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Company Rankings
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Business Rankings Annual
HG 4050 .B88 (Reference Desk Collection)
A bibliographic guide to more than 8,000 ranked lists of companies and other subjects that appear in over 1,000 periodicals, newspapers, financial services, statistical annuals, and other sources. It is arranged by specific subject, and the data about each usually includes the criteria for the ranking, the names of the top 5 or 10 in the ranking, the source (including date and page). At the end is an index by subject and ranked company, and a separate bibliography of the sources (such as Fortune).
Dun's Business Rankings
HG 4057 .A237 (Ref. Desk Collection)
Comparative rankings of some 8,000 U.S. companies, both public and private, with each ranking given both by sales size and by employee size. Additinal sections rank companies by two- and sometimes three-digit SIC codes; companies by two- and sometimes three-digit SIC codes; companies by: sales size, employee size, state, public companies, private companies.
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Hoover's Handbook of American Business
HG 4057 .A28617 (Reference Desk Collection)
Company profiles contain a concise statement of the nature of the business, its history and the products and services it delivers; also a list of major projects, sales, names of officers, number of employees, ranking in the Fortune, Business Week, and Forbes annual ranked lists, names of competitors, and a Hoover's rating.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
HG 4057 .A56 (Reference Desk Collection)
8 volumes. Vols. 1-3 contain data on more than 130,000 private and public companies, including for each, when available: year founded, description of products/services offered, approximate sales, number of employees, SIC codes, officers, fax number, stock exchange, ticker symbol, whether private or public, or a subsidiary. Vol. 4 lists the companies by location (zip code) and also contains ranked lists of the 1,000 largest privately held companies, the 1000 largest public companies. Vol. 5 provides a ranked list by sales within four-digit SIC. Vols. 6 and 7 rank within four-digit SIC code for states and vol. 8 ranks by sales within eight NAICS.
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