Directories

• Hoover's Online (www.hoovers.com)
• Kompass: the Business to Business Search (www.kompass.com). Two million companies in 70 countries. Includes basci directory information, plus brief company background and links to company websites.

Profiles and Company Histories

• International Directory of Company Histories Ref HD 22721 .I63 1998
• 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 (Go to "Company Profiles" from the green banner). Includes overview, history, key employees, top competitors, major products and services, subsidiaries and news.

Articles in News, Trade and Scholarly Publications

• ABI Inform
  Accessible from OCLC First Search
• Business and Industry
  Covers newsletters, trade journals and business dailies
• 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

Company Annual Reports, 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.
• MergentOnline
  Includes information on public and private U.S. companies. 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
• CAROL (www.carol.co.uk)
  This site also has a great deal of free information on major bankruptcy cases, and other relevant news.
• The Scannery (www.thescannery.com)
  To locate international company and stock exchange websites