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Syracuse Abroad - Syracuse Florence Resources: EEE

A collection of resources for Syracuse University Abroad's Florence Program.

EEE: Finding Background Company/Industry Information

For basic background information, overviews, and links to other related resources, check out these reference sources:

  • Business Insights: Essentials
    Database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 300,000 companies as well as company profiles, industry rating, product brands, company performance ratings, investment reports and ratings, industry statistics, financial overviews, financial ratios, etc.
     
  • Business Owner's Toolkit: Finance
    Provides the information and resources you need to start, run, and grow your business.
     
  • Mergent Online
    Financial information of public company -- US Company Data Direct, which contains more than 10,000 U.S. companies (including EDGAR (SEC) filings) and International Company Data Direct, which contains more than 17,000 non-U.S. companies.
     
  • Hoover's Company Profiles
    Contains proprietary information about public and non-public companies and key executives.
     
  • IBISWorld
    Business reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, global industry research, and economic and demographic data.
     
  • MarketResearch.com Academic
    Market research reports covering the following industries and categories: business services, consumer goods, food and beverage, demographics, heavy industry, life sciences and technology and media. Sources for reports include Kalorama Information, Packaged Facts, Simba Information and Specialists in Business Information (SBI).
     
  • Plunkett Research Online
    Takes you directly to industry-specific research portals for the most important business sectors, from energy to e-commerce and retailing to financial services.
     
  • U.S. Small Business Administration
    Improve your odds of business success by understanding your financing needs as well as the options that are available to help you start, manage, and grow your business.

EEE: Finding Articles

For articles from journals, newspapers, and other periodicals, check out these article and abstract databases:

  • ABI/INFORM Collection
    Index and abstracts to articles from leading business and management publications, including English-language titles from outside the U.S.
     
  • Business Source Elite
    Full-text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications.
     
  • Factiva
    Provides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.

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