LibGuides: MGMT 5110 Research Methods: Company Information

Company Profiles

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MarketLine: Company Profiles
Subjects: Business
Description: Database containing industry and public company profiles.
Contents: Company Reports; Financials; Industry Reports;SWOT Analysis

Business Insights
Provides a broad and detailed coverage of international business. It includes case studies, peer-reviewed articles, and data sets, coupled with references and tools for analysis.
Features of Gale Business Insights: Global include:
- Global company, country and business topic overviews featuring detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content
- Company histories and market share data
- Global industry research reports
- Full-text articles from academic journals, business periodicals, newswires and other media outlets
- Hundreds of economic and business indicators that allow for analyses of economies, companies and industries
- Case studies from Gale's CaseBase as well as from our publishing partners worldwide
- Interactive LiveCharts for economic and business indicators that let researchers generate their own analyses and custom charts for reports and presentations

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Business Source Premier
The most widely used business research database. Includes peer-reviewed articles and non-scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and more.
Company Investigator
Provides access to corporate filings, FEIN numbers, marijuana business content, dockets, and more. View relationships between organizations and people, identify the correct company or party for complaints, and search for businesses' criminal and civil records.
Mergent Intellect
Private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, industry profiles, and job search solutions.

The database includes data on over 245 million active/inactive global private businesses, daily updates on executives from over 100 million businesses including contact information, job title/function, and biography, etc. Its job search solution cover over 20 million employers in the U.S., and 400,000 employers in Canada and over one million in Mexico. It also includes access to contact information for over 98% of U.S. households, and reverse phone lookup capabilities. Partnering with Nielsen, it provides Prizm reports for demographics and behavior types of the U.S. household, and Nielsen Pop Fact reports on consumer demand and markets for locations planning. The database also provides Census data, global corporate family tree and direct access to First Research and Key Business Ratios.

For more information about the database, check Mergent
Statista Pro
Statistics and data platform that focuses on the economic, business, and marketing fields. The sources for the statistics come from a wide range of fields, including energy and the environment, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and many more.

Annual Reports and SEC Filings

EDGAR
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System where companies file reports and registration statements with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

News

Business Source Premier
The most widely used business research database. Includes peer-reviewed articles and non-scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and more.

Company and Industry Ratios

Company Ratios

Industry Ratios

D & B Key Business Ratios
Provides industry benchmarks for hundreds of public and private companies. It includes 14 key business ratios, such as solvency, efficiency, and profitability, for 800 different lines of business. Users can choose between a one-year or three-year set of ratios.
BizMiner
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Business industry information and reports including industry financial ratios, balance sheets, and detailed profit and loss statements. Also covers some hard-to-find small businesses that don't exist as large industries.