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BUS 483: Entrepreneurship
Course Instructor: Palin
Librarians: Amy VanScoy & Hyun-Duck Chung
Directory Databases:
- Reference
USA
Information on over 10 million U.S. businesses searchable
by company name, location, and detailed industry category. Lists size of company,
top personnel, year established, type of business, credit rating, yearly sales
ranges and more. - Thomas Register of American
Manufacturers
- (username: business, password: busref)
- Directory of American and Canadian manufacturers of industrial
products and services.
Search by:
- company name (156,914 on the Internet and the print collection at D. H. Hill)
- brand name (over 135,000)
- product (over 400,000 unique products listed).
- Try Thomas Food Register to find more than 22,000 US and
Canadian suppliers of food products, ingredients, equipment, and supplies listed under 5,800
product categories.
- Thomas Global Register is a directory of 500,000 manufacturers
and distributors from 22 countries.
- Hoover's Company Profiles
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Available through Nexis Lexis. From main search page > Sources > Find Sources > Find a Source grey search box > type in "hoover's".
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Provides in-depth profiles of 2,600 public and private companies
in the US and around the world. Each profile provides summary of operations,
history, list of officers, products, key competitors and up to ten years of
financial data. This database also includes Hoover's Company Capsules which
provides basic information on more than 10,000 public and private companies.
- Create a Company List in Lexis Nexis
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From the main search page > Business > Dossier Create a Company List.
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This section of Lexis Nexis lets you search by company name, location, zip code, line of business, business
size, sales, employees, headquarters, and other variables.
- Investext
Includes abstracts or full text of investment reports and forecasts for more than 11,000 US and international
companies and for 53 industries prepared by Wall Street and international brokerage firms.
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