Research Guides: Business: Company + Industry Info

Company and Industry Information

You can search all company information at once by selecting Business Market Research Collection. Or, try Hoover's or Snapshots individually.

Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Allows users to conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analytica, and Snapshots. Can also be searched via ProQuest Central.
Hoover's Company Records This link opens in a new window
Hoover's is a publication within Business Market Research database. It includes financial and organizational information for over 40,000 public and non-public companies.
Snapshots This link opens in a new window
Now part of the Business Market Research Collection, Snanshots includes over 8,890 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America.

Tips for Searching for Company and Industry Information

Here are some tips for searching Hoover's or Snapshots for information about companies or industries:

Choose Advanced Search
Put the company name in the field labelled Company/organization
You can also look up the NAICS code for the industry in which you are interested on the Advanced Search page.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes classify organizations by industry. You can use them to find documents related to a particular industry.

Public or Private?

If you aren't sure if a company is public or private, try a search in the US Security and Exchange Commission's tool called Edgar. Enter the company name. If you find reports in Edgar, the company is public.

EDGAR

How can you tell if a company is public or private? You may have to dig around. On a company website, see if there is a section called investor relations. If so, see if there is information about the company stock. If the company trades its stock, it is public.