CORPORATIONS

CONTENTS:

• Business Week - The Global 1000
• Crain's Chicago Business - Company Research
• A Few of Chicago's Top Companies
• Research Bookmarks - Northwestern University
• Individual Investor

BUSINESS WEEK - THE GLOBAL 1000

This year's annual listing of the top 1000 companies (by market capitalization) reflects the recent batterings endured by technology firms. For example, Intel, formerly the world's second most valuable company, slid to thirteenth place, while Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, rose from twentieth to fourth place. General Electric is in first place again this year.

BusinessWeek's site offers the full listing, along with scoreboards, tables and related content.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_28/b3740010.htm

CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS - COMPANY RESEARCH

Several of us are featuring Crain's this month, so I'll just briefly mention their Company Research page. You'll find ranked lists of Chicago area companies, their top executives, revenues, profits, employees, and hot links to each company's web site.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/portal.pl?id=25

or, on the home page, look mid-page-right for Company Research

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/

A FEW OF CHICAGO'S TOP COMPANIES (ranked by 2000 revenues)

Publicly held companies
http://www.sears.com	http://www.allstate.com
http://walgreens.com	http://www.cat.com (Caterpillar)
http://www.ual.com	http://www.saralee.com
Private Companies
http://www.hyatt.com	http://www.AlliantExchange.com
http://www.TruServ.com	http://www.KemperInsurance.com
http://www.eby-brown.com

When you reach a company's web site, find information on their corporate giving interests by looking for terms like "community," "public affairs," "grants," "news," "foundation," and "About (the company)." If it's not apparent on the front page, check the site index.

RESEARCH BOOKMARKS - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

As long as we're in the neighborhood, let's visit the research department in the development office at Northwestern U. Christina Pulawski and her researchers created and maintain this page of super links for prospect researchers. Look for their favorites (with stars).

http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~fla331/

INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR

Individualinvestor.com provides simple tutorials with instruction on the basics. Learn how to read an income statement, a balance sheet, a proxy statement, a statement of cash flows, an annual report and much more. Take some time to refresh your knowledge of these useful research tools.

http://www.individualinvestor.com

Beverly Goodwin