COMPANY INFORMATION
There are several ways of finding company information at the Madison Public Library in books, magazines, online databases, and the Internet.
Most of the books
are on the business table and a few are at the reference desk.
The reference desk is
always staffed so don’t hesitate to ask for
information on a company.
Following is an outline of the types of resources you will find here and on the Internet :
Addresses and phone numbers or major
personnel for a company?
Directories:
published by Standard and Poor’s and
Dun and Bradstreet. These are
arranged alphabetically, geographically, and by type of industry.
Online database:
REFERENCE USA
Each listing can
be sorted by business name, location,
yellow page heading, SIC code and size of operation.
Residential, Health Care Professional and Canadian Residential and Business
information is also available. Information is culled from current
telephone books and
includes officers or manager, range of sales, number of employees, and branch or
headquarters location. There is also phone, fax and toll free numbers (when
available), address, and year the first ad appeared. In addition, a map showing
the location is available.
From a remote location printing and downloading
will be limited to 25 records.
Financial information and the history of a company:
Hoover's Directories, annual reports ( we have
the major companies), the
Wall Street
Journal,
Barrons, and the
New York Times
(we have an index to the articles).
EBSCOhost,
an index to 3200 magazines and newspapers (1000 of them in full text), is another possible
source of articles on the company which you are researching.
Click to access this from home.
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Specialized directories?
We have specialized directories of: consultants, service companies, computer
companies, trade names, manufacturers, banks, advertising agencies, New Jersey companies,
franchises, mail order companies, and parent companies with their subsidiaries. To get
information on industries, check the Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of
Emerging Industries, U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook, and RMA Annual Statement Studies.
For investment information, check the following: Morningstar Mutual Funds, Value Line Investment Survey, Standard and Poor’s Stock Reports, Standard and Poor’s Outlook,and Kiplinger’s Retirement Report.
The Internet is also a very good place to go to for information on companies. Many companies have their own home pages. To find these, try
http://www.companyname.com or http://www.companyinitials.com (ie. www.cisco.com or http://www.continental.com).
For stock prices and financial information on companies, try
a variety of sites such as:
http://stocks.internetnews.com/
or
http://www.npr.org/
For businesses in New Jersey, search http://www.state.nj.us/njbusiness/index.shtml This page provides direct links to pages that may be of interest to the business community of New Jersey.
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updated 4/14/08