Library Guides: Marketing Research Guide: Finding Company Information

Company Information (ISU Ony)

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/Inform has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from 1000+ journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Includes the Wall Street Journal 1984-
BCC Research
Research reports about industrial/ manufacturing industries, including chemicals, advanced materials, energy, and cell biology. Reports are comprehensive treatments of specific areas in basic and applied sciences.
The Library's subscription only includes reports produced by BCC Research. It does not include content from BCC Research Partners.
Business: Insights
Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports. Coverage is 1980 to present.
Business: Insights tutorial
Business Source Elite
Similar to ABI/Inform, Business Source Elite includes full-text of academic articles, magazines, newspapers and other sources on all business topics. Includes full-text of the Harvard Business Review.
EBSCO Management Collection
This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 business magazines and journals. Includes Marketline company profiles - search "[company] and marketline"
Factiva
Includes 35,000 news sources in over 60 languages. Factiva includes news, wire services, company analysis, industry snapshots, and photos.
IBISWorld
A comprehensive collection of industry market research reports. Each report includes information about industry conditions, competitors, and supply chain Includes reports for the US, UK and China.
Key Business Ratios
Includes solvency, efficiency and profitability measures that feature 14 key business ratios for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.
Mergent Horizon
Mergent Horizon provides supply chain information about competitors, suppliers and customers for companies and industries. After connecting to the database, click on the “Supply Chain” tab to access Mergent Horizon.

Please note: Access to Mergent Horizon will be disabled on June 30, 2025. Content from Mergent Horizon will be available through Mergent Market Atlas.
Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect provides access to a comprehensive suite of business information that includes US and global business directories, D&B First Research Industry Reports, Nielsen PRIZM demographics, a job search database, and executive contact information.
Mergent Online
Find company financials, competitor, customer, and supplier information, recent analyst reports, and more on US and global companies. Also includes industry reports and country snapshots.

Please note: Access to Mergent Online will be disabled on June 30, 2025. Content from Mergent Online will be available through Mergent Market Atlas.
PrivCo
PrivCo contains data and business information on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. To access PrivCo without registering a personal account, click the “Direct Access” button.

Company Resources (Free)

Open Corporates
Open source directory of corporate data.
Yahoo Finance
A wealth of business information - news, company profiles, analyst coverage, ownership and financial data.
IQS Directory: Industrial Quick Search
IQS is comprised of product/service specific vertical website directories representing American industrial manufacturers ... .