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Industry and Company Research

Industry/Market Research

USA Trade Online This site is freely accessible for all users. Site for U.S. imports and exports data on more than 18,000 commodities worldwide. Data is searchable for specific products and custom reports can be created. . Users must create their own user name and password to use this resource.


Company Research


EDGAR: Search - The SEC’s EDGAR database provides free public access to corporate information. Free access to more than 21 million filings.

Nexis Uni - Provides full-text documents from news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications including national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, etc.

Business Source

Business Source Complete - Company/Industry Information

Business Source Complete is a comprehensive database of business information.  Find company and industry news, academic journals, trade publications, country reports, and much more.

After searching use the "Source Type" filter on the left to narrow your search.  SWOT AnalysisIndustry Profiles, Market Research Reports, and Trade Publications all might be useful for this project.

Screenshot of Business Source Complete, highlighting Date and Source Type filters