Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
CBE Reference hours:
CBE Office PH45/45B
Oct 13 - Dec 2
Tuesday 1:30-3:30
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
Library Office:
Haggard Hall 226
Phone: 360-650-2061
Email: Elizabeth Stephan
AOL IM: buslibrarian
Facebook: Elizabeth Stephan
Locate general information
Geographic location; is the company U.S. or foreign-owned, a multinational corporation, or a subsidiary?
Corporate Officers, etc.
Company status: is it a public, private, or non-profit company?
Activity sector: is your company a producer, manufacturer, supplier, wholesaler, retailer, or service provider?
Directories
Directories provide basic information such as company name, address, phone/fax number, number of employees, sales volume, and lists of officers. Often, they also provide SIC and NAICS Codes, sales volume, a short but detailed company profile, history, and financial information. Many can be searched not only by company name, but by industry or other data.
Better Business Bureau / Better Business Bureau Covering US companies, this site provides brief information about companies. It includes company addresses, contact numbers, time in business and complaint / reliability history. It is most useful for finding information about private companies and non-profits.
Corporate Affiliations / Lexis Nexis Corporate Affiliations (CA) is a directory of public and private information. Includes basic company information (contact info, location, SIC/NAICS), a financial snapshot, executives, and a corporate tree (parents company, subsidiaries, etc.) CA does not have analysis or a narrative, but it is a great place to find information on privately-held companies.
The Corporate directory of U.S. public companies / Walker's Western Research • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4057 .C67
• Check Catalog This provides information on more than 10,000 publicly held US companies and foreign companies offereing American Depository Receipts.
Hoover's Handbooks
The Hoover’s series of handbooks provides a brief company overview, and includes company strategy, reputation, ownership, where the stock is traded, ticker symbol, the fiscal year-end period, and the address, telephone number and web site address of the company. Brief histories help provide a fuller picture of each organization, and provide lists of principal products, brand names, subsidiaries, and joint ventures, and information on key officers. In addition, Hoover’s provides financial information: sales, net income, income as a percent of sales, stock price, price/earnings ratio, number of employees, and key competitors, and market share /ranking. A graph shows ten year’s of stock price history (when available).
Hoover's.com / Hoovers Background information and financial data on public and private companies. This site includes links to Web sites, a register of thousands of companies on the Web and a directory of more than 50,000 public and private world-wide companies. It also includes quotes, stock charts, financials, key officers and competitors, press releases and Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Hoover's Online is searchable by company name, ticker symbol, keyword or last name. Not all the information is free of charge.
Hoover's handbook of American Business / Hoovers • Location: Haggard 2 Reference: HG4057.A28617
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Mergent Online / Mergent Mergent provides financial information on publicly traded US and international companies. Contains current and historical financial going back fifteen years. Includes SEC filings including 10Ks, proxies, insider trading information, and more. Mergent does not contain information on private or defunct companies. Limited to three concurrent users; if you are denied access, try again in a few minutes. Please log out when done.
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International Directories
Try the following resources first, then try the internet through International exchanges, or try searching regionally by company name or industry.
Hoover's handbook of world business / Hoovers • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4009.H66
• Check Catalog This volume includes 300 in-depth profiles of the most influential firms from Canada, Europe and Japan, as well as companies from fast-growing economies in countries such as Brazil, China and Taiwan. It includes lists of top global companies from FORTUNE and other publications, as well as lists of companies on many of the major stock exchanges.
Europages.com / Europages.com A company database of over 500,000 Europeans companies in 30 countries. It also gives key macroeconomic indicators and trade listed by industry sector.
Company Histories, Organizational Charts, & Mission Statements See also business history.
International directory of company histories / Antelman, Gretchen ... [et al.]. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD2721.I63
• Check Catalog This multi-volume set provides a thorough overview of a company’s direction over time, there is often a main entry, which is updated in subsequent volumes. Most companies chosen for inclusion in this directory have a minimum of $100 million in annual sales, and are considering leaders in their industry or geographical location. About 10% of the companies represented are private or non-profit. For this reason, you usually do not find small companies in this directory. Entries typically run three or four pages, but may be longer, and may provide a brief bibliography of books or articles about the company. The entries often include significant information on the brands the company produces.
Mission statement book : 301 corporate mission statements from America's top companies / Abrahams, Jeffrey. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD30.285 .A27 1999
• Check Catalog This contains the mission statement of the larger US companies. It also explains how mission statements are used and their importance and you can compare companies and their statements with each other.
Missionstatements.com / Missionstatements.com The world's largest collection of missions statements from large and small organizations, companies and nonprofits, as well as families, churches, and schools.. It is only searchable by category; the arrangement is under type of company rather than name.
Organization charts : structures of 230 businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations / Gale Research • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD38.153 .O74 2000
• Check Catalog This graphically illustrates the corporate structures of companies.
United States Securities and Exchange Commission / United States Securities and Exchange Commission Provides information on US publicly traded companies. Site also details regulatory information, including background on rulemaking and enforcement. Includes the EDGAR database and tips for investors in regard to the Internet. Note: SEC's EDGAR database requires all companies, foreign and domestic, to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. It has a delay on the release of filing data which ranges from 24-48 hours. The prospectus and proxy filings often contain information on market share and market size.
Value line investment survey / Value Line Inc. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HG4501 .V26
• Check Catalog Askf for Value Line at the Reference Desk in Haggard. There are three parts to this survey: Summary and Index, Selection and Opinion, and Ratings and Reports. It analyzes and tracks about 1500 stocks in about 75 industry groups. The Beta, and measures of timelines and stability, are among the more noteworthy information contained in the Survey. It gives high and low prices as well as relative price strength. The Selection and Opinion edition also provides a current analysis of the company. Each industry section includes a one-page summary. Be aware that Value Line industries do not follow either SIC or NAICS structure.
EBSCO - Business Source Complete EBSCO Business Source Complete provides full text articles and abstracts from a large selection of scholarly business journals. Topics cover every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
Table Base International in scope, Table Base contains tabular information gleaned from over 900 trade and business publications. Over 20,000 tables are added to this database each year. Only the tables are indexed but a reference is given to the article. Six Consortium Libraries share 5 dataports. If you get an error message, try again later. It usually means someone else is using it. [Resource no longer available]
