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MGMT 645

Public Company Information

Business & Company Resource Center
     Good for: 

  • Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Profile
  • Determine industry codes for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (SIC/NAICS Codes)
  • Search for companies (possible acquisition targets) in the same SIC/NAICS Codes

MergentOnline
     Good for:

  • Company financial information
  • Subsidiaries
  • Long term debt and capital stock information
  • Equity Portraits for determining investment value

Market Insight
     Good for:
(Select COMPANY button at top of screen)

  • Peer group comparison
  • Company financial information
  • S & P Stock Reports

Business, Industry & Merger News Sources

Factiva
     Good for:

  • Full-text Wall Street Journal (back 20+ years)
  • Top 50 US newspapers coverage
  • Company Press Releases
  • Major Business Publications

LexisNexis Academic
     Good for:
(Select BUSINESS, then BUSINESS NEWS, then limit to INDUSTRY NEWS or MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)

  • Industry news
  • Merger and acquisitions information

Promt
     Good for:

  • Industry and trade publications

Industry & Market Sources

Market Insight
     Good for:
(Select INDUSTRY button at top of screen, then select from drop-down menu)

  • Standard & Poors Constituent Lists and Industry Indexes
  • S & P Industry Surveys

Tablebase
     Good for:

  • Market share & market rankings
  • Numerical/statistical data

Industry ratio books (in the M & E Library)
     Good for:

The Management & Economics Library is staffed with 3 faculty librarians and 3 reference assistants from 8:00am to 5:00pm Mon. - Fri. 
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last update: March 10, 2008

Prepared by: Hal Kirkwood kirkwood@purdue.edu