Need to find who owns a company?  Need to find a specific product?  The following data bases have information about companies:

• ReferenceUSA 

Find information about businesses, owners, phone numbers, etc, locally or nationally.
• MSDS 

Material Safety Data Sheets How safe are the materials you work with? Search by product name or company.
• Thomas Register 

Find suppliers for products

• Thomas Food Register 
• Hoovers.com

Short descriptions of companies, and their performance.

• Small Business Information on the Internet 

Put together by the New York Public Library, this is a good list of small business resources.
 
• The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information

Information and Advice from the Library of Congress.

• Intellectual Property Network