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Understanding the structure of a company helps you:
assess whether or not you need to search a different company or search theparent company to get most information
track turnover within a company or track a company's stability over time
determine ownership of a company as well as the products and brands
Key Terminology (used by Dun & Bradstreet): TIP: Consult each source's guide for its definitions. (Source: Pagell, Ruth A. and Michael Halperin. International BusinessInformation: How to Find It, How toUse It. 2nd.ed., p. 155)
Corporate FamilyLocation
Top-most company of a corporate family
Headquarters
Main office of acompany. Impliesexistence of one ormore branches reportingto it, under same name.
Branch
Secondary location of acompany. Reports toheadquarters andcarries same name as headquarters.
Division
Secondary location of acompany. Reports toheadquarters butusually has a distinctname or trade name.
Parent
Corporation that ownsmore than 50% of thevoting stock of anothercorporation (thesubsidiary).
Subsidiary
Corporation in whichmore than 50% of itsvoting stock is ownedby another company
How Do You Know The Status?
Annual Reports: Annual Reports provide a company's hierarchy and obscure information on its subsidiaries and its mergers and acquisitions. Print and Electronic Directories: [In addition to a company's web site, print and electronic directories offer a quick assessment of the corporate structure. Tip: When figuring total sales for a company through directories, you may need to analyze multiple records (e.g. for the headquarters and branches) for a fuller picture.] Directory of Corporate Affiliations (public, private, U.S. and international companies) Call number: HG4057.A217 International Directory of Company Histories -- Search index of latest vol. for name of company or parent company to see which volumes contain profiles. Good for in-depth history, description, founders and personnel, and mergers & acquisitions. GENERAL REFERENCE HD271 2.I57 1988 QUARTO Brands and their Companies -- latest edition in GENERAL REFERENCE T 223.V4A23, earlier ones in the MSEL stacks.
Business listings for over 10 million public and private companies andnonprofit organizations are based on annual reports, national phone books,newspapers, post office forms and legal filings. Similar in purpose to Dun's, but withoutlimits on inclusion. Cannot rank results. Providesmaps.
Up and down arrows depict corporate hierarchy. Click arrows to see what a company owns, or who owns that company. Parent company record will have both an up and down arrow by its name.
Includes public and private companies with over a million ormore in sales or over twenty full-time employees. Profiles include sales, line of business (SIC), employee counts,address, year founded, public or private, trading exchange and symbol, etc. They also contain brief biographical data for seniorexecutives. Can search by geography (even zip code) and industry, amongvarious options. Can limit search criteria tosubsidiary or non-subsidiary status or type of location (headquarter,branch, or single location.) Includes ability to sort results.
Profiles PUBLIC companies. Includes news, history, & financial information on 10,000 international and national companies including industrial, OTC (over-the-counter) industrial, bank & finance, transportation, public utility, and international companies. Full-image, full-text annual reports. Updated quarterly.
Tracks mergers and acquisitions through its company profiles and the archive, which displays the last record and financials for a company before its merger. Try searching on the name of a subsidiary in the basic search. Otherwise, try a text search in business history in the Advanced Search screen.
LexisNexis Academic contain news and company profiles. Click on the Business menu within to search the Business News file. Choose sub-category called Mergers & Acquisitionsnews.
Articles and News:
Business article and news databases are best for details and timely news on companies, products, bankruptcies, announcements of corporate changes and ownership.
Mergers & Acquisitions Data:
Bloomberg Financial Service (restricted to current JHU faculty and students for academic research):
Sample M & A data from Bloomberg:
*M & A League Tables (YTD top financial advisers--market share, dollar volume and number of announced global deals by adviser) *M&A Transaction Values (EURO, Northeast Asia, Global, US) *Top Deals Announced (targets, acquirer, type, USD value) *All time largest deals--US *All time largest deals--Global *Largest deals in last 7 days *YTD terminated deals *All deals pending and disclosed *Todays announced deals *YTD announced deals for (EURO, US, Cross-border, and global) *M&A statistics for 1) most active industries and 2) volume, ave premium, and payment type by month *Global M&A volume *M&A news
Ways to Obtain:
1) Once logged in, type MAIN. Hit <GO>. Either Type MA and hit <GO> or choose number 28 for keyword search. Type M&A. Hit <GO>. (You could also type mergers)
2) Enter specific number and hit <GO> to look at deeper layers of information within screens.
SDC Platinum (restricted to current JHU faculty and students for academic research):
University's subscription includes three data sets: Mergers & Acquisitions, Repurchases and Global New Issues.
SDC Platinum is available only from two designated terminals (#2-3) in Government Publications, on Level A of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Ask library staff for assistance with access. Contact library staff at 410-516-8360 to reserve the terminal for a specific time.
The resource is available to one user at a time during business hours. Simultaneous access from these terminals is available during evenings and weekends.
View the Business Enterprise section of the Statistical Abstract of the United States (2006 ed.) for tables related to Bankrupcies, Mergers and Acquisitions.
