• Full - text database
• Contains over 6,000 full-text sources
• Excellent source of company information
• Company profiles are available for public and private companies

1. click on Company Quick Search
2. Enter Company Name
3. Results include: Latest News Articles, Latest Trade Articles, Latest Press Releases, basic overview of the company, basic financial figures
4. For more detailed Company Information: Click on Financial Profile
5. Results include: Company description, Company History, Competitors, complete financial details of the company for the last four years

1. Click on Factiva Intelligent Indexing
2. Enter Company Name 
3. Highlight the company name and click on And
   

• All articles are full-text
• Can search Full-text, headline, or lead paragraph
• Can search newspapers, journals, magazines, TV and Radio transcripts, SEC Filings, Hoovers Reports, and Disclosure Reports

1. Click on Business
2. Click on Company Financial
3. Enter Company Name
4. Select report from the pull down menu - Disclosure provides a full report taken from the SEC Annual reports, Hoovers provides company profiles for public companies as well as larger private firms.

1. select either News or Business
2. Select General News (News) or Business News (Business)
3. Enter company name
4. Select date range
5. Click Search

• Contains full-text articles from scholarly journals as well as trade and popular magazines
• Uses subject and other fields
• Can Email full-text
• Use Advanced Search for more precise results

1. Select ABI/Inform and click on Continue
2. Select Advanced Search
3. Enter Company Name in Company/Org from the pull-down menu
4. Enter any other terms you are interested in (company profiles, problems, marketing, etc.) in the Subject Field from the pull-down menu

• The best source to find information on small firms, local companies, and subsidiary companies
• Information provided includes Address, Company size, sales, total employees, Executive biographies, SIC codes, parent company, private or public company, ticker symbol and company websites.
• Companies may be searched by name, location, size by employees, sales or any combination of above.

1. Enter company name
2. Click on Start Search

1. Enter Criteria you are searching for (company size, location by city, county, state or zip code, etc.)
2. Click on Start Search

·        Websites For Company Research

Vault Reports

www.vaultreports.com

Wet Feet

www.wetfeet.com

These sites provide descriptions of “What it is really like” to work for a particular company.  Hundreds of company and industry profiles are available. 

Hoovers

A searchable database Providing profiles and histories of companies.

·        Plunkett's Online
Each “Almanac” contains profiles of employers in each industry. Profiles include recommended majors for each company, benefits, employment opportunities, etc. Plunkett industry almanacs are available online to students, faculty, and staff of Cal State Fullerton.   

Prepared by Rob Sage: rsage@fullerton.edu
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