Library Guides: Companies &amp; Organizations: Company Directories

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Reference Solutions
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Offers several searchable database modules containing detailed information on more than 16 million U.S. businesses and employers; 89 million U.S. residents; 1.2 U.S. health care providers; 2.1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents.

Company Directories provide basic information such as address, key executives, and brief company details.

Lexis/Nexis: Company Profiles
The replacement for LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as alerts and saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
ThomasNet: Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Multimedia company profiles, new supplier refine options and revolutionary product sourcing by specification.

Uniworld
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Up-to-date multinational business contact information with listings in over 200 countries. Includes information on American firms operating in foreign countries and foreign firms operating in the United States.
D&B Hoovers [formerly D&B Business Browser]
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Aggregate database of company, business news, and industry information.

NOTE: Please clear your cache and cookies or use an incognito browser window if you are unable to access the database as usual.

Europages
This site contains a free database of 150,000 companies selected from 25 European countries. Each entry lists the company.

Plunkett Research
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Offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, and company lists. Detailed industry reports, company profiles, and numerous statistics are available.
Mergent Online
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Financial statements, company news, industry analysis, historical information on M&A activity, country information, product and brand names, historical ratings, US executive biographies and compensation details, historical daily stock pricing back to 1925.