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Hoover´s Online

Search the database of over 16.5 million companies and 14 million executive biographies in this comprehensive business intelligence tool. Find in-depth profiles of the most important business enterprises in the world. Locate potential customers, analyze your market and competition. An additional feature, “Build A List,” allows you to create lists from a base of over 60,000 companies associated with specific industries, with links to each company. IPO Central contains everything you need to know about initial public offerings, including proposed and pending transactions.

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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest)

A source for major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,140 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.

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Business & Company Resource Center

Fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles (including financials and investment analyst insights, corporate histories & chronologies), industry overviews, business rankings, and information from business and trade publications. This database, produced by Gale, a leading publisher of business reference books and directories, includes content from many of their titles, such as Market Share Reporter, Business Rankings Annual, International Directory of Company Histories, Brands & Their Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations and more.

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Business Plans Handbook Collection

Search the contents of this multi-volume series to see complete business plans written by actual small business owners from all types of typical businesses. Business plan templates are included.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center

Takes you through the entire investing process from finding up-to-date information on over 30,000 stocks, mutual funds and exchange traded funds to evaluating them to see how they work together in a portfolio. Powerful screeners help you build a list of stocks and funds based on different criteria. Access Morningstar analyst reports for independent opinions on 1,900 stocks and 2,100 mutual funds. Use a variety of Morningstar’s well-known proprietary tools such as fund and stock star ratings, stock fair value estimates, investing style box.

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Reference USA

Select from a menu of searchable databases in the InfoUSA family of databases: US Businesses, with 14 million company listings; US residential, with 210 million households listed; New Movers, with over 15 million new residential listings; New Businesses, with over 2.6 million new business listings. Create prospective customer or potential competitor lists by SIC or NAICS codes, geographic area, size of company by number of employees or sales, executive title and more. Ability to do radius searching is helpful for sales cold calls. Results are downloadable to Excel for creation of mailing labels and customized letters.

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Simply Map

is a product of Geographic Research Inc., is a web-based mapping application that enables non-technical users to create professional quality thematic maps, tables and reports using powerful demographic, business and marketing data. Detailed custom reports can be generated for any location in the U.S. down to census tracts and block groups. In addition to the demographic data, information on usage and consumption for thousands of specific consumer products and services, plus over 1 million points of interest data, are available here.

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Uniworld

This authoritative source of information on American and foreign firms operating internationally covers 190 countries and 500 industries. American and foreign firms with branches, subsidiaries or affiliates that have a substantial interest in the US or in foreign countries are represented here.

This page was last modified on March 18 2011