Business Information
General Resources
Business Directories
- BIG Book
Listings for businesses in the United States.
- Canada411
Address and phone listings for over 10 million people and businesses in
Canada. Search in English or French.
- CorpTech
Searchable database of 50,000 high-tech companies in the U.S. People Finder
services searches over 170,000 top-level executives of high-tech companies.
Requires paid membership for more in-depth company profiles.
- Europages: The European Business
Directory
500,000 company addresses from over 30 European countries. The site can
be viewed in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch.
- InfoSpace
Directory includes white pages, yellow pages, email addresses, classified
ads, eshopping, government, city guide, international information. Also
includes a reverse telephone lookup for finding names and addresses from
phone numbers.
- International Business Resources - Company Directories & Yellow Pages
Web links are alphabetical by country, continent or region; Includes a few
general business links too.
- Thomas Register
Searchable directory of manufacturers and their products.
Company & Industry Information
- Annual Reports Library
Website of the Annual Reports Library, founded in 1983. Includes links to
annual report listings on the internet, as well as tips for creating an
annual report.
- Better Business Bureau
For U.S. and Canada; locate contact information for your local BBB.
- CorpTech
Searchable database of 50,000 high-tech companies in the U.S. Includes free
demographic analysis reports by high-tech industry sectors, U.S. geographic
regions, and states. Requires paid membership for more in-depth company
profiles.
- Dun & Bradstreet
Some general economic analysis data is available for free. (U.S. Business
Expectation Survey data, Construction and Manufacturing Survey data). You
must pay for all other D&B information.
- Fortune 500 List
The current Fortune 500 list, company snapshots, CEO lists and more.
- Hoover's Online
Hoover's offers approximately 14,000 company capsules (brief company descriptions
and financials) for free, and approximately 4,000 company profiles (company
histories, strategies, market positions, major events, and other information)
available via online subscription.
- INC. 500 list
America's fastest-growing private companies. This site has the current 500
list plus a searchable database of all winners back to 1982.
- North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS)
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the
U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. This site includes
correspondence tables : NAICS to SIC and SIC to NAICS.
- SEC EDGAR Database
Includes publicly available filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange
Commission from January 1994 to the present. EDGAR filings are posted to
this site 24 hours after the date of filing.
- Standard Industrial
Classification Code
The 1987 SIC manual. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
have replaced SIC codes.
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Wright Research
Center
Detailed analysis on over 18,000 companies worldwide; Includes a detailed
company description along with financial data. You can search for a company
or browse by country or industry.
Magazines, Newspapers & News Services
- BusinessWeek Online
Selected stories are made available to users who aren't paid subscribers,
usually on the Monday after the issue is published online. 203 Library has
a subscription to the print copy.
- Chicago Tribune
- Business
Business news from today's Chicago Tribune.
- CIO
The resource for information executives. Includes fulltext of articles from
1994 to the present searchable by date or topic.
- Dow Jones.com
Today's business headlines, headline stories by industry, plus much more
available for free.
- The Economist
Includes selected fulltext from current issue. Free access to article abstracts
back to 1995 once you register a username and password.
- Fortune
Fortune magazine cover stories and Fortune company lists (including the
Fortune 500) are free. This site also includes a Career Resource Center.
- Inc.
Full contents of all 14 annual issues and 4 annual issues of Inc. Technology
back to 1988 are free.
- New York Times
Free access to today's issue of the NYT once you register a username and
password. Selected articles from recent issues are also available.
- Wall Street Journal
Must be a paid subscriber to access. WSJ Interactive does have a 2 week
free trial.
- Washington Post
- Business and Technology
Today's business news from the Washington Post.
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