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Boston
Public Library
Directories
of Companies in Massachusetts
Kirstein
Business Branch
20
City Hall Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
617-523-0860
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- The
following selection of directories, available at
the Kirstein Business Branch, will help you find
information on local firms. The information
varies with each directory, but typical listings
include: company name, address, telephone
number, size of business, product or service,
and names of officers. All of these directories
are kept at the desk on the first floor.
- Massachusetts
Business Directory.
Omaha, NE: American Business Publishing Co.
Annual.
- Compiled
from the yellow pages, this directory lists over
230,000 businesses across Massachusetts arranged
by product or service and by city or town. The
information is brief: name, address, phone
number and type of yellow page ad. It also
includes a small section of manufacturing firms
with 10 or more employees, with estimates for
number of employees and sales volume (a
companion CD-ROM, American Business Disc, covers
the entire U.S. and is also available on the
first floor).
- Dun's
Regional Business Directory: Boston
Area.
Parsippany: Dun's Marketing Services.
Annual.
- A
directory that includes about 20,000 companies
from a geographic area extending from Boston to
Worcester and north of Cape Cod. It includes a
list of the top 1000 firms in the area ranked by
employees and by sales.
- Massachusetts
Manufacturers Directory.
Twinsburg, OH: Harris Publishing.
Annual.
- More
than 7,000 manufacturers are listed by city and
indexed alphabetically, by product, and by SIC
code. This also contains a useful statistical
section which breaks down the number of
establishments and number of employees by SIC
group and county.
- Massachusetts
Manufacturing Directory
Standish, ME: Tower Publishing. Annual.
- More
than 5,700 manufacturing and processing firms
who employ 10 or more people. Firms are listed
alphabetically, geographically by city and by
SIC code.
- Massachusetts
Manufacturers Register.
Evanston, IL: Manufacturers News.
Annual.
- Massachusetts
manufacturing firms listed geographically with
product, SIC and alphabetic indexes.
- Directory
of Directors in the City of Boston and
Vicinity.
Boston: The Bankers Service Company.
- Names the officers
and Board of Directors of a variety of organizations, including companies,
hospitals, and colleges. 2001 was the last edition published.
- The Complete guide to the Massachusetts
software & internet industry.
Boston: Massachusetts Software & Internet Council.
- directory of over 3,272 software
and Internet companies (alphabetical with addresses, description of products & services,
sales and employment data, hardware platforms, markets and applications,
international distribution); product and geographic indices; brief analysis of the
software and Internet industry in Massachusetts. 2005/2006 is the last published in print.
- Manufacturing in Boston
Boston: Boston Redevelopment Authority, 2002.
- Manufacturing companies in Boston
listed alphabetically and by SIC, NAICS and Zip Code.
- New England Directory of Technology Companies
Boston: Mass High Tech, annual.
- The popular
print directory profiling over 9,000 New England technology-related corporations. Includes
information about software, internet/interactive, namufacturing, engineering, research, and
consulting companies.
In addition to directories that focus
on Massachusetts there are many databases that although national in coverage, can be
limited to Massachusetts. These include:
D&B Million Dollar Database (online--may also be used from home with a valid BPL library card.)
Mergent Online (online--may also be used from home with a valid BPL library card.)
Reference USA
(online--may also be used from home with a valid BPL library card.)
S & P Corporations (CD ROM)
For full database descriptions visit our Database Resources page.
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