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COMPANY INFORMATION

Company, corporate, and non-profit information resources.  Use for sales prospecting and qualifying, competitive intelligence research, environmental analysis, etc.  Primarily U.S. focus.  Limited to organizations and pages that might contain secondary data of interest for marketing research; limited to sources that are free to use for basic information. 

Fact Sheets

compiled from annual reports, SEC filings, press releases, etc.

• Hoover's Online
  Free version provides brief company overview, company fact sheet, short list of key people, financial sheets, news stories.
• Zoom Information
  Free version provides brief company fact sheet, long list of key people with links to info about each person, cached web references.
• CorporateInformation
  Free version provides brief company overview, brief company fact sheet.
• Webster's Online
  Find SIC and NAICS codes of businesses in its listings.

Annual Reports

original company documents (PDF and/or html)

• Report Gallery
  Free version provides downloads of/online 10K and annual reports.
• IRIN
  Free annual reports (online and downloadavle PDF).

SEC Reports

• SEC EDGAR database search,
  At SEC itself.  Third-party tools below might be more friendly interfaces for some uses.
• PricewaterhouseCoopers EdgarScan
  PricewaterhouseCoopers interface to SEC EDGAR filings.  Find company overview, compiled financial information, and competitive industry ranking.
• SEC Info
  Fran Finnegan & Company interface to U.S. SEC EDGAR and Canadian CSA filings.  Find documents as filed.  Requires free registration after first use.

Non-profit Organizations

• GrantSmart Search
  Find a grantmaker's IRS tax return (public record).
• Foundation Center's 990 Finder
  Find a grantmaker's IRS tax return (public record).
• IRS Search for Charities
  Search publication 78, a list of organizations to which charitable contributions are deductible for federal income tax purposes.
• BBB Wise Giving Alliance National Charity Reports Index
  Find basic information about a charitable organization.

Company Names

• USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System
  Trademark search at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Domain Surfer
  Find character strings within domain names (e.g., "walmart" finds AmericansForWalMart.com and SaveAmericaFromWalMart.com).
• NameDroppers
  Find character strings within domain names.

Adverse Events

• NLRB Decisions and NLRB Administrative Law Judge Decisions and NLRB Regional Directors
  Research workplace and union issues.  Also research union reports.
• OSHA Establishment Search
  OSHA company inspections.
• OSHA Accident Investigation Search
• Better Business Bureau Reliability Report Search
  Find customer complaints about a company.
• BBB Wise Giving Alliance National Charity Reports Index
  Find customer complaints about a charitable organization.
• GSA Excluded Parties List
  Contractors who are excluded from receiving Federal contracts.
• Who's Suing Whom: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Edition
  Find patent, trademark or copyright cases pending in federal courts.
• FDA Warning Letters
• Corporate Crime Reporter
  Legal print newslette; website has listings re. issues of corporate crime.  See, for example, the Top 100 False Claims Act Settlements.
• Center for Immigration Studies' Employer Sanctions Database
  Businesses fined for employing illegal immigrants.
• World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms
  Firms and individuals ineligible for World Bank financing due fraud and corruption violations.

Consumer Written Reviews

goods, services, people, places

• Epinions.com
• RateItaLL
• PlanetFeedback
• My3cents

Other

• Indeed - search engine for jobs; enter company name to find what they're hiring
• Business Filings Databases
  Article with links to agencies in each U.S. state.
• USDA Supplier List
  Contact information of USDA qualified suppliers of food, farm, seafood and forest products.
• Federal Supply Schedule Listing Search
  GSA list of contractors who received Federal awards.
• Central Contractor Registration
  Search contractors registered to do business with the Federal government.
• Directory of Corporate Archives
  Contact information of those who maintain company archives.
• Political Campaign Donors
  Find individuals and companies who have donated to political campaigns.
• Money in Politics Database
  Find individuals and companies who have donated to political campaigns.
• Bankruptcy
  • BankruptcyData.com Search
    Find organizations that have filed for bankruptcy.  Major bankruptcies free, complete list and reports for subscription/fees.
  • American Bankruptcy Institute's BankruptcySales.com
    For-sale assets of bankrup estates.

Non-U.S.

• SEDAR - access documents in Canadian Securities Administrators
• Companies House Company Search - UK
• Insolvency.co.uk - UK reorganizations, bankruptcies, etc.

Last edited 18 JAN 2007

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