Directories

Directories list companies’ addresses, phone numbers and officers and often index companies by industry, main products or geographic location. Some may include listings of affiliates, subsidiaries or divisions.

• Lexis Nexis Academic: Business
  Includes directory information from ABI U.S. Business Directory, Directory of Corporate Affiliations, Standard and Poor’s Register, America’s Corporate Finance Directory, and Nelson’s Public Company Profiles
• Hoover’s Online
  Free contents includes news, industry watch and financials.
• Standard and Poor’s Net Advantage
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Ref T 12 .T6,
  Can be searched by product or service, brand name, or company name
• ReferenceUSA
  Allows sorting of companies by geographic area
• Million Dollar Directory Ref HC 102.2 .D8 (on Index Table)
  Lists public and private companies

Profiles and Company Histories

• International Directory of Company Histories Ref HD 2721 .I63 1998
• Value Line Investment Survey Ref HG 4501 .V26, or ask at the reference desk for a password to access this product online. The most recent paper copies of the Value Line Investment Survey are kept behind the public service desk.
• Mergent Online Includes histories, mergers, subsidiaries, key employee biographies, financials, links to company websites and more.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Click on “Business” in the left column, then on “Business Profiles”. Enter the name of the company of interest in the right search box space, and then go down to “Source”. A number of sources are listed here, including Hoover Company Reports, International Company Reports, S & P Corporate Descriptions, U.S. Private Companies and U.S. Public Companies.
• Business Source Premier/Business Source Complete
  Provides company profiles reported by Datamonitor in a separate part of the database. Includes overview, history, key employees, top competitors, major products and services, subsidiaries and news.

Articles in News, Trade and Scholarly Publications

• Business and Industry
  Covers newsletters, trade journals and business dailies.
• Business Dateline
  Includes regional business publications (such as New Orleans City Business) from 1987-present
• Business Source Complete/Business Source Premier
  The largest business publication database in the world, covering scholarly, trade, and other publications addressing all aspects of business
• Hospitality and Tourism Index
  Covers businesses in these, and related industries.
• Lexis Nexis Academic: Business
  Includes articles from wires and transcripts as well as magazines, newspapers and journals
• Vente et Gestion
  French language publications in business

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Select Business News, then “Mergers and Acquisitions”. You may limit your searches to “Mergerstat Review” (in the “search this publication” search box)

Subsidiaries

• Mergent Online
  Search a company name (or ticker, etc.) and go to the report page for the company. A banner at the top of the page offers “Subsidiaries” along with other data

Bankruptcies

• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Click on “Business” in the left column, then select “Company Profiles”. From the “Source” pull-down menu, select “Bankruptcies”. You can use the Company Name search box to look for a particular company
• BankruptcyData.com
  This site includes a large subscriber portion but a lot of information is free, including data on major bankruptcies
• Internet Bankruptcy Library
  This site also has a great deal of free information on major bankruptcy cases, and other relevant news.
• U.S. Courts Bankruptcy Statistics
  This site provides bankruptcy filing statistics quarterly (by calendar and fiscal year), and for twelve month periods ending in March and June.

Annual Reports

• Mergent Online
• Public Register’s Annual Report Service
  Search by state, company name, industry.
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Go to Business, then choose “Company Financials”, then “Source”=NAARS Reports. Includes annual reports from 1972
• CAROL
  Supplies annual reports for U.S. and European companies
• Company web pages often include the most current annual report

Company Financials, Stock and Investment Sources

• Lexis Nexis Academic: Business
  See “Company Financial Reports” and “SEC Filings and Reports”. Information in Proxy Statements, 10-Ks and other SEC documents are included from 1987 to the present for U.S. companies; some international companies are included. There is also information from commercial sources, such as Disclosure, Worldscope and Hoover’s Company Reports.
• MergentOnline
  Includes information on public and private U.S. companies. Also includes PDF tearsheets from the Handbook of Common Stocks and Handbook of NASDAQ Stocks. To search and compare financial information on companies, use the Advanced Search, choose a database to search from Section 1, and then, “Financials” from Section 2. Has separate EDGAR (SEC) search pages.
• Moody’s Handbook of Common Stocks (1958-2001) Ref HG 4501 .M59
  Company financial information, including historic stock information.
• Handbook of NASDAQ Stocks Ref HG 4501 .M58
• Standard and Poor’s Net Advantage
  The UNO subscription includes a bundle of S & P products including Corporation Records, Stock and Bond Reports and others. Most data is for the current period only, but some archival documents are available back to 2002 or 2003. Stock quotes are delayed by 20 minutes in this service.
• Standard and Poor’s Stock Reports Ref HG 4905 .S44 (1983-present)
  Financial information on NYSE, ASE and OTC companies. Published quarterly, contains historic stock data. NOTE: use S & P Net Advantage (online resource) for current issues.
• Standard and Poor’s Stock Guide Ref HG 4905 .S64 (1967-present)
  Use S & P Net Advantage (online resource) for current issues.
• Value Line Investment Survey Ref HG 4501 .V26 or http://www.valueline.com
  Primarily an investment service providing financial information on large companies. Ask at the reference desk for password access to the database, or for the most recent print issue of the Survey.

Rankings

• Forbes
  Available through Business Source Complete/Business Source Premier. Do a search using the terms “Forbes” and “business enterprises—rankings” or “Forbes” and “corporations—rankings”
• Fortune (April issue, annually)
  Available through Business Source Complete/Business Source Premier. Do a search using the terms “Fortune” and “business enterprises—rankings” or “Fortune” and “corporations—rankings”
  Market Share Reporter REF HF 5410 .M35 2001
  Latest issue is 2001. For earlier issues, see library book stacks on third floor. For current information, see another resource in this category
• Mergent Online
  Within its Advanced Search query screen, Mergent allows you to create comparison charts in Excel formats for selected companies.

Philanthropy

• Foundation Directory Ref AS 911 .A2 F65