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CHEM: Pharmaceutical Companies (Chukwu)

Created for ECHS students doing research on pharmaceutical companies.

Search for a Company Profile

How to Find a Company Profile

  1. Open Business Market Research Collection.
  2. In the search box, type the company name.
  3. Click Search.
  4. Look for the most recent report from Hoover's Company Records.
  5. Click Full text - PDF to view the report.

Company Profiles

What is in a company profile?

Scrolling through the report, you will find . . .

  • a brief company overview
  • description
  • company history
  • financials
  • competitors, etc.

Examples

Below are examples of company profiles found in Business Market Research Collection. Even if your company is listed below as an example, search again to make sure you find the most recent company profile available.

IMPORTANT! The APA citations given for company profiles in Business Market Research Collection are NOT CORRECT! Use the information provided further down on this page to create a correct citation for a company profile from this database that you use in your project.

APA Citation

The APA citations given for company profiles in Business Market Research Collection are NOT CORRECT! Use the information provided in this section to create a correct citation for a company profile from this database that you use in your project.

Copied Citation - INCORRECT

There are formatting issues to fix and pieces of information to add in order to create a correct citation. 

 

Pfizer Inc. (2023). (). Fort Mill: Mergent. Retrieved from Business Market Research Collection https://login.proxy138.nclive.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/reports/pfizer-inc/docview/1860751466/se-2

CORRECTED Citation - Use this example!

 

D&B Hoovers (2023). Pfizer Inc. [Company profile]. Business Market Research Collection. Retrieved January 12, 2024, from https://login.proxy138.nclive.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/reports/pfizer-inc/docview/1860751466/se-2

Use the graphic below as a quick reference to see where the various pieces of information come from. Keep scrolling for the detailed text of what should be included and in what order.

Screenshot of company profile

Details

Here are the instructions for finding and placing the pieces of information needed, in order, as they should appear in the citation:

  1. Click the Cite button provided by the database to copy the APA citation provided. You can keep the company name, year, and the URL that's provided.
  2. Author of the report as it appears on the report itself:
    • D&B Hoovers
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the next page in the PDF report to get the year. Put it in parentheses followed by a period:
    • (2023).
  4. Company name as listed on the report itself. If the company name does not include a period at the end, then don't include it:
    • Pfizer Inc.
  5. Type of report in brackets followed by a period:
    • [Company profile].
  6. Database title in italics followed by a period:
    • Business Market Research Collection.
  7. Date you found the report and the URL written as a sentence with NO PERIOD at the end:
    • Retrieved January 12, 2024, from https://login.proxy138.nclive.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/reports/pfizer-inc/docview/1860751466/se-2