Business Resources: Individual Company Research

Business books, articles, and websites

Strategies for Doing Company Research

Company Research in ABI/INFORM

When in the ABI/INFORM database, go to the Advanced Search screen. Here you can search for individual companies:

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ABI/INFORM provides an unmatched collection of content types, delivering highly relevant and focused results required for business research today.
Combining the foremost business journals and the leading sources of online business news with exclusive, international and scholarly content, ABI/INFORM delivers a remarkable variety of content results to meet the needs of researchers at all levels. ABI/Inform includes the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Additional Company Research

It can be difficult to find information on private companies. Researchers can be limited to what they can find with regular internet searches, what they can find in newspapers and trade publications (search in ABI/INFORM and Business Source Ultimate), or possibly through industry/trade organizations. The following database is particularly useful for United States startup companies:

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PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations (i.e. private companies), including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies.
We currently have profiles for over 900,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, and we are adding information and in-house analysis daily. Whether doing company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, or private equity research, the database is searchable by advanced criteria in all categories.