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Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor

Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part B: Company information International Summer School on Information Literacy , funded by CEI, 10-14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy. Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor

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Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor

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  1. Business InformationModule 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part B: Company informationInternational Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, 10-14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland isabina@inib.uj.edu.pl, sabina.cisek@gmail.com

  2. Company information • Information about different types of organizations: • publicly trade companies (listed on stock exchanges) • private companies • state-owned companies • not-for-profit organizations • government bodies • Information about: • Company background – name, address, website, contacts, identification number; managers; line of business – products, services; legal status and type of a company; size, number of employees; corporate affiliations; basic financial data (income, profit or loss, turnover) • More in-depth information – company finances, competitors, history, perspectives, policies (ecological, social, etc.)

  3. Company information sources • Directories, yellow pages, databases • National/official registries • Business/industry/product classifications • Lists/rankings • Annual reports and other formal documents • Stock exchanges’ websites and services • Trade magazines, journals, news services • Companies’ websites • …

  4. Company directories, yellow pages, databases • globalEdge – Company Directories: http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourceDesk/companyDirectories.asp • Central & Eastern European Directory On-Line: http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceebd/industdi.htm • Hoover’s: http://www.hoovers.com/free/ • Europages, the European Business Directory: http://www.europages.com/ , http://www.europages.net/ • Kompass: http://www.kompass.com/ • Teleadreson [Poland]: http://www.teleadreson.pl/?lang=en • ThomasNet [USA]: http://www.thomasnet.com/ • Short assignment: find on the Web the yellow pages / business telephone book for your country and describe its information content

  5. Company identification numbers – come from: • official / governmental company registers (in most countries companies and other organizations have to be registered with a government agency or a court or a statistical office – and get a national registration number); examples – • Company registration around the world [links to registers] http://www.commercial-register.sg.ch/home/worldwide.html • RBA – Official Company Registers http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/registers.htm#general • UK Companies House – Worldwide Registries http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/links/introduction.shtml#reg • commercial information providers; the most important is DUNS Number by Dun & Bradstreet

  6. Business/industry/product classifications • List of NACE (Nomenclature Generale des Activities Economiques) codes. NACE is a EU industry standard classification system consisting of a 6 digit code: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/nace_all.html • LogisticsWorld – NAICS / SIC Codes Lookup and Conversion Table: http://www.loglink.com/sic.asp • The United Nations – List of international family of economic and social classifications: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/family1.asp

  7. Global, international, local lists/rankings of companies • Gary Price's List of Lists http://www.specialissues.com/lol/ • Forbes http://www.forbes.com/lists/ ; http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/29/forbes-global-2000-biz-07forbes2000-cz_sd_0329global_land.html • Fortune http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/ ; http://money.cnn.com/lists/index.html • Assignment: What type of information can you get from rankings? Check Forbes and/or Fortune lists and their information content. Work in pairs.

  8. Annual reports and other formal documents (compulsory prepared by „listed” companies, but also – by other organizations) • AnnualReports.com http://annualreports.com/ • CAROL – Company Annual Reports On-Line: http://www.carol.co.uk/ [Europe, USA] • IRIN – Annual Report Resource Center http://www.irin.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?index=main • NYSE Listed Company Directory http://www.nyse.com/listed/listed.html • Example of an annual report – European Patent Organisation Annual report 2006 http://www.epo.org/about-us/office/annual-reports/2006.html

  9. Annual reports and other formal documents (compulsory prepared by „listed” companies, but also – by other organizations) • Assignment – work in small groups • Look at two or three different annual reports. What data and knowledge do they offer? How in-depth and comprehensive is the information? Describe information content and potential uses of annual reports.

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