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ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) includes Wall Street Journal articles, as well as articles from 1000 premier, worldwide business journals. Data is also available on 60,000+ companies via Hoovers.com.
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Business Source Complete offers Datamonitor SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) reports for companies, as well as Datamonitor industry reports. Users can also search full-text articles from over 1,000 journals in marketing, management, finance, and other fields.
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The Economic Census, from the U.S. Census Bureau, presents industry and business facts. An update appears every 5 years.
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With over 10,000 sources, this Dow Jone's service offers company and industry information, online newspapers (e.g., Wall Street Journal), and journal articles. Readers can also access multilingual content.
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This online database offers access to over 700 U.S. industry market research reports. The report topics range from car washes to management consultants. IBISWorld also incudes U.S. public company profiles. All of the reports can be downloaded in .pdf or MS Word format.
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For course 06T:194:EXW, Advanced Business Planning, a Librarian demonstrates how various resources — both commercial and governmental — can be applied to researching industries and markets.
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LexisNexis offers the Corporate Affiliations' database, with information on parent companies and their subsidiaries. In addition, LexisNexis provides journal and newswire articles, company profiles, and other resources.
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Visitors to this site have access to extensive, detailed market-research reports ranging from 200 to 400 pages in length with charts, tables, and graphs. These reports include information on a variety of consumer products, as well as consumer profiles and demographics.
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Mergent Online offers 15 years of data on U.S. public companies; the service includes company archives, equity and corporate bond portraits, and more.
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Users can find information on over 1,600,000 of the leading U.S. and Canadian public and private companies. Entries include company address and phone number, primary SIC / NAICS codes, principal executives, and links to company Web sites.
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Mintel presents over 600 published market research reports on European, U.K.-specific, and U.S. consumer markets.
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Users can research detailed information on major industries through NetAdvantage. This service also provides stock reports, company data, and more.
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Compensation tables are just one piece of information available from the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC (Edgar). This governement site includes electronic versions of forms filed by foreign and domestic corporations from 1996 through the present.
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This U.S. government site includes resources for searching and handling data, as well as publications, links to regional offices, etc.
| Research census data: | U.S. Census Bureau |
This guide presents data on over 100,000 public and private U.S. companies in alphabetic, geographic, and industry arrangements. Rankings of companies by sales within SIC / NAICS codes, as well as by State, appear.
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