Find information on private companies
Directories
Secretary of State Corporations Division Business Names Search
- Note: can also search by owner or corporate officer name
- State Library of Oregon subscription database: Reference Solutions (U.S. Businesses)
- Useful for addresses, contacts, web address, corporate linkages (parent/child company relationships), local branches, nearby competitors.
- Use advanced search to search by business type and business characteristics (# of employees, estimated revenue, personal names)
- Use U.S. Historical Businesses for businesses that have closed
- Note: revenue amounts, number of employees provided are only estimates
News Sources
To find stories about businesses
- State Library of Oregon subscription databases:
- America’s News
- full-text of more that 2,000 U.S. news sources and more than 90 local Oregon newspapers including The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
- US Newsstream
- full-text of newspapers including Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
- Business Source Premier
- indexing and full-text of business magazines, trade publications
- Gale OneFile: Business
- indexing and full text of business magazines, trade publications
- Google News
Oregon Regulatory Database Examples
To find information businesses are required to provide by law
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