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Finding Business and Company Information

Finding Business and Company Information. What do you need?. Industry News? Company Overview? Company History? Financial Information?. Who writes about this kind of information? Where do they write about it?. Your Search. Make sure you’ve identified the name of the parent company

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Finding Business and Company Information

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  1. Finding Business and Company Information

  2. What do you need? Industry News? Company Overview? Company History? Financial Information? Who writes about this kind of information? Where do they write about it?

  3. Your Search • Make sure you’ve identified the name of the parent company • Not a brand name • Not a subsidiary

  4. Your Search Is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fisher Price Mattel Stock Symbol = MAT

  5. Your Search Is a division of KFC US Yum! Brands Stock symbol = YUM

  6. Your Search • You will find the most extensive information in our resources if: • The company is publically owned • The company is U.S. based

  7. Searching in the Databases • Databases containing business news and reports • EbscoHost Business Source Premiere • Proquest • Mergent

  8. Searching in Business Source Premiere • Accessed from the Ebsco Menu • Contains ---

  9. Searching in Business Source Premiere SWOT analysis from DataMonitor

  10. Searching in Proquest • Proquest • Regional, national and international business news • Scholarly and trade publications • Wall Street Journal • Hoovers Company Records

  11. Searching in Proquest Select the “business” subject area

  12. Searching in Proquest-by publication Search “Wall Street Journal” by publication type limiter

  13. Searching in Proquest • Hoovers Company Records • Profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries • Company overview • Company history • Related industry information • Historical financials

  14. Searching in Proquest – Hoover’s Select “Hoover’s” from the databases

  15. Searching in Proquest – Hoover’s

  16. Searching in Mergent • Mergent • Country Profiles • United States Company Database • International Company Database

  17. Searching in Mergent • Company Database contains – • Business Summary • Company Executives • Financial Data • Annual Reports • Competitors • Company News

  18. Searching in Mergent • Search by Company Name or ticker symbol.

  19. Searching in Mergent • Search by Company Name or ticker symbol.

  20. Information in Books Search the online catalog Search e-books

  21. Searching E books – Gale Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library

  22. Searching E books – Gale Reference Library Select “Business”

  23. Searching E books – Gale Reference Library

  24. Searching E books – Gale Reference Library

  25. Libguides Accessed from the library’s home page:

  26. Libguides Business Resources guide lists databases and internet resources useful in business research

  27. Internet Resources • Company web sites • Government sites such as • Securities and Exchange Commission • http://www.sec.gov/ • Census related sites such as: • Statistical Abstract http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ • Census of Manufacturers http://www.census.gov/econ/index.html

  28. Internet Resources • Annual Reports available on the web • http://www.annualreports.com/ • http://www.annualreportservice.com/ • News Sites

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