Research Guides: Company and Industry Information: Historical Company Research

Historical Company Information

Columbia Historical Corporate Reports
A selection of corporate reports from the Columbia Business Library's extensive collection of historical corporate annual reports.The selection targeted corporations that operated in and around New York City.
International Directory of Company Histories
Provides histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.

Mergent Archives This link opens in a new window
Mergent Archives provides access to an indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. Includes Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual Reports, and Industry Report Collection.
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports contains companies' annual reports available through searchable pdf images. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched.

Bobst Microfiche collection on LL2
- Microfiche version of the Annual Reports and 10K's dating from the mid-1970s through 1998 for American Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange companies.
Disclosure CD-ROMS
- Bobst (Ask in Reference Office on 5th floor) CD-ROM 1989-1995, with some gaps
- Financial information derived from SEC filings on over 12,000 public companies. Spectrum ownership data, including institutional, 5% or insider ownership for about 5,000 companies is also included. For more recent SEC filings, see Global Access.

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
This includes companies that maintain their historical records themselves, as well as companies that contract with historical consulting firms to maintain their archives collections for them, and libraries that contain business records.
Hagley Museum and Library
The collections include individuals' papers and companies' records ranging from eighteenth-century merchants to modern telecommunications and illustrate the impact of the business system on society.