🇨🇦company profiles

Dan Scott <dscott@laurentian.ca>

2018-01-17

Goal

Learn about the corporate community and specific businesses in a given area

Goal (translated)

Learn about the corporate community and specific businesses in a given area

Find companies that match our marketing profile (geography, size, type of business)

Three main tools at Laurentian

  • Canadian Company Capabilities
  • Business Source Complete
  • Lexis-Nexis company profiles

Available via

Canadian Company Capabilities

🇨🇦Company Profiles - Demo!

Screenshot of Canadian Company Profiles basic search interface

Canadian Companies - Maps!

Screenshot of maps interface

Warning

The old Industry Canada site is being absorbed into canada.ca; at some point these links may no longer work.

Business Source Complete

  • Includes profiles on ~35,000 Canadian companies
  • Search and filter by location, revenue, employees, NAICS code
  • Results include contact info, revenue, executives & employee count, subsidiary info

LexisNexis Academic

  • Includes profiles on >100,000 Canadian companies
  • Search and filter by location, ticker symbol, DUNS number
  • Some detailed company profiles, aggregated from multiple sources (LN Corporate Affliations, Morningstar, Dun & Bradstreet, S&P, Worldscope)
  • Best used to look up a specific company

LexisNexis Companies - Demo!

Screenshot of LexisNexis landing page

LexisNexis Academic -> Get Company Info -> Company Dossier

Comparing company profile databases
Database🇨🇦CDBSCLN
Coverage> 60,000~35,000> 100,000
Data sourcesSelf-reportedN/AAggregated
Geo searchCity & mapCityCity
NAICS?YesYesNo

Summary

You're probably going to have to use all three.

Contact

SPAD librarian: Dan Scott <dscott@laurentian.ca>