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Locating Company Annual Reports from Past Decades On-Line

Posted by nlgiu on May 28, 2009

To find on-line annual reports for the 1970’s and 1980’s, choose the  LexisNexis Academic database on our webpage here:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1336

Select the “Business” tab at the top of the page,  then “Company Profiles” on the left hand side of screen.  In the “Sources” drop box, in the middle of the screen, check off  “Annual Reports – Corporate; 1972 – 1984″  or “Annual Reports – Corporate, 1984 – 1995″  for a particular stock issuing company.  

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How do I find the foreign subsidaries of American parent companies?

Posted by nlgiu on May 21, 2009

Go to the CorporateAffiliations.com database found on our website here:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1336

and type in the name of the parent company that you’re looking for in the search box. 

In the case of a firm like NIKE, for example, search results include a list of all its subsidaries in Asia, Europe, and Canada.  Company subsidary listings include the addresses, telephone numbers, primary SIC/NAIC codes, brief business descriptions, number of employees, and top executives.

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Bill Cook, innovator in state’s life sciences industry, to speak at IU conference in Indianapolis

Posted by nlgiu on May 5, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 4, 2009

EDITORS: The media is invited to attend this event. A complete program schedule and parking information is available at http://www.kelley.iu.edu/cbls/conferences/conf4.html.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Cook, founder of Cook Group Inc. and an early innovator in Indiana’s life sciences industry, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth and final event in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

Cook will be joined by other key collaborators in academia and business, including Dr. Richard DiMarchi, the Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Biomedical Sciences at Indiana University and co-founder of Ambrx and Marcadia Biotech.

The seminar, “Strategic Collaborations,” will take place from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at University Place and Conference Center, 850 W. Michigan St., on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. …

…. http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10725.html

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