Business: Overviews:
-- Profiles, Hierarchies, and SWOT Analyses

Company Overviews:
Profiles, Hierarchies, and SWOT Analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

S&P Capital IQ *(Current UCI students, faculty, & staff)
Geography: Global   
A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial and capital structure information on millions of companies worldwide, including data and graphs for historic stock prices, searchable SEC filings, mergers & acquisitions activities, and venture capital/private equity data.  Also features biographic and professional connection information for millions of business practitioners.  

Mergent Intellect 
Geography: Global   
Public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide.  It's particularly useful for building lists of companies and for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships (use the Family Tree tab for a company).  Mergent Intellect replaces Hoovers Pro.  Data for both Mergent & Hoovers comes from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). 

MarketLine Advantage
Geography: Global   
Select public and select large private company profiles, spanning most major industries worldwide.  Profiles often include a detailed SWOT Analysis.

Passport Global Market Information Database *(Current UCI students, faculty, & staff)
Geography: Global   
Select public and large private company profiles worldwide, particularly for consumer goods and services. Many profiles include a brief SWOT Analysis.

Nexis Uni Company Dossier
Geography: Global   
Formerly LexisNexis Academic.  This Company Dossier tool Public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide.  Particularly helpful for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships and some executive email addresses (as available). 

• Nexis Uni [homepage] >> Menu [top left corner]  >> Company Dossier
• Tip:  search on either the ticker symbol (for public companies), or the company's formal name. 

Uniworld
​Geography: Global   
A global directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary.  Finds both US firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the US.  Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, and revenue.

Private Companies:  Other Resources
 

Preqin: Private Equity Online
Geography: Global
This resource encompasses all of Preqin's private equity and venture capital databases.  It provides data on all aspects of the asset class, including fund terms and conditions, fundraising, fund managers, institutional investors, fund performance, deals and exits, service providers and more.  The earliest data tends to be back to the 1980's.

• Many private startup companies receiving funding are featured in this database.  

News is often one of the only sources of info on private companies. 
These are news databases:

Business Source Complete
Geography: Global
Covers virtually all business subjects.  Thousands of news articles from popular and trade sources. 

• Search first only by company name, and add more words as needed. 
• For ambiguous names, e.g. Apple, use: Select a Field (dropdown)  >  CO Company Entity.

Factiva
Geography: Global​
Worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business news wires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and business-rich websites. 

Access World News
Geography: Global
Full-text news from 600+ U.S. and 700+ international sources, offering viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. 

• Learn this search!

Press Releases
The Press Release page for a private company, discoverable through Google, is also a critically important resource.