Private Company Information
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Hoover's Online
Over 1,800 company profiles and industry descriptions.
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VentureXpert
A database of private equity and venture capital deals, including details on firms, funds, and portfolio companies. Works best with Internet Explorer
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Reference USA
Includes basic profiles of over 13 million U.S. companies.
News Sites
Wall Street Journal (full content via the library's subscription)
The Economist (full content via the library's subscription)
Public Company Information
Recent annual reports and financial disclosure information for public companies is readily available on the web at sites such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.
Disclosures and annual reports not available through these sites can be accessed either by using one of the databases below (1994-present, with some historical coverage available through Proquest Historical Annual Reports) or by accessing the microfiche collection in the Business Library (pre-1995).
For more information about available company information resources, please see Business Library Subject Guide #4, Company Information.
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Mergent Online
Mergent -- Company profiles, financial statements, annual reports and SEC filings for public companies for the past 15 years. More info.
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Factiva
Factiva -- Company profiles, news, trade publications, and much, much more. More info.
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Business and Industry Database
RDS Business and Industry -- use this to search trade journals for news, rankings, statistics, etc. More info.
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Historical Annual Reports
Includes over 800 companies' annual reports available as searchable pdf images. Includes financial data, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, and more.
Articles in News and Academic Journals
The databases below represent core indexing and abstracting resources in business and economics. For a complete listing of business-related databases, follow this link. For a complete listing of all UC Berkeley database subscriptions, follow this link.
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Business Source Complete
Provides full-text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources.
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Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications.
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Factiva
Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources.
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LexisNexis Academic
Includes over 6,000 individual titles of international, national and local newspapers and wire services plus much more.

