BCOM 350 Crisis Communication Strategies: Company Research

• Database features one-stop shopping that includes strategic initiatives, business and geographic segments, strengths/weaknesses, and ratio comparisons
• One of the best resources for company information, this also has some industry reports (Datamonitor and Fredonia Focus Reports)
• Industry reports can be seen by clicking on the SIC and NAICS codes in the company record or by searching in the industry box
• When you are looking at an industry, you can view the leading firms in that field by clicking on "Peer Analysis" on the left hand side. This allows you to search the entire database by that particular SIC or NAICS code.
  
  

• Orbis has information about 40 million companies, including:
• 18 million European companies from 46 countries
• 16 million U.S. and Canadian companies
• 6.5 million South and Central American companies
• 1.3 million Japanese companies
• 300,000 Chinese companies
• 90,000 African companies
• Orbis includes information about 30,000 banks and 8,000 insurance companies

PrivCo contains business and financial research for over 600,000 non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. Search for Venture Capital (VC) fundings, private Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals, Private Equity (PE) deals, and general company information. Private company profiles contain financials, corporate structure, key contacts, investors and industry information.
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ABI/INFORM contains articles from thousands of newspapers and key business magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, the Economist, and the New York Times. It also contains papers from leading academic journals across all major business disciplines.