An Annotated Resource Guide
Do you know the SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code and/or the NAICS code for the company's line(s) of business? Is it a parent company or a subsidiary of another company? Do you want information on brands or about a specific brand? Is it a publicly owned (traded on a stock exchange) company? Is it privately owned? Is it a manufacturing company, a service company, a consulting firm, etc.? Is it a large company, or a smaller, local business? Is it a U.S. company, located in another country, or international/multinational? Are you looking for company personnel/officers information? Are you looking for market share/industry related information? Are you looking for news and articles on the company?
North American industry classification system, United States. 1998.
FM-1-REF 317.3 U588sa
SIC codes are four-digit codes that the government used to use to organize industry information; many other sources classified businesses using these codes. The SIC codes went through a major update and reorganization to become the North American Industry Classification System, or NAICS. Most industries were recoded, and new codes and classifications were added. The SIC code system used only 4-digit codes, while NAICS uses 4, 5, and 6 digit codes, additional digits being added to specify sub-sections of the 4-digit code. The printed NAICS manual gives explanations, illustrative examples, and cross-references for the codes.
Most works continue to use the old SIC codes to classify businesses,
and older works all use the SIC codes. There are tables of NAICS-to-SIC
and SIC-to-NAICS code conversions online at: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm.
Keyword searching interfaces to the NAICS are available at:
Hoover's handbook of American business. 2001. 2 vols.
FM-1-REF 338.74025 H789a 1999
Compact, full-page profiles of American companies include a thumbnail
description ('Overview'); history ('When'); major personnel information
('Who'); address and geographical business data ('Where'); products, divisions,
brand names, sales, operations (what), rankings, competitors listed in
this book, and stock price and financial information (how much. Cross indexed
by industry, by headquarters location, and by brands, companies,
and people named. With a helpful section on use of data and rankings
by sales, profit, value, number of employees, as well as other Hoover's-produced
rankings and rankings from other publications.
D&B million dollar directory / Dun & Bradstreet.
Latest Edition. 5 vols.
FM-1-R-REF 380 D897mia
Covers large ($1M in sales or more, 180 employees or more) public and
private companies. Gives headquarters address, ticker symbol/exchange,
sales, # of employees, bank, SIC code(s)/line of business and major officers/directorship
information. Triangle next to business name indicates a publicly owned
company; square indicates private ownership. Business entries are arrranged
alphabetically in the Series volumes. There are geographic and industry
(by SIC) cross-reference volumes.
Thomas register of American manufacturers and Thomas register catalog
file. Latest edition. Multiple volumes.
FM-1-REF 605.8 T463
A "yellow pages" of manufacturers. Red-labeled volumes list companies
by product type, with lots of ads, many with product pictures. Yellow-labeled
volumes give brief company profiles (address, description) . Blue labelled
volumes are facsimiles of company catalogs (look for "catalog" symbol in
the product or company volumes).
Also accessible via the web: http://www.thomasregister.com/
. The Thomas Register online allows you to search by product/service, by
company name, or by brand name. Searching by product gives you a chart
listing the related terms with the number of company profile entries, catalog/website
records, online ordering addreses, CAD drawings, literature by fax contacts,
and email contacts, for each term. Clicking on the term gives you a list
of companies with links to company profile entries, etc. as available.
Company profiles give address information, description of business, and
sometimes assets and employee information, as well as links to catalogs/websites,
online ordering, CAD drawings, literature by fax, and email addresses,
whichever are available.
A reference for researching "who owns whom". Covering parent companies
with more than 10 million in sales, their subsidiaries, and affiliates.
Separate volumes cover U.S. Public, U.S. Private, and International Companies.
Entries for main parent companies generally include address, phone, email/website,
stock symbol and exchange, brief financials, # of employees, brief business
description, SIC codes, names of key personnel and board member, legal
firms and auditors, followed by information for affiliates, divisions,
joint ventures, and subsidiaries.
Use the Master Index volumes to find the company you are looking for:
there are indexes by company names, brand names, geographic location,
type of business by SIC codes, and personnel arranged by 'corporate responsibilities'
(look up sales and find an alphabetical listing of sales officers).
EDGAR database of company information
US Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Includes full financial data from reports, especially the 10K
report, submitted by most publicly traded corporations. (See EDGAR
information for explanations of exceptions). Search by company name. Documents
are posted as HTML; sometimes PDF version are available also.
Annual Reports
Annual reports for companies are often available on the company's web
site. The Annual Report Gallery, online: http://www.reportgallery.com/
has a good collection of annual reports of Fortune 500 companies.
Mergent industrial manual.
FM-1-REF 332.6 M817a, pt. 2. 2 vols.
Multipage financial, history, and other management
information about publicly traded industrial companies. (Use the Alphabetical
index to find your company.) Further information may be included in the
"Corporate Visibility" sections at the front of the volume.
Mergent OTC .... manual [s]
FM-1-REF 332.6 M817a, pt.6 & 7
Gives financial, history, and other management
information about over-the-counter traded industrial (Moody's OTC Industrial
Manual) companies and OTC companies not traded on NASDAQ. Further information
may be included in the "Corporate Visibility" sections.
The Value line investment survey.
FM-RESERVE 332.6 V215 (Current year on reserve;
back issues in microfiche)
Gives information about publicly traded companies.
Use the Summary & Index (first issue in the Ratings & Reports section)
to find recent prices, rankings, and the page numbers on which more information
appears (bold type in the Ratings & Reports volume, plain in the Selection
& Opinion volumes). Information includes financials and some news.
Ward's business directory of U.S. private
and public companies. 2001. 8 vols.
FM-1-REF 338.74025 W266
Covers 90,000 larger US-based companies, both public & private. Includes subsidiaries. Includes address, email and/or website URL, parent company (if any), sales, employees, type (public w/ticker symbol; or private), SIC code, NAICS code, text description, and officers where available. Vols 1-3 are the alphabetical listings; Vol. 4 includes geographic listings, and some ranking tables; Vol. 5 ranks companies by sales within SIC Code; volumes 6 & 7 give state rankings by sales within SIC code; volume 8 gives rankings by sales withing 6-digit NAICS code. Also gives several analyses of top company rankings (vol. 4).
Arranged alphabetically by type of consulting; indexed by geographic area, company name and consulting activities. Includes address, email, web page URL, officers/executive, consulting activities, publications and workshops information. Revenues, geographic area and branch information are often included.
Membership directory - American Consulting
Engineers Council. 1997-98
FM-1-REF 620.025 C758d
Directory of members of association of consulting
engineers and land surveyors. Arranged by state chapters. Includes address
information, names of principals, description of firm activities, number
of personnel and ownership information.
Updated by the ACEC membership database at: http://206.135.109.15/
Try also the firm directories on the National
Society of Professional Engineers site: http://www.nspe.org/fm-home.asp
D&B directory of service companies. Latest edition.
FM-1-REF 338.761 D926 2000
Targeted toward large (50+ employees) service companies, including consulting firms (selected by SIC code). Includes address, sales, number of employees, SIC Codes, and officers. Listed alphabetically (white pages). Cross referenced geographically (yellow pages) and by SIC code (blue pages).
Mergent transportation manual.
Mergent public utility manual.
Mergent bank & finance manual.
FM-1-REF 332.6 M8176
Covers transportation companies (railroads, airlines, trucking and shipping), public utility (natural gas, electric, and telephone), finance (banks, insurance companies, and other financial firms) companies. Includes very detailed financial, operations, and audit information. More information (submitted by companies) may appear in Corporate Visibility sections at the front of the volumes. Use alphabetical indexes to find companies by name.
Thomson/Polk bank directory. Latest ed.
FM-1-REF 332.1058 P7692b
World wide banks and bank offices, including 1000 US banks, listed geographically by town within countries. Includes address information, supplemented with charter type, ownership, subsidiaries, key officers. Expanded entries for some banks have hours, branches, officers, and balance sheets.. Cross indexed by institution name. Also see Mergent Bank and Finance Manual FM-1-REF 332.6 M8176 2001
Harris Pennsylvania industrial directory. Latest ed.
FM-1-REF 330.9748 P415ia
Industrial /manufacturing firms throughout PA. Main entries for companies
are arranged geographically by towns within counties, and include address,
phone number, fax, corporate personnels, employees, size of the plant,
product description, ownership, SIC codes and headquarters/parent company
if any. (Annual sales figures are estimated and probably not accurate.)
Other sections list companies by SIC code, alphabetically by name, and
by product.
See also New York manufacturers directory (FM-1-REF 330.9747 N532ca) and New Jersey manufacturers directory (FM-1-REF 330.973 N548bb)
D&B regional business directory. Philadelphia.
Latest
ed. 3 vols.
FM-1-REF 330.1025 D926
Address, ownership, SIC code/line of business, sales, employees data for many businesses in the Philadelphia area, including parts of the Lehigh Valley as well as of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Main entries are arranged geographically, but there are supplementary lists alphabetically and by SIC code. Business rankings also included.
SuperPages.com:
http://www.superpages.com/
A Yellow Pages of businesses using data from American Business Information
and from phone books. Use the Detailed Search to search for name/address/phone
number of businesses by category, limiting by cite, area code, or zip code;
there is a distance search to search for companies in a category within
a certain distance of a place. The results will be divided into an 'advertisers'
and 'all listings' section.
Mergent international manual / Mergent.
FM-1-REF 332.6 M817i
Gives very detailed financial, history, and operations information on major international publicly traded companies. More information may be included in Corporate Visibility section. (Replaces Moody's International Manual.)
D&B Principal international businesses.
[Dun & Bradstreet.] Latest edition
FM-1-REF 380.1 P957
Covers 50,00 companies, arranged geographically; gives address, number of employees, sales, SIC code/line of business and chief executive information. Cross referenced by SIC code (yellow pages) and name (blue pages).
Hoover's handbook of world business. 2001
FM-1-REF 338.74025 H789b 2001
Two page profiles of world-marketcompanies. 'Overview'
gives a brief description of the company; 'when' gives a history; 'who'
lists major company officers; 'where' gives adddress; 'what' lists sales
and brands/units, 'how much' gives financials; and 'key competitors' lists
competitors. See Hoover's Online http://www.hoovers.com/
for updated information.
Directory of American firms operating in foreign countries. by
Juvenal L. Angel. 1999. 5th edition. 3 vols.
FM-1-REF 658.058 D598
Lists US companies with foreign operations. First section (vol 1) lists companies alphabetically, giving address, CEO, HR contact, # of employees, revenue, type of business, web site. Second section (vol 1-3) lists firms by country, giving foreign branch/office information (addresses, contacts).
Directory of United States importers. AND
Directory
of United States exporters. c1994
FM-1-REF 382.0973 U58a-b 1994
Address, some personnel, SIC, product, and port info for U.S. companies respectively importing and exporting.
Kompass. [Kompass Register: the Authority on British Industry]
ed.36, 1998, 3 vols.
FM-1-REF 605.8 U58
For British companies. Vol I lists companies by product/services. Vol
II lists companies geographically, by county and town, and is cross indexed
by company name. Entries include address, officers, nature of business,
web address, and sometimes # of employees, financial turnover, branch offices,
holding company. Vol III gives brief financial data for each company.
Directory of foreign firms operating in the United States. 2000. 10th edition.
FM-1-REF 658.058 D5981
Lists foreign firms with US operations, grouped by country. Alphabetically
arranged entries give the foreign firm on the left, the US affiliate on
the right, and include for both address, chief officer, service/product,and
sometimes # of employees and % of the affiliate foreign owned. Indexed
by company name and name of American affiliate.
Notable Corporate Chronologies, Susan B.
Martin. 1995
FM-1-REF 338.74 N899
Chronologies of company histories.Check alphabetical
index for your company.
Encyclopedia of consumer brands. c1994. 3 vols.
FM-1-REF 658.8343 E56
History, sales, etc. of 600 of the most popular product brands in the
US. Signed, multiple page articles give information on founding, products,
marketing, and circa 1994 prospects of each brand, as well as a short bibliography
of 'further reading'. 'At a Glance' boxes give one-paragraph description
and history, performance, competitors, advertising, and company addresses.
Divided into 3 volumes: Consumable products, Personal Products and Durable
goods; arranged alphabetically by brand name within volumes. Indexes by
Brand Names, Companies and Persons, Ad Agencies, and broad 'Brand Categories'.
The International Directory of Company Histories , Hoover's Handbooks and the Thomas Register Online include more information on brands.
Also see EDGAR, Annual Reports, Hoover's, Dow Jones Interactive, and
Lexis-Nexis for officer info.
Includes recent developments, industry basics, and company data, for multiple industry groups. Industry scorecards and valuations are at the front of each volume, followed by Industry outlooks and graphs. The bulk of each volume is the in-depth Industry Surveys, giving the current environment, industry profiles, references, and comparative company data. The Index to Companies on the first page lists the industry subject groups covered (you may need to check several volumes to find your industry).
Market share reporter. Latest edition
FM-1-REF 380.105 M345
Market share rankings/statistics by assorted criteria, collected from various sources. Use the Company Index to find mentions of your company. Use the Table of Topics to find the industry you are interested in. Data in tables varies.
World market share reporter. 2000-2001
FM-1-REF 380.105 W927
Like the Market Share Reporter, reports market rankings/stats from
various sources for world industries.
The Factiva system includes financial information and news about (publicly traded) companies. Use the Company tab and type in a company name or stock symbol to bring up links to full text of news, financials and other information. You can also search for mentions of the company through the 'Library' tab.
INFOTRAC
Academic Index
(Via the web-- choose from Databases page.)
Infotrac/Academic Index indexes general magazines and journals. Use the "Keyword search" option to search for mentions of your company. Some items will include the full text of the article; otherwise check ASA for the location of the journal.
Proquest/ABI-Inform
(Via the web-- choose from Databases page.)
The Proquest system, which includes many full text/full images articles, incorportates ABI-Inform, an index to business journals and magazines. Search by your company's name or the name of a person or product. For articles that do not have full text, check our journal holdings in ASA.
LEXIS/NEXIS
Academic
(Via the web-- choose from Databases page.)
This service is only available to currently enrolled
Lehigh students and faculty. LEXIS/NEXIS provides access to the full text
of newspapers and magazines, including many business publications. Use
the BUSINESS or NEWS sections to search for mentions of your company in
the news, as well as company financials and profiles. You will probably
have to search in multiple files to get the best coverage. Special feature
under 'Business' lets you compare companies.
January 1995, Revised and updated, April 2000, JAH