Business

Company Dossier on LexisNexis Academic

An extremely important tool in Business Research is LexisNexis Company Dossier, which you will find in the Business Tab of LexisNexis Academic. Dossier lets you search a company by name, ticker symbol, or D-U-N-S® number. You can also restrict your search by company type, city, state/province or country. From this form, find a wealth of information including headquarters locations, SEC filings, and executive hierarchies. LexisNexis Company Dossier delivers easy-to-read profiles of nearly 35 million companies worldwide and information on 1,000 industries to your desktop in just seconds. It helps you identify potential new clients, understand a company’s brands and trademarks, access detailed financial and recent litigation information, and more.

LexisNexis Dossier allows you to browse in-depth company profiles and industry reports with the best intelligence available through LexisNexis® services. Content includes:

Company information
Business directories, Dun & Bradstreet® information, Hoover’s® company information, ICC financial information, the INVESTEXT® database, the MERGERSTAT® database, SEC filings, Standard & Poor’s® corporate information, and more. When you research a particular company, you will also find their particular NAICS and SIC codes on the company profile.

Intellectual property information
U.S. patents, trademarks, and copyrights

News
The past two years of news from thousands of global publications and same-day news from more than 85 publications

Legal information
Cases (most recent 12 months), CourtLink® Strategic Profiles, Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory information, Mealey’s™ newsletters

Look at the links to the right of the main form for forms on SEC Filings, Company Profiles, Country Profiles, and Accounting. You can also create a comparative list of up to five companies.

LexisNexis Company Dossier External Links

Company Dossier Content
Company Dossier Overview
Company Dossier At-A-Glance

Other Company Information on LexisNexis Academic

SEC Filings

Use the SEC Filings form located under the Business tab in LexisNexis Academic to search the following Securities and Exchange Commission forms filed by corporations

• SEC Form 8-K (Significant Events)
• SEC Form 10-K (Annual Reports)
• SEC Form 10-Q (Quarterly Reports)
• SEC Form 20-F (Registration statement)
• SEC Annual Reports to Shareholders
• SEC Online Database
• SEC Proxy Statements
• SEC Exhibits
• Form 4 (Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securities)
• Form 144 (Notice of proposed sale of securities)
• SEC Prospectuses
• SEC Registration Statements

Company Profiles

Use the Company Profiles form to search over a dozen company directories, including:

• Access Disclosure
• America's Corporate Finance Directory
• Experian Business Reports
• Hoover's Company Records
• Investext Current Reports
• CoreData US Institutional Database
• Nelson's Public Company Profiles
• Standard & Poor's Corporate Register

Note on Finding DUNS, CUSIP, and Tickers

Most of the directories listed above include the stockmarket ticker symbol for each company listed. The Standard & Poor's Corporate Register is your best source for all three company identifiers.

In the News

To find news about a company or industry, use the Power Search form with a broad news source selected (such as All News, English) and use the "Add Index Terms" feature to access the SmartIndexing terms for industries and specific companies. Using index terms is far more accurate than doing a free text search on the company name. In the People index, you will find terms for many high-profile corporate executives, allowing you to search for stories on them as well.

Additional Sources

Browsing under the Sources tab you will find folders for "Companies & Organizations" and "Industries & Markets" which will lead you to hundreds of additional sources, including:

• Mergerstat Review (Mergers and acquisitions activity)
• Hoover's Industry Snapshots
• Bankruptcy DataSource
• Company directories from around the world
• Hundreds of industry and trade periodicals

Finding Supporting Statistics in LexisNexis Statistical

Statistics are a great way to support an argument or to provide an additional layer of analysis for a research paper, and LexisNexis Statistical is a great place to start to find exactly the tables you need for your paper. LexisNexis™ Statistical provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

Sample Table

Getting Started: A good place to start is the "Search Tables" form within LexisNexis Statistical. And a good place to find ideas for papers (and to find more targeted search results) is to begin with the Subject List link to the right of the search form. You can view all the search terms alphabetically or you can search for a specific concept, like "Business ethics". Another good place to start is to search the Subject List for "Business" or "Economic". Scroll through the results, including the related terms, and this is a good way to identify key business and economic concepts that can be pasted to your search for more targeted search results.

• You can also research a specific city, State, region, or country, to compare business and economic conditions. You can search on the specific geographic name, or you can narrow your search using the category breakdowns in the search form. For instance, you can search "Business failures and closings" and "cleveland" to locate a table that includes information on business failures in Cleveland, or you can search "Business failures and closings" and narrow your search by the category "By City" which will show comparative information on business failures in various cities.

See also the article Statistical Searching: How Do I...? for additional tips on finding specific types of information within LexisNexis Statistical.

Primary Sources on the History of Business, Employment, and Economics

Archival and manuscript collections can add a historical perspective to business research. The links below lead to guides to microfilm editions of archival and manuscript materials.

• American Federation of Labor Records, Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, Part 1: 1893-1924 (with Vote Books, 1892-1924)
  
• American Federation of Labor Records, Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, Part 2: 1925-1955 (with Vote Books, 1925-1954)
  
• CIO and Industrial Unionism in America, Minutes of the Executive Board of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-1955
  
• Franklin Institute and the Making of Industrial America
  
• Germany's Business Leaders, 1400-1917
  
• Great Standard Oil Monopoly Case: United States of America v. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
  
• In the Matter of Exxon Corporation et al. Records of the FTC's Case, 1978-1981 Supplement
  
• Recessions, Depressions, and Economic Panics in American History: Collection of Sources
  
• Regulation of Industry, U S Legislation Public Utilities, 1886-1990
  

The following links are for the individual guides to the collection entitled
U.S. National Economy: Unpublished Documentary Collections

• Part 1. Wilson Administration-Hoover Administration (1916-1933)
  
• Part 2: Roosevelt Administration-Truman Administration (1933-1953)
  
• Part 3: Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961)
  
• Part 4: Kennedy Administration-Johnson Administration (1961-1969)
  
• Part 5: Nixon Administration-Ford Administration (1969-1977)
  
• Part 6: Carter Administration (1977-1981)
  
• Part 7: Reagan Administration (1981-1989)
  
• Part 8: Bush Administration (1989-1992)
  
• Part 9: Clinton Administration (1993-2001)