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You can find various types of company information: directory (address, phone, key officers, with sales and employee size), financials, histories, corporation profiles and annual reports, for example. This is all dependent upon what information you need. These following web sites and databases allow you to retrieve different types of information. Read the descriptions and choose one which gives you the information you may need. Some may require off campus access capability.

Business Source Premier

Provides extensive company profiles, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports, and SWOT analyses.
 
EDGAR
Publicly traded companies are required to submit quarterly and annual financial reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. You can search the SEC's EDGAR database directly, or you can use S&P Net Advantage or Mergent to obtain these filings.
Mergent Online
Provides detailed corporate financial histories as well as country profiles and maps. Includes over 16,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) with full finanical filings, annual reports; over 20,000 international company data and their hard-to-get annual reports; custom report capability; and industry surveys for 19+ major industries groups.
Morningstar Library Edition
Provides comprehensive information on stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs, including financials, ratios, and analysis.
Reference USA
This database provides detailed directory information on businesses, residents, and health care providers. Basic company information (number of employees, status as public or private company, etc.) is also included.
 
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
This database includes extensive information on companies as well as industries. Company profiles and industry surveys are available.
Thomson Research
Enter either a company name or its ticker symbol, and do a search for the company of your choice. Financial data, annual reports, and news reports about the company are available.

Here are two direct links to companies with progressive Human Resources programs.

Cisco
SAS

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