Resource Guides on Businesses & Industries (for PROFIT and NON-PROFIT): Resources on "For-Profits"

This is the website of the State of Oregon's official corporation records for both non-profits & for-profit businesses. It contains legal names, corporate agents, lead officer, and current status of each entry. The primary access point requires knowing keywords from a company's name. This resource will NOT find all Oregon firms in a certain line of business.

Provides a wide variety of information about the state of employment, unemployment and job growth in Oregon. Some reports are also available by county, by MSA, or by regions within the State of Oregon.

Offers clickable shortcuts for finding Industry profiles; Market shares; Company profiles; Industry rankings, and SWOT reports

Identifies and walks you through 4 of Hatfield Library's subscription databases to get your hands on Corporate snapshots. Also includes how to find Annual Reports to Shareholders.

If you have an idea of what type of industry within North American you want to focus on, this is an overview of 2 resources from the Mergent Intellect bundle of databases. One is numerical financial ratios ("Key Business Ratios"), the other is text based analyses ("First Research").

Offers clickable shortcuts for finding articles about NEW products, NEW services, or NEW businesses

Explains the who, what, when & how of both Corporate Annual Report to Shareholders and also 10-K Reports.

Online directory of over 100,000 companies in USA. Provides brief snapshots about Private and Public corporations. Search options include: Keywords in description, City, State, Zipcode, Area code, Names of officers, and SIC/NAICS codes. Unfortunately, the creator of this database aggregates two other databases with the same login, so every time you want to use the Ward's Directory, you have to specify which of the 3 underlying databases you really want to use.

These are things to consider & alternative suggestions to follow, IF your initial attempt to find an industry of your interest does not seem to work.

Explains what a NAICS code is, and offers a link to find NAICS code numbers for a product or industry that you want to focus on