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Description

Company InSite uniquely combines company directory information for approximately 100,000 U.S and 45,000 non-U.S. companies with links to articles about the companies and other related information. Company InSite specializes in hard-to-find privately-held companies. New articles discussing the company are added regularly based on coverage of the company in more than 3,000 sources indexed by Gale Group. The U.S. directory information is verified by telephone, questionnaire, annual report, or 10K reports. International company information is derived from directories published by Graham & Whiteside, Ltd. of the United Kingdom.

Specifications

Total number of companies:
Approximately 145,000
Number of U.S. companies: Approximately 100,000

Number of Non-U.S. companies:
Approximately 45,000
Updated:
New company directory information is added on a monthly basis. Articles about companies are updated on a daily basis.

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Company contact information
A description of a company's business
Variant names for a company
Names of key officers
Company size in revenues and number of employees
Primary and/or secondary SIC code for a company

Companies that meet user-defined criteria (e.g. California companies with revenues over $500 million with a primary SIC code of 3571)
Company business type (e.g. public, private, subsidiary etc.)
Parent company information
Year company was founded
Company ticker symbol

Company directory records typically provide the following information:

Address with URL linked to company website
Business Description
Annual Revenues
Number of Employees
Primary and Secondary SIC Codes
Officer Names & Titles
Fiscal Year

Year Founded
Sales per Employee
SMSA Name & Code
Ticker Symbol
Stock Exchange

Source Coverage

Coverage includes directory information on approximately 140,000 international companies, 95% of which are privately-held. Directory records for the more than 30,000 non-U.S. companies contained are derived from Graham & Whiteside's series of company directories published in the United Kingdom.

Sample Applications

Research the gross sales figures of the top ten publishing companies in the United States.
Obtain information on all private companies engaged in computer maintenance and repair that were founded after 1990.
Find out which mail order clothing company has generated more sales than any of its competitors.
Obtain the addresses, phone numbers, and names of officers for the subsidiaries of Procter & Gamble
Compile a list of the key players in the pharmaceutical preparation (SIC code 2834) business.
Identify the companies in a specific geographic area with revenues over $100 million.

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Easy Search and Advanced Search features are available in Company InSite. Easy Search enables you to search by company name or ticker symbol. Advanced Search allows you to search fields organized by several categories including: size, location, industry, and general company information.

Also featured in Company InSite are Margin Links which help you find additional information - simply by clicking on them! With Margin Links, you can:

Link from a company directory record to articles about the company
Link from a company directory record to an Investext analyst report about the company
Link from a parent company directory record to a subsidiary directory record
Link from a directory record to an SIC record describing the industry for that company
Link from a directory record to an Investext analyst report about the company's industry
Link from an SIC record to a list of companies in the industry ranked by sales, largest to smallest
Link from an SIC record to articles about the industry
Link from an SIC record to an Investext analyst report about the industry

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