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http://finance.google.com/finance

Provides historical and current company and market information. Information on stock prices, company profiles, financial news, market summary are freely available.

http://www.ibm.com/investor/tools/financials.phtml

IBM has provided a basic introduction to financial statements for people with little experience reading financial statements or annual reports.

UIUC Online Research Resources

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258537

Provides "business information from around the world, across markets and inside companies." Products include: industry profiles offering standardized market data and competitive analysis, company profiles for 50,000 public and private companies giving detailed insight into how companies are organized and function, country profiles, Base Drivers Database featuring key macro-economic, social, demographic and industry statistics for 215 countries and live feed of news, comment and analysis to keep you fully up-to-date with all the latest business developments.

The Tools and Databases section (upper right corner) has a link to Value Consumer Markets. Retrieve data on Market Value, Market Volume, Company (Market) Share and Distribution (Channels) for beverages, food, household products, news and magazines, personal care, pet care, and tobacco, for multiple countries, from 1999 to 2011 (as of February 28, 2008).

Through the College of Business:

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/intranet/one_source.html

An excellent one-stop place for company and market information. For companies, it has detailed descriptions, current financial data and news stories. For industries, it has market research reports, news, etc. Available to UIUC affiliates only. You must register for a free account and after that it can be accessible from anywhere.

http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/index.html

This business research tutorial presents a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the World Wide Web.

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Provides historical and current company and market information. Information on stock prices, company profiles, financial news, market summary are freely available.

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