Salem State College Library
Company Directories on the Web
Nancy Dennis
Business Reference & Instruction
Librarian
nancy.dennis@salemstate.edu; 978-542-6218
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Gateway Sites
Brint.com: The BizTech Network
http://www.brint.com/
A massive
portal to business, technology,
finance, knowledge, and management
resources. Powerful search engines facilitate searches across multiple
information
gateways for articles, news, definitions, discussions, Q&A, blogs, jobs, company
and
industry information, and government agencies.
Business 2.0
http://www.business2.com/b2/webguide
"Web Guide" links to a myriad of business topics,including
company information.
The "Company Information" link creatively mixes commerical
and academic sources
to give historical, financial, biographical, product, and
stock information.
Business.com: The
Leading Business Search Engine and Business Directory
http://www.business.com/
Contains more than 400,000
listings within 65,000 industry, product and service subcategories.
Six indexes: products, services, companies, news, people,
and jobs. Provides overviews, histories,
financial information,
executives, news, and stock information. Much information is derived
from Hoover.com.
Goliath
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/page_home
Covers 450,000 public
and private companies. International in scope. Free company
information includes company name, firm type, location,
phone, web address, employees,
revenue, and primary SIC/NAICS.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) Business
and Management Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/business/
Provides free
access to high quality resources on the Internet. International in
scope, but
emphasizes Great Britain. Each resource has been evaluated
and categorized by subject
specialists based at UK universities. The Company Information
section lists sites for
annual reports, company directories, data; governmental
bodies, news sources, journals,
organizations, and meta sites.
Wall Street Executive Library: The World's Best Business Sites!
http://www.executivelibrary.com/
This selective, but exhaustive list by MSI Management
Strategies, Inc., aims to be "a public
directory that lists only the most relevant and useful business sites." Click on "Company and
Industry Research, Strategy" to retrieve a list of useful mega business
sites, and sites from
recognized publishers like Hoover's, Dun
& Bradtreet, and Forbes.
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Directories of Companies: U.S.
BizWeb Business Guide to the Web
http://www.bizweb.com/
A web business guide to 46,290 Internet-based companies listed in 208 categories.
Columbia Journalism Review. Who
Owns What
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
Shows who owns what magazines, newspapers, radio stations,
television stations, cable
companies, and book publishers, and what subsidiaries they own.
D&B
Small Business Solutions
http://smallbusiness.dnb.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1123797432
Lets you look up U.S.
companies and track customers, suppliers, competition, and prospects.
Free and premium
features.
Gateway to Secretaries
of State by LLRX
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup29.htm
A helpful gateway to corporate information
filed with Secretaries of States. Provides a
state-by-state summary of what documents are required to be filed;
and which are searchable
via the web. Provides links to specific areas providing documents.
Lycos' Companies Online
http://yp.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos4
Using software
powered by Dun & Bradstreet, Lycos' Companies Online is a reliable
source for
company names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, executives,
annual sales, number of
employees, and other basic information.
Maccrae's Blue Book
http://www.macraesbluebook.com/
A buyers' guide to the products of over 120,000
verified industrial companies. Entries include
addresses, web sites, certification, products description,
list of contacts, list of products,
and catalog links, if available.
MNI Guide to U.S.Manufacturers,
Supplies, and Business Services
http://mniguide.com/
Covers "who makes it, who supplies it, and who does it"
for 600,000 American businesses.
National Association of Secretaries
of State
http://www.nass.org/sos/2004roster.html
"NASS Business Registration and Filing Services"
page provides access to state
business and corporations divisions in a single location. Each state
files a variety of documents
including corporate filings, UCC financing statements, trademarks,
professional licensing
applications and other legally required special filings.
SEC Filings and Forms (EDGAR)
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file
registration statements, periodic reports,
and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Searchable by
company name, back to 1994.
ThomasNet
http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html
The online version of the Thomas
Register, a directory of 170,000 U.S. and Canadian companies.
Arranges companies by product lines and states/provinces.
Also provides databases of CAD
drawings and industrial suppliers. There is also a register
of European manufacturers.
Among the special features is "Product News."
Yahoo's Directory
of Company Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Directories/
Exhaustive listing of
companies, and lists of companies, by product category. Links to Hoover's
for many company profiles.
Yahoo! Finance Company
and Fund Index
http://biz.yahoo.com/i/
Provides company profiles from Capital IQ. Provide
information on over 9,000 public companies,
including contact information, business summaries, officer
and employeee information, sector and
industry classifications, business and earnings announcement
summaries, and financial statistics
and ratios.Yahoo adds stock charts based on historical data from
Commodity Systems, Inc.
(CSI), and links to other resources.
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Directories of Companies: Outside the
U.S.
Canadian Business Map
http://commercecan.ic.gc.ca/scdt/bizmap/interface2.nsf/engdocBasic/0.html
Select "Company Directories." Includes links to numerous web
based directories.
Canadian Trade Index
http://www.ctidirectory.com/
A comprehensive list
of over 30,000 Canadian manufacturers, distributors and industrial
service
companies.
Europages:
The European Business Directory
http://www.europages.net/
Claims to list 550,000 companies in 35 European countries.
Searchable in 7 languages by
product, company name, or business sector.
Qualisteam
http://www.qualisteam.com/
International directory of financial
institutions and markets.
Sedar
http://www.sedar.com/
SEDAR is the System for Electronic Document
Analysis and Retrieval, the Canadian version
of EDGAR. Makes company/investment fund profiles, SEDAR public
securities filings,
and the news available.
Strategis.gc.ca:
Canada's Business and Consumer Site
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html
Helpful databases of Canadian companies.
The main Canadian Company database is
complemented by separate listings for federally incorporated companies
and Canadian
importers.
Thomas Global Register
http://www.tgrnet.com/
Allows searching from among 700,000
manufacturers and distributors organized by 11,000
product classifications in 11 languages and from 28 countries. Registration
is required, but
information is free.
Thomas Global Register Europe
http://www.tremnet.com/
A directory of 210,000
manufacturers and distributors from 21 European countries, classified
by
10,500 products and services categories.
TimBukOne
http://www.timbukone.com/
Covers public companies in South Africa.
Free for limited and personal use. Registration is required.
Provides direct links to the websites of JSE (the South African
Stock Exchange) listed companies;
interactive organization charts detailing the subsidiaries
of a company; access to hundreds of annual
reports, interims, prelims, and circulars; and access to thousands
of SENS news articles as published
by the JSE.
World Box
http://www.worldbox.net/free_financial_info.asp
Offers free links to major Swiss companies who make their
Financial Statements available over
the Internet.
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Massachusetts
Companies
Massachusetts
Software Industry
Researchers can search the membership
directory of the Massachusetts Software
Council. Members include companies active in the computer software and hardware,
Internet, communications, bio-IT, and emerging technology markets.
They range from
one-person entrepreneurial ventures, to established corporations
with thousands of
employees.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Corporations
Division Database.
http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/corpsearchinput.asp
The Corporations Division of Secretary of the Commonwealth
is a repository for certain
records of
approximately 275,000 business and nonprofit corporations and
approximately 60,000 limited
liability entities organized or registered to do business in
the Commonwealth. The Corporate
Database tells key officers, whether a company is public or private;
and stock information.
Searchable by company name, individual, identification number, and
filing number.
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Telephone Directories
192.com
http://192.com/
"The largest UK Directory
Enquiry Service."
Infobel World: Telephone Directories
on the Web
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/
International in scope.
Superpages.com
http://www.superpages.com/
Produced by Verizon. Covers local and small businesses across a wide spectrum.
English and Spanish. Gives address,
driving directions, phone number, web site,
and categories of services/products.
Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com/
An Internet yellow pages.
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