A. For FEE:
• Dun & Bradstreet On-line: US & International company profiles, credit reports, risk-line reports. Both public and private companies. IMPORTANT: Some private companies will not have financial statements available. When ordering a Business Information Report, call customer service to make sure financials are available: 866-584-0283.

B. For FREE:

• Business and Company Resource Center: Gale Group: Company profiles, news, history, financials, rankings, law suits, industry overview. Both private and public companies. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• Mergent Online: Provides company profiles, place of incorporation, annual reports, financial statements, histories, news and Edgar (SEC) filings.Requires Cleveland Public Library Card or Greater Access Card to enter database. (A Cleveland Public Library Database) (Public Companies Only)

• Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory: Address, DUNS number, number of employees, information on officers, SIC and NAICS codes. Major Canadian businesses included. Public and Private Companies. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• CorporateInformation.com: Free trial subscription, after that, for fee only. Company profiles, financial and sales information for U.S. and foreign companies. Country and State Links provide lists of companies profiled for each country or state and research links to find more foreign company information. Contains quality rating, business description, stock prices, directory information, officers, financial information, and comparisons to similar companies. (Public Companies Only)

• Yahoo Finance: News and profile information for companies. Free annual report service. (Public Companies Only)

• Google Finance: Company summary, company facts (number of employees, address, revenue and more), financials, stock quotes, news, blog posts, names of executives, companies in the same industry. For private companies: Company summary, revenue, number of employees, names of executives, address, news, blog posts, companies in the same industry. (Public Companies Only)

• Hoover's Online: Public and private companies listed alphabetically and by industry. Directory information, top competitors, financials, news.

• Reuters.com: Company overview and key developments, stock quotes, risk evaluations, summary financial data and news. Longer reports available for a fee. (Public Companies Only)

• Morningstar.com: Company profiles, financials and news. (Public Companies Only)

• Business.com: Topical tree directory which links to company webpages. Directory information, company profile, news, stock quotes and financials available for some listings.

• AllBusiness.com Directory: A topical tree directory, similar to Business.com, above.

• ZoomInfo: A search tool that provides information on people and companies.

• If you know on which exchange the companies' stock is traded, you can find profile information on the webpage for that stock exchange. See: New York Stock Exchange; NASDQ; American Stock Exchange

For information on private companies try the company's website, news articles, secretary of state information, as well as the following:

• Business and Company Resource Center: Gale Group

• Hoover's Online: Public and private companies listed alphabetically and by industry. Directory information, top competitors, financials, news.

• Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory: Address, DUNS number, number of employees, information on officers, SIC and NAICS codes. Major Canadian businesses included. Public and Private Companies. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• ThomasNet: Search by company name, brand name or product type to locate a company's street address or other basic company information (assets, activities, year founded, etc.) for more than 170,000 manufacturing companies.

• Google Finance: Company summary, revenue, number of employees, names of executives, address, news, blog posts, companies in the same industry.

• Forbes Largest Private Companies: Directory information, business description, officers, revenue, number of employees for the largest U.S. private companies.

• Yellow.com: Provides addresses, phone numbers, and type of business.

• Virtual Chase Research Guide: finding information on private companies: Private Company Article

• Cuyahoga County Public Library Private Company Research Guide

• Covering Private Companies: a research guide by Chris Roush, Professor of Journalism.

• GuideStar: Basic information on non-profits available for free, including address, website, assets, income, chief executive and programs.

• Portico's State Non-Profit Databases: Links to state databases of non-profit entities.

• Search for Charities: Online Version of Publication 78

• Associations Unlimited (A CPL Database)

• The Foundation Center: A physical and virtual library providing information about foundations, applying for grants, finding funding, etc.

• Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations: Case Western Reserve University

• Covering Private Companies: This article by journalism professor Chris Roush contains links for information on nonprofit companies.

• ADR: American Depository Receipts (JP Morgan): Search by company name, region or industry. Stock quotes, financials, news, ownership information, earnings estimates and recommendation on whether to buy stock, company links and more.

• Mergent Online: Provides company profiles, place of incorporation, annual reports, financial statements, histories and news. Requires Cleveland Public Library Card or Greater Access Card to enter database. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• Dun and Bradstreet: The Million Dollar Database: Address, DUNS number, number of employees, information on officers, SIC and NAICS codes. Major Canadian businesses included. Public and Private Companies. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• Kompass.com: Directory information, list of products and services.

• Wright Investor Services: Trial subscription is free. Company profiles, financial and sales information for U.S. and foreign companies. Country and State Links provide lists of company profiles for each country or state and relevant research links to find more company information specific to that country or state.Contains quality rating, business description, stock prices, directory information, officers, financial information, and comparisons to similar companies. (Public Companies Only)

• Industry Canada: a department of the Federal government authors this website. Contains company profiles for Canadian companies and importers to Canada. Provides bankruptcy search(fee), industry information and economic indicators. Information on starting, financing and running a business in Canada.

• Canadian companies may be incorporated federally or in one of thirteen provinces or territories. For links to provincial corporate registries, see National Registered Agents: Canadian Web Sites

• Mercantil.com: Information on Mexican and South American companies.

• Mergent Online

• Annual Report Service.com

• The Public Register's Annual Report Service: will mail some annual reports for free.

• Financial Times.com: Free annual reports for foreign companies by mail or download.

• AnnualReports.com

• Investor Relations Information Network

A: SECRETARY OF STATE CORPORATE RECORDS

• Ohio Secretary of State Corporation Database

• National Association of Secretaries of State: Links to Secretary of State offices in all fifty states.

• Resident Agent Information: Links to the Secretary of State database for each state.

• Searchsystems.net: Select a state, and then scroll down to "corporations" database.

• Westlaw CORP-ALL databases can search Secretary of State records for forty-nine states, not including Delaware.

  
  
B: SEC FILINGS

• Securities & Exchange Commission: EDGAR: Starting in May, 1996, the SEC required all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements,periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Available information includes financial statements, information on material events and legal proceedings, property, executive compensation and changes in security ownership.

• Mergent Online: Requires Cleveland Public Library Card or Greater Access Card to enter database. (A Cleveland Public Library Database)

• Edgar Scan: From U.S. SEC. Contains a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.

• Search-SEC.com: provides a different interface for searching EDGAR.

• SECInfo.com: provides a different interface for searching EDGAR.

• SEC EdgarPlus (database identifier=EDGARP) on Lexis provides more sophisticated searching of SEC documents.


C: BANKS

• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council: financial data and performance reports for bank holding companies, institution characteristics and history, organization hierachies.

• FDIC Institution Directory: Financial statements and information about FDIC insured institutions.

• Yahoo! Search: Create a feed for ownership documents (forms 3, 4 and 5) of a company or executive (last name, first name, no comma) and have it sent to My Yahoo, for example. Or have a company's proxy or 10K as a live bookmark in Firefox.

• Ask.com: supports targeted search for blogs and RSS feeds, news, stocks, images, local info.

• ThomasNet: Search by company name, brand name or product type to locate a company's street address or other basic company information (assets, activities, year founded, etc.) for more than 170,000 manufacturing companies.

• Forbes Largest Private Companies: Directory information, business description, officers, revenue, number of employees for the largest U.S. private companies.

• Yellow.com: Provides addresses, phone numbers, and type of business.

• Zoominfo.com: A specialty search engine that provides addresses, phone numbers, basic company information (description, sales, key people, number of employees). Links to news articles on the web. Also, links to profiles of the key people in the company.

• Corporate Counsel: A listing of In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies