Guides: Business: Company Information

Types of Companies

Determine whether a company is public, private or international.

Public
More information is available on companies trading on the stock market - SEC filings, annual reports, analysts' reports, news stories, books and case studies.

Private
Limited information is found on private companies - brief information in directories, news stories, and sometimes books.

International
Information on international companies varies. If a company trades on the U.S. exchanges it must file annual reports (20-F) with the SEC. Try directories, databases, newspapers and magazines.

Packaged Company Reports

Find prepackaged company reports.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
ProQuest One Business is a complete business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Licence Summary:

Company Financials

Find financial information on a company.

Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Hoover's Company Profiles This link opens in a new window

Company News

Find information on a company in the news.

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window

Create a List of Companies

Create a list of companies by industry within a geographic area.

Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window

Find a Specific Type of Company

Find a specific type of company in these directories.

Canadian Trade Index
Frasers: Canada's Online Industrial Directory
Canadian industrial wholesalers, manufacturers, distributors and their products and services.
MacRae's Blue Book
Information on over 500,000 North American industrial companies with more than 2 million product listings indexed under more than 50,000 product headings.
ThomasNet