Finding Information About Companies
Find Name, Address, Phone
If you need very basic information (company name, location, address) try the links below or any of the links used in the Finding People section:
- Anywho.com - business and residential phone and e-mail directory
- INFOSPACE - yellow and white page directories, reverse directory, maps and directions.
- Big Yellow - Extensive database of U.S. business listings
Public or Private? Company Search
Determine whether your company is publicly owned (traded on a stock exchange) or privately owned. There is much more information on publicly held companies. Public companies must report certain information to the Security and Exchange Commission and their shareholders.
- Quote.Com - To find the ticker symbol for a publicly held company
Company Overview
If you successfully identified the ticker symbol, you can collect some quick,useful summary information at any of the following sites.
- Hoover's Online - Provides information on over 13,000 public and private companies. Use the tool box on the left side of the screen. You can search by company name, ticker symbol or keyword.
- Companies Online - Free information from Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos. Search by company name or ticker symbol. Also contains a Featured Company of the Week and Browse by Industry section
- MarketGuide - Search by ticker symbol or company name. Information includes company snapshot, stock charts, number of employees, officers.
Company Homepages
Company web sites are mostly a marketing tool but may offer annual reports, information on company executives, news articles and, information about products and services.
If you haven't yet located the home page for your company, try guessing the address. Many businesses have a website address that looks like this:
- http://www.bellatlantic.com/
Type in the name of the company you are interested in.
- www.thenameofthecompany.com
If that doesn't work try:
- Companies Online - Free information from Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos. Search by company name or ticker symbol. Also contains a Featured Company of the Week and Browse by Industry section
Publicly Traded Companies
If the stock is publicly traded you can identify the stock symbol and get information at:
Public companies must report certain financial information to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and their shareholders. You can find annual reports (10K), quarterly reports (10Q), or other reports such as 13Q ownership filings at any of the following:
- Use the handy and fast Quick Forms Lookup if you know the type of filing (10-K, proxy) you want for a particular company.
- Company Sleuth - Scours the Internet for free, legal, inside information. Create a list of the companies and information is delivered free via email, once a day. You must register. Currently, Company Sleuth only tracks US-based, publicly traded companies.
- New Patents
- SEC Filings
- Earnings Estimates
- Discussion Group Postings
- Stock Quotes
- Analyst Ratings
- New Trademarks
- Insider Trades
- Job Postings
- Press Releases
- Business News
Private Company Information
- Corporate Information - Excellent site for finding both public and private company information. Organized by country, it contains a list of other sites that offer information about companies. Most of the links are free but there are some fee-based sites.
- CEO Express - Another meta site for the business researcher. Contains links to stock quotes, company research, government agencies, statistics, legislation, business news and magazines
- Price's List of Lists - A comprehensive list of links to articles listing the top ranked industries, organizations, schools, products, and people.
Executive Compensation
- Compensation of CWA Employers - CWA has compiled compensation figures for major CWA employers, including corporations, non-profits, and state governments.
- Proxy Statements - Compensation of executives of publicly traded companies must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. This information is in the SEC form DEF otherwise known as the proxy statement. These are available from the SEC EDGAR database.
- Executive Pay Watch - From the AFL-CIO, this site offers the salary and compensation figures for the chief executive officers of the Standard & Poor's 500 corporations.
- Forbes Magazine - has an online database of executive pay. Search by company or CEO name. When you get your results, click on the CEO's name for details of what's in the compensation package. Also compares current year to previous years.
Non-Profits
- GuideStar - is a free service with information on the programs nonprofit organizations, up-to-date news stories on philanthropy, and a forum for donors and volunteers.
NLRB Election History
CWA maintains a database of NLRB election history results between 1960-1997. The report contains employer name, location, date filed, date closed, election date, SIC Code, number of eligible voters, number of no votes, type of unit, petitioning union and employer address (if available). The database is updated as new information becomes available.
Request election history by sending an email to the CWA Research Library. Results can be delivered by mail or fax.
The Unicore Database
The UNICORE database tracks the union status of companies and can answer the following:
- What other facilities does the company own and are they organized?
- What other companies produce similar products and are they organized?
- What companies in this city/state/county are unorganized?
Information comes from a variety of sources including Dun & Bradstreet, the Federal Mediation and Concilitation Service (FMCS) and union data received directly from AFL-CIO affiliates.
A basic report on a company would include ultimate parent company and subsidiaries, location, number of employees, union status and whether there have been any ULPs or OSHA citations filed against the company.
This database is not housed at CWA. Turnaround time is 2- 4 business days. Send requests to the CWA Research Library. The document will be mailed or faxed to you.
