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Basic U.S. Company Information (cont'd)

Step 2:

Determine a U.S. company's Status: Public vs. Private

One way to determine if a U.S. company is publicly or privately held is to search Dun's Market Identifiers® (File 516), produced by Dun and Bradstreet. Tip 1-2

Let's conduct a search in File 516 to get some basic information on Apple Computer. It will also show us where its headquarters is located and, of course, whether it is public or private.

The search is demonstrated below using DialogWeb 2.0. You will have a chance to try searching DialogWeb on your own for the practice exercises at the end of the lesson.

To see a movie of the logon procedure, click here.

Click the Command Summary icon to see a summary of the commands we will use for this search.

I will type in BEGIN 516 in the Command text box, click the button or press the ENTER key on the keyboard to start my search.

BEGIN 516

File 516, Dun's Market Identifiers, is highlighted in the Database Details box. I also have the option of clicking the button that will show me information about the database from the bluesheet for File 516.

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