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A Good Place to Start |
S&P Global Net Advantage, Gale Business Insights and Mergent Online provide a variety of company information in an easy to use format. |
Annual Report |
For annual report (10K) required by SEC, use Edgar, S&P Global Net Advantage or Mergent Online. For glossy annual report for shareholders, see the company’s website |
Background Information |
Encyclopedias and Ebooks: Britannica Academic, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Making Sense of Business Reference, Guide to Reference in Business and Economics, The Basic Business Library, |
Business Plan Information |
How To Write A Business Plan: A Step By Step Guide, How to Write A Business Plan |
Case Studies |
Business Source Complete or ABI/Inform Collection and limit results to "case study" under document type and add search terms |
Chief Officers |
Company's 10K, Mergent Online, S&P Global Net Advantage, Gale Business Insights |
Company Profiles |
Mergent Online, S&P Global Net Advantage, Gale Business Insights Business Source Complete |
Competitor information |
Mergent Online, Gale Business Insights At the company profile page |
Country Reports |
Mergent Online Under tab "Country Insight", Nexis Uni |
Customer Demographics/ Consumer Market Segmentation |
Mergent Online, Mergent Intellect, Census.gov Also check Industry Reports for segmentation information.
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Employee Information |
Gale Business Insights, You can also check the company's annual report
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Financials |
Mergent Online, Gale Business Insights S&P Global NetAdvantage |
Harvard Business Review |
Business Source Complete and search under "Publications" |
Harvard Business Cases |
Order through InterLibrary Loan |
History (company) |
Gale Business Insights Business Source Complete (Market Line Reports), Mergent Online |
Industry reports |
S&P Global NetAdvantage, Mergent Online, Gale Business Insights , Business Source Complete |
Investment reports |
Investext (Included in Mergent, Tab on Top of Main page) S&P Global NetAdvantage, Gale Business Insights |
Lawsuits and legal actions |
Lawsuit section of company 10k from website. Nexis Uni |
Long Term Plans |
10K, company website |
Market Share information |
Gale Business Insights |
Market reports |
Investext (Included in Mergent, Tab on Top of Main Page) Business Source Complete |
Marketing information |
Advances In Global Marketing: A Research Anthology : also search the library catalog for books on Marketing |
News and articles from trade journals |
ABI/Inform Collection, Business Source Complete, Wall Street Journal, Nexis Uni |
Operations information |
Gale Business Insights, Mergent Online, company web site |
Parent/subsidiary companies |
Gale Business Insights, Mergent Online, Business Source Complete, company web site |
Regulatory information |
Business.gov, the SEC, OSHA, the FDA and other government websites |
Scholarly research |
Academic, Scholarly or Peer-reviewed journals; electronic from databases ABI/Inform Collection, Business Source Complete, Academic Search Complete, Gale Business Insights |
SEC filings (10K, 8K, Def14A, etc.) |
The SEC’s search site Edgar, S&P Global Net Advantage, Mergent Online, the company’s web site |
SEC Violations |
SEC Litigation, Nexis Uni |
SIC or NAICS Code |
Naics.com, Business Source Complete |
Statistics |
Census.gov, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis |
Stock prices |
S&P Global Net Advantage, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, or company web site |
SWOT analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) |
Business Source Complete (Marketline Report or Advanced Search), Gale Business Insights (Link is on Company Profile page) |
Wall Street Journal fulltext online |
The Wall Street Journal via ProQuest |
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