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Home > Special Collections > Career and Employment Information Center > Company Research

Company Research

 

Locating Corporate Home Pages

  • Yahoo!:
    Type company name in search box.


  • Dogpile Search Engine:
    Partial searches of multiple search engines: Type company name in search box.


  • Google!:
    One of the best all-around search engines.

Developing a Target List of Potential Employers
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Sites which can be searched by industry or business type to generate a list

  • Crain's Lists
    Crain's Detroit Business. Scroll down to access the online lists free. A priority resource for identifying potential employers by industry. Crain's also has publications for New York, Chicago, and Cleveland.


  • Guide2Detroit.com
    Metro Detroit companies grouped by Industries with links to company employment information.


  • Forbes.com - Companies / Lists
    Access various Forbes lists via the frames menu on the left. Lists can be sorted by industry.


  • Fortune Magazine
    Access various Fortune lists via the frames menu on the left. You can choose to view the resulting lists by company or by industry.


  • SuperPages.com
    Look up businesses by name or yellow-pages heading. Ability to search entire state at one time in addition to searching by city is useful when looking for corporate branch locations.


Finding More Details (Mostly about Larger Companies)
Including annual and quarterly reports where indicated

  • Locating Corporate Home Pages
    Search the web site of the company you are interested in. Use the Locating Corporate Home Pages link on this page to find sites.


  • EDGAR
    Free access and full-text search (keywords, phrases and names) of the EDGAR database. Access the full range of highly detailed reports which all publicly traded U.S. companies are required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The 10K is the corporate annual report. The 10Q is the quarterly report. The 8K covers significant events as they occur and updates the 10Q.


  • Detroit Public Library
    From the home page of the Detroit Public Library, customers can click on the Research Databases link to locate and access newspaper and magazine articles, frequently in full text, from a number of online databases including OCLC's FirstSearch, Infotrac Reference Center Gold, Predicasts PROMT (listed under the Business Heading), the Detroit News, and the Detroit Free Press.


  • Crain's Detroit.com
    Crain's Detroit Business. Online edition with current business news free. News archives and various directories available to online subscribers. Non-subscribers can use OCLC FirstSearch (BusinessIndustry), Predicasts PROMT, or InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold to access past news articles in full text. These services aare available from the Home Page of the Detroit Public Library by customers using computers located in the Detroit Public Library. (Click on the Catalog link.)

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