To make a list of companies in an industry, you'll typically need an industry code. These are often NAICS codes.
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Mergent Intellect
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide. Particularly useful for building lists of companies and for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships (use the Family Tree tab for a company). Advanced Search allows for creating a custom Excel spreadsheet of companies based on criteria like industry, location, size, etc. [Mergent Intellect replaces Hoovers Pro. Data for both Mergent Intellect and Hoovers Pro comes from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).]
PitchBook
Access: Current UCI Affiliates
Geography: US & Global
Especially useful for finding up-and-coming companies in emerging industries. Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds. Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.
Uniworld
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
A global directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Finds both U.S. firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the U.S. Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, revenue, etc. Uniworld also features a "career postings" search option, which is a yes/no indicator that the company has a link on its own website for its own career opportunities.
S&P Capital IQ
Access: Current UCI Affiliates
Geography: US & Global
A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial and capital structure information on millions of companies worldwide.
GuideStar
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
GuideStar specializes in nonprofit company intelligence. It covers 2.7 million nonprofits and features: current financial data; IRS forms; visualizations of financial trends for nonprofits; a directory to search for nonprofits by size, cause, and location; and a directory to search for people in leadership roles at nonprofits.
Orange County Business Journal: Book of Lists
Access: UCI
The "Book of Lists" supplement issue is simply a compilation of all lists published by OCBJ during the previous year.
Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
This database includes Fortune magazine. This custom URL finds the issues with "Largest U.S. Corporations" in the title (i.e., what Fortune officially calls its Fortune 500 list).
S&P Capital IQ
Access: Current UCI Affiliates
Geography: US & Global
A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial, executive, and activity information on millions of companies worldwide.
There are dozens of company lists, produced by many different entities.
This page only points to a select few of the most requested/relevant lists for the UCI community.
The INSEAD Libraries has an excellent compilation of many additional lists.
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UCI
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Access is generally available to all users.