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Secondary
Data Sources:
Corporate
Intelligence (CI)
Annual
Report Gallery
Compiler of annual reports from U.S. and international
companies provides free access to reports and links corporate Web sites,
as well as financial profile information on each company. The site also
has excellent links, with the Financial Links section particularly thorough,
ranging from publications to news services and an extremely helpful list
of global stock exchange sites.
Brint.com:
The BizTech Network
Vast metadatabase of links to just about every type of information on
business and technology, both on issues and on specific companies. Best
of all, most of the links take you to free access sites.
The
CI Resource Index
For once, a site's own tag-line is pretty close to the truth; the Resource
Index does a very good job of providing "competitive intelligence
resources categorized." Those categories include associations, books,
companies, documentation (including tutorials and industry review articles),
publications and software. An excellent starting point to the Web's CI
resources
Aurora
WDC
Competitive Intelligence provider has dedicated a section of its site
to intelligence resources. These include essays and articles (by company
professionals), a bookstore, a research report library, a community discussion
board and, best of all, free expert advice. The company promises to deliver
its advice, to simple queries, within 24 hours at no cost
– a truly
remarkable gift for those needing quick answers.
Fuld And Company, Inc.
Fuld & Company provides visitors to its site with a number of highly
useful tools, starting with its Intelligence Index, a list of links to
more than 600 intelligence-related Internet sites. Also available are
an intelligence dictionary, reports on the value of CI and extensive extracts
from company head Leonard M. Fuld's book, The New Competitor Intelligence.
Corporate
Information
Excellent compiler of corporate profiles and other company information
sources. Site is hosted by Wright Investors' Service, whose reports registered
users can access. For nonusers, free link access is provided to company
profiles and research reports; also allows for searches by country, and
for searches on a particular industry in a particular country.
The
Corporate Library
Independent research company allows free searches of its reports on members
of the S&P500. Subscribers can access its larger database of reports
on publicly held companies analyzing such topics as CEO compensation and
corporate governance, as well as documents including books, news articles,
conference proceedings, legal briefs and opinions, and academic research
papers and studies. Longer entries are fully abstracted.
Factiva
(formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
Some free content exists on this site, though most is available through
a combination of subscription and per-item fees. But if you need detailed
industry reports or want to conduct company research, you might not mind
paying for the convenient, searchable access this site offers. Among the
free content are several well-written, step-by-step tutorials that spell
out the best methods for researching companies and industries using any
kind of sources.
Hoover's
Online
Industry-leading corporate information site offers comprehensive collection
of company profiles
– searchable
alphabetically, by industry, and by company type. Hoover's U.K. is also
available. Deeper information, including research reports, requires paid
subscription.
SEC
Filings From EDGAR
Official Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) site allows searching
of EDGAR financial filings for public companies; information retrievable
by form and/or by company name.
Internetnews.com
Basic but effective stocks and stock market news site with quotes and
market reports, SEC filings for U.S. public companies and financial information
on Canadian companies.
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