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COM 101 resources: Company & Industry Info

Resources for COM 101 presentations

Company & Industry Information

 

If you're off-campus, you'll be prompted to log in after you click a database name.

Database Business Source Premier* Mergent Online
Address & phone Yes Yes
Annual Report No Yes
Articles Yes Yes
Competitors Yes Yes
EDGAR/SEC No EDGAR
Employees Yes Yes
Executives Yes *** Yes ***
Financial data **** Yes Yes
History Yes Yes
Industry overviews Yes Yes
Products & services Yes No
Public or private companies Public Public
Searchable by kind of business & location Yes No
Searchable by SIC and/or NAICS Yes Yes
SIC/NAICS Yes Yes
Strengths & weaknesses Yes No
Subsidiaries/parent Yes Yes

* Use Advanced Search and select Company Reports in the Document Type menu.
*** BSP has brief biographies in Company Reports. Mergent has selected biographies from many sources.
**** Financial data covers a lot of material, including revenue, operating income, gross profit, assets and liabilities.

Some of these resources require logging in with your network username and password from off-campus.

  • American Consumer Satisfaction Index: Covers 43 industries in 10 sectors. The quarterly commentaries analyze the direction of several industries.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics by Industry: Industries at a Glance is updated frequently. There are also sections on employment including state reports.
  • Business Source Premier (Ebsco): Use Advanced Search and select Industry Profile in the Document Type menu. You'll see reports for selected industries, available for individual countries and a global overview. BSP also provides statistics from the U.S. Industry Quarterly Review, and articles from newspapers, trade magazines, and journals.
  • Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development: Overviews of selected industry clusters within Connecticut including aerospace, insurance, and tourism.
  • Mergent Online: Click on the Report Search tab and then Industry Reports. Search by industry and/or region, or choose from the list of reports. Browsing by SIC or NAICS + a country will result in an alphabetical list of companies engaged in the industry. Select as many as you like and generate a comparison chart using criteria like revenue, advertising, net income, location, and ratios.

You should definitely have a look at the company's website and Wikipedia. However, you will still want sources your instructor will consider reputable. Use Southernsearch or try the databases below.