Company Types


The amount of information available about a company depends on whether the company is public or private, U.S. or foreign. For U.S. public companies (companies whose stock is available for sale to the public), a large amount of information may be found in books, annual reports, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and in newspaper and periodical articles. For subsidiaries of U.S. public companies, the amount of information may be less than for public parent companies. For private companies, much less information is available than for public companies. For private companies, there are no SEC reporting requirements; there may be no annual reports; there may be little or no information in books or in newspaper or journal articles. For foreign public companies, much less information is available usually than for U.S. public companies, unless the foreign companies' stock is traded in the U.S; even less information is usually available for foreign subsidiaries and for foreign private companies.

The list below is of companies that have been the subject of a Foster Business Library team consultation. Click here to see an alphabetical list of companies for which a team consultation webpage has been prepared.

Foster Business Library research guides are aimed at University of Washington students, faculty, and staff, highlighting resources available to them; users not currently affiliated with the university may be unable to access some of these resources.
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3 September 2003; updated 19 May 2008.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu