Company Directories (for key players in the industry)
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Company Directories (for key players in the industry) |
| Special directories on industries can help to quickly identify the lead players, along with locations and sizes of plants. | ||
| Print Sources | ||
| Directory of Corporate Affiliations - New Providence, NJ: Reed Elsevier | Includes information on public, private, and international companies. | |
| Directory of Special Issues - Millerton, NY: Grey House Publ. | Indexes "special issues" which are valuable resources for the latest industry data – such as Buyer’s Guides and Industry Trends & Forecasts | |
| Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies - Detroit, MI: Gale Group | Lists
thousands of companies with a huge emphasis on private companies, along
with industry rankings. | |
| Web Sources | ||
| Corporate Information | An excellent starting point for company intelligence. Includes general message boards, Wright Analysis profiles, along with links to other services/sites. | |
| Selectory Online | Allows for sorts of more than 800,000 manufacturers by industry, city, state, SIC code, and zip code. (Fees required) | |
| Hoover's Online | A widely respected service that provides timely and detailed information on over 18,000 public and private companies. | |
| InfoUSA | Contains 14
million businesses which can be searched by business name, category, and
reverse search by phone. | |
| Internetnews.com | A comprehensive resource for a variety of data, including an excellent assortment of graphs and charts on financial performance. | |
| Kompass International | Includes over 1.9 million companies worldwide. | |
| Thomas Register | (Both print and web) -- Contains over 173,000 companies along with listings based on products and services. | |
| Zapdata (Dun and Bradstreet) | Search on 14 million U.S. businesses and 35 million contact names from the following basic selection criteria: location, company size, company type, and industry type. (Fees required) | |
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