UofL Libraries: Louisville Business Research: Research a Company

Company Profiles & Reports

These databases and print resources provide overviews of American companies. It is much easier to find information on companies that are publicly traded on a U.S. stock exchange than those that are privately owned.

Business Source Premier
Select "Company Profiles" from black bar at top of page. Enter company name in box or browse alphabetically.
Hoover's Company Profiles
Profiles of more than 40,000 companies including company overview, company history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, related industry information, and historical financials. Type company name in search box at top or click <Look up Companies/organizations next to Company/organization box under Search options.
Nexis Uni
Click on the drop down menu list next to the Nexis Uni logo in the top left corner. Select "Company Dossier" (if necessary, accept pop-up). Enter company name in top search box.
Mergent Archives
Hoover's Handbooks of Emerging Companies, Private Companies, World Business, and American Business.
Click on "Search Mergent Archives" on the right hand side of the page. Select the "Hoover's" tab at the top of the next page and then select the icon of the handbook you wish to view.

International Directory of Company Histories by Gale Editors
Call Number: HD 2721.I57
ISBN: 9781558629448
Publication Date: 2015-08-07
1988-2019
Comprehensive background and history of more than 11,000 companies. Includes acquisitions and mergers.

2017-2019 available online in Gale Virtual Reference Library. 1988-2015 print volumes are in Ekstrom Library's Robotic Retrieval System (RRS). Cumulative Index in 2019 volume can be used to find articles in the earlier volumes, which are in the RRS.

Leading American Businesses
Brief profiles of large American companies and business leaders. From Reference for Business.
Company Histories
Brief histories of domestic and international companies arranged alphabetically. From Reference for Business.
Company Histories Part 2
Short histories of domestic and international companies grouped by industry. From Reference for Business.

Local Business Newspapers

Local and regional business newspapers are sometimes the only source of information about small, regional, and/or start-up companies.

Regional Business News