Mergent Archives: Historical Company and Industry Reports
Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents, containing hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. It uses a reliable and easy-to-navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs. The archive includes the following collections:
The Moody’/Mergent Historical Corporate Manual Collection provides every Moody’s corporate manual back to 1909. This collection provides a comprehensive and in-depth insight into the history of corporate America. The online Manuals collection gives you access to corporate history, business descriptions and detailed financial statements. The set includes the:
- Industrial Manual since 1920
- OTC Unlisted Manual since 1986
- Public Utility Manual since 1914
- International Manual since 1981
- OTC Industrial Manual since 1970
- Bank & Finance Manual since 1928
- Transportation Manual since 1909.
The Moody’s/Mergent Municipal Manual Collection provides every Moody’s manual back to inception in 1918. They include approximately 16,500 issuers of municipal securities and the Special Features section in each volume includes:
- Moody’s Municipal Bond Yield Averages (with charts)
- Average Yields of U.S. Government Bonds (with charts)
- Chart showing Comparative Yields on Municipals, Treasure Bonds and Corporate Bonds • Chart showing State Bonds compared with U.S. Treasuries
- Analysis of State Highway Fund Operations
- Income Statistics by State.
The Hoover’s Historical Manual Collection covering over 20 years of the various Hoover’s handbooks. The Hoovers products include:
- Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies
- Hoover’s Handbook of World Business
- Hoover’s Handbook of Emerging Companies
- Hoover’s Handbook of American Business
- Hoover’s MasterList of World Business
You can also use Hoover’s and Mergent Online for the most recent company data.
by: Patricia Dillon Sobczak, assistant professor and collections librarian
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