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Company Rankings

• America's Largest Private Companies: Forbes Magazine's annual list. Free access to lists back to 1996.
  
  
• Forbes 2000 The World's Leading Companies: Introduced in March of 2004 this new list ranks the world's biggest companies.
  
  
• Fortune 500: The classic annual list ranking companies. The full list online is a fee service online but can be found in the print issue usually every April. For 2004 the list is contained in the April 5th issue located on reserve at the Circulation desk under call number HG4057.A282. This site does contain some free information of the history of the list.
  
  
• 100 Best Companies to Work For: Annual list compiled by Fortune Magazine. Some free content at this site including a geographic search tool. The January 12, 2004 issue of Fortune contains this list and can be found in the library on reserve in Circulation under call number HG4057.A282.
  
  

General Sites

• Google Finance
  
  
• Yahoo Finance
  
  
• @Rochester: Access to local Rochester companies.
  
  
• Harris InfoSource
  
  
• BigBook: Information on 11 millions U.S. businesses including a street-level map for each business. Access to local Rochester companies.
  
  
• Annual Report Online
  
  
• BizWeb: Access to nearly 24,000 companies by industry.
  
  
• Business World: Directory emphasizes global trade and facilitating business-to-business activity. Access to local Rochester companies.
  
  
• Dun & Bradstreet: Access to over 60,000 companies.
  
  
• Edgar Database of Corporate Information: Government database of corporate financial information.
  
  
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers: Library subscription to this directory of manufacturers.
  
  
• Valueline Company
  
  
• Wall Street Research Net: Meta site for financial information on US and Canadian companies.
  
  
• One Jump
  
  
• Researching a Company
  
  
• Annual Report Gallery: Annual reports in HTML and PDF.
  
  
• Annual Reports On-line:The Public Register
  
  
• CAROL: Company Annual Reports On Line - International
  
  
• Historical Corporate Annual Reports Collection: Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania
  
  
• Yahoo Finance: Source for all things finance including historical daily stock prices, market activity, financial news, bond info, and more.

Research Tools

• North American Industry Classification System: On-line access to the lastest version of the federal government's coding system used for classification of companies. This System was put into place July 1, 1998.
  
  
• Standard Industrial Classification Codes: On-line access to the federal government's coding system used for classification of companies prior to July 1, 1998.
  

For more information contact:
Jennifer Freer
Business Reference Librarian
Business News and Resources
jlfwml@rit.edu
IM me at bizlibrarian