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Company Research Guide
Tips for finding public and private company information, histories, financials, stock reports, and news.
Identify Regional Partners, Industry Peers, & Competitors
You can use some company databases to find companies who operate in a particular region or who are headquartered in the region or country. Many databases allow you to narrow the company lists by your own criteria, such as industry, revenues, employee size, company type, and more.
You can use these resource to find competitors or industry partners within the international market.
D&B Hoover's
- Use the "Build A Company List" feature with your own criteria to search by country, region, etc.
- As an example, you can search for countries in Vietnam, and then use the "Business Signals" to limit further to companies that do business in the United States.
- D&B Hoover's covers large and small companies, but understand that no company database can possibly know about all the companies that exist.
- D&B Hoovers
Use for company profiles, news, analyst reports, SWOT analyses, executive information, company financials, and more. Note: If you have trouble logging in, try opening the link in an Incognito or Private browser window.
Mergent Intellect
- Use Mergent to find complimentary companies (and some that are missing) to D&B Hoover's.
- Use the Advanced Search feature, then use the limiters to find international companies by user-defined criteria (industry, size, revenues, etc.)
- Mergent Intellect
Use to find companies and competitors by user-defined search criteria, such as size, location, industry, sales, and more. Useful for private company information which includes estimated sales.
Uniworld
- Uniworld
An online directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries, and Foreign Firms Operating in the United States. The database can be searched by SIC code, zip code, number of employees, location, keyword, and more, to generate a list of companies and their subsidiaries.
Uniworld is an excellent source of information on multinational firms operating around the world. U.S. companies listed have a substantial investment in overseas operations–wholly or partially owned subsidiary affiliate or branch. Non U.S. companies (foreign firms) listed have substantial investment within the United States.
