Database Description

Business and Company Resource Center is a one-stop resource of company and industry information. Its main components include:

Company Profiles
The database contains profiles of hundreds of thousands of international and U.S. companies, including detailed contact information, corporate parent/sibling relationships, executives, and merger and acquisition data.

Newspaper and Journal Articles
Users can access periodical articles from the most respected industry, regional, business, and marketing journals and newsletters; business sections from 100 newspapers

Histories
This unique feature provides detailed histories and chronologies for 4,650 companies worldwide. Histories are written in a detailed essay style and include additional reading citations. A chronology is organized in timeline fashion, providing overview-style abstracts of key events by year.

Investment Research Reports
The database includes Investext Select ASCII records, a highly regarded source for original investment data, primary source company and industry research, and company reports. It also contains Moody's history and debt reports from Thomson Financial Securities

Financial Data
Users have access to in-depth data on the company's financial standing, including:

  • 20-minute delayed stock quotes
  • Business overviews
  • CDA/Investnet insider buying and selling activity
  • CDA/Spectrum major shareholders information
  • Current investment ratings
  • First call consensus estimates
  • Key measures, balance sheets
  • Liquidity and other key ratios
  • Performance
  • Pricing momentum
  • ST interest shares and ratios
  • Valuation/profitability

Rankings
The database contains various rankings for the company within its industry.

Suits and Claims
Users can access a database of civil claims that have been filed against companies in the area of human resources. These cases have been transcribed by lawyers into plain language making them easily understood by laypeople.

Industry Overviews
These descriptive briefs provide context for company research. Each overview provides an executive summary, market value, market volume, market share and sectors, competitive analysis, distribution and forecast data for specific industries.

Products and Brands
This section includes a complete listing of the products and brands that a company owns, makes or sells.

Associations
This data set provides profile records and contact information for trade associations within the company'sindustry. The database contains information on more than 8,000 trade associations.

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