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Survey the company's past, present, and future. A successful research will include:
- History
- Mission Statement
- Corporate Officers
- Locations, Divisions, Subsidiaries
- Products and Services
- Number of employees
- Future Growth and Expansion
- Competitors
- Reputation in the Industry
- Press Releases (generated by the company and may be biased)
- Information From Newspapers, Journals, etc.
- Industry Outlook
Company Website (Walgreens Website)
Many companies provide their corporate philosophy and mission statements, historical overview, news releases, description of goods and services, corporate officers, locations of regional, national and international divisions, and subsidiaries on their web site.
ABI / Inform Global
Access to over 2000 business and management periodicals and journals and
newspapers. Subjects include advertising, accounting, economics, human
resources, finance, marketing, and technology and much more. Access to
information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles through
links to Hoover's Online. Now includes full-text of the Wall Street
Journal from 1984.
Amadeus
Detailed financial, descriptive and ownership information, on 4.6 million European companies plus summaries of an additional 900,000 companies.
Business Source Premier
Indexes more than 3300 scholarly business journals with much of the coverage full text and full
image. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Provides access to Company Profiles, 10-12 page reports on public companies from
Datamonitor.
Datamonitor Business Information Center
Find Company, Industry and Country Profiles compiled from published desk research and
secondary data sources. Contains over 10,000 company profiles, 3,000 industry
profiles and 100 Country Profiles.
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Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
Directory of 261,000 U.S. and Canadian leading public and private businesses. Search by
various criteria, including SIC or NAICS codes, location, or executive names.
Factiva
Provides access to general news and business information, international
newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Use Company Quick Search
feature to find competitors, comparisons, SEC documents and the latest news by
company name or ticker.
Hoover's Online
A company "capsule" that includes the company history, corporate overview, top competitors, subsidiaries and divisions, corporate officers, financial overview and web address.
IUCAT
Use IUCAT to find books owned by the IU Libraries including biographical, historical, legal and business topics and books on careers and interviewing techniques. Also included video
recordings and audio tapes related to a specific company.
Mergent Online
Covers 15,000 public U.S. companies and their SEC filings and over 20,000 foreign companies.
Includes current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies.
Annual reports on all companies in our International Company Data database are
also available. Company information includes history, mergers, officers, debt,
income statement, balance sheet, and more.
RDS Business Reference Suite
A collection of three databases provides access to professional, academic, and
trade journals with a focus on statistics, market trends, and strategic business
data.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Search S & P’s Register, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, The
Outlook and more to find company, executive, stocks, bonds, and industry
information.
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