LIB340 Finding Company Information

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LIB340 Finding Company Information

• Feb 2009
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/classes/2009/spring/p
  owerpoint/

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Outline

• Company Information
• Annual Reports
• Company Financials
• Competitors
• Company News
• Stock Quotes
• China Company Information

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Company Information

• Hoovers Pro (Academic Version)
• Information on over 45,000 public and private
  companies including company history, top
  officers, financials, competitors, location,
  company news, etc.
• Business Source Premier Company Profiles
• Includes articles on business fields such as
  marketing, management, accounting, finance,
  economics, etc. Additional full text, non-journal
  content includes market research reports,
  industry reports, country reports, company
  profiles, etc.
• Factiva Companies/Markets

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Company Information

• Company Information (from Etnet)
• http//www.etnet.com.hk/
• Provides company profiles for listed companies in
  Hong Kong.
• Yahoo! HongKong Finance - Company Information
• http//hk.biz.yahoo.com/company/company.html
• Quamnet.com Analysis
• http//www.quamnet.com/analysis.action
• Research Hub from finet.com
• http//www.finet.hk/mainsite/index.htm

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Annual Reports

• Current issues (printed version) -- shelved
  separately under "Listed Company Collection" in
  1/F Reading Room.
• Listed Companies of HK from irasia.com
  http//www.irasia.com/listco/hk/
• HKExNews
• http//www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advance
  dsearch/search_active_main.asp
• Quick Links to Annual Reports / Financial
  Information
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/sir/misc/stockexchan
  ges.html

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• Company Financials/Stock Quotes
• Datastream
• Factiva Companies/Markets
• LexisNexis Academic
• Stock Quotes
• Datastream
• Factiva Companies/Markets
• Yahoo! HongKong Finance
• http//hk.finance.yahoo.com
• Google
• http//www.google.com.hk

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Competitors

• Hoovers Pro (Academic Version)
• Business Source Premier Company Profiles
• Factiva Companies/Markets

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Company News

• Factiva (English Chinese)
• LexisNexis Academic(English)
• Hoovers Pro (Academic Version)(English)
• WiseNews (Chinese English)

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China Company Industry Information

• Wind China Financial Information Services
  (Wind.Net)
• Financial data and news for China including
  listed companies (A-share and B-share), fund,
  bond, macro economic data, etc.
• China InfoBank (?????)
• An important source of economic and business
  data, legislations, statistics and news of
  Mainland China. Most information is in Chinese.
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• Ask A Librarian
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eref/
• Integrated Helpdesk
• refstaff_at_ln.edu.hk
• 2616-8571

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