Company & Manufacturing Research

Provides expanded coverage and advanced search capabilities of the SEC's EDGAR database.  Enables users to perform keyword searches on up-to-the-minute SEC filings, which include 8K, 10K, 10Q, etc. reports from companies.

Provides access to over 2,200 annual reports and other financial information for national and international companies.  Covers the majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

Provides direct links to annual reports for companies in Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia and United States.  Reports can be accessed by company name, industry, region, or stock exchange.  Also has Investor Relations links to stock exchanges all over the world.  Registration (free) is required to gain full access to this site.

Organized by company name, ticker symbol, country, industry and country, and companies within U.S. states, this site provides access to a wide range of business and financial information on publicly-traded or privately-held, foreign or domestic companies.  Includes currency exchange rates, top 100 companies in five different categories, and definitions.   Registration (free) is required in order to gain full access to this site.

Discover basic financials about the 500 top private companies in the United States.  The site also links to home pages and provides address information as well as the name of the CEO.

A comprehensive and basic introduction to reading the financial statements or annual reports of a company.  Prepared by IBM.

Provides brief company descriptions, sales and income figures, employment size, stock charts and analyses, news articles, and links to company websites for over 14,000 public and private companies worldwide.  Also has IPO Central that gives information on the initial public offerings of companies that have gone public or filed to go public.

First published in 1893 as America's original industrial directory, it is now the Industrial Directory of YellowPages.com and is America's fastest growing industrial directory.  Owned by BellSouth and AT&T, YELLOWPAGES.COM is the fastest growing online and search directory in the U.S., serving over 70 million searches a month across their network.

Provides an interface to public filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission (EDGAR) and the Canadian Securities Administrators (SEDGAR). Currently a free service, what sets this site apart from other free EDGAR databases is, for example, it includes filings from Canadian public companies. It offers several navigational features that link related filings and facilitate wading through voluminous documents.  It also provides more search options, such as name searching.

Offers an eight-step guide on researching a company on the web.  The Virtual Chase website is owned by the law firm Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, and offers articles, guides, teaching materials, an alert service and more on Internet research strategies and resources mainly in the legal field.

Information about industrial products or services and the companies which manufacture and distribute them.  Covers more than 189,000 U.S. and Canadian companies. Registration required for access to site.

Presents the top business lists from Forbes and Fortune magazines from 1997 to the present year of the largest corporations in America.  Users can get lists sorted by a number of different rankings as well as relevant information on these companies.

The website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides financial and other information on public companies for individual and corporate investors.  Includes the EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) database which has the full text of numerous corporate filings, such as 8-K's, 10-K's (annual reports), 10-Q's, and more.  Coverage is from 1994 to the present.