descriptions, Executive Compensation data, Recent News stories, Standard & Poor´s Industry Surveys, DRI Country Overviews, CIA WorldFactbook Statistics, COMPUSTAT Financials, and more. MI offers a full suite of informative reports, with links between industry peers for fast comparisons, and links to country-level economic data. Users can screen for companies that meet key financial and market criteria. 

MergentOnline

MergentOnline gives you immediate access to a fully searchable database of more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq exchange companies, including real-time (and archived to 1993)EDGAR(r) (SEC) filings. Contains similar data as the Moody's Manuals.

Net Advantage

Standard & Poor´s NetAdvantage contains the following sources of information: S&P Bond Guides, Earnings Guide, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, Mutual Funds, S&P Outlook, Register of Corporations, Executives, & Directors, S&P Stock Guide and Stock Reports.

Thomson Research (formerly Disclosure Global Access)
U.S. and International public company financial data including information from annual reports, 10-K's and 10-Q's, company tearsheets, proxies, and other financial filing documents

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Annual Reports

CAROL-Company Annual Reports Online

Quick Studies

Peer Group Analysis

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Last update: March 10, 2008

Prepared by: Hal P. Kirkwood Jr. kirkwood@purdue.edu