Opportunity Links

 

Certifications alone will not guarantee your company success.  You must constantly look for new markets and opportunities to sell your products or provide your services to grow your business.  Below are some of the many resources you can use to help you grow your business.

 

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The City of New Orleans has several oportunities for businesses to provide goods and/or services to the City.

10KWizard provides expanded coverage and advanced search capabilities of the SEC's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) database. It allows you to perform keyword searches on up-to-the-minute SEC filings and set up alerts for companies you want to track. The database includes all 418 electronically filed forms, EDGAR Archives through 1994, pre-EDGAR Historical Index (listing) of all SEC filings to 1966, and foreign filers.

ArcGIS (ArcView & ArcInfo) and Site Targeter are Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software products produced by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) & Tactician Corporation, respectively. They are desktop geographic information systems (GIS) used in analyzing demographic, expenditure, and lifestyle information. Output comes in the form of maps, tables and reports.

Choicepoint provides online access to a variety of nationwide public records, legal, and credit information. It contains more than 14 billion records on individuals and businesses, and must be used for permissible purposes such as official government business.

DIALOG provides an interface to more than 500,000 sources of scientific, technical, medical, business, news and intellectual property information. Its 900 databases contain in excess of 800 million records.  Dialog provides company and industry intelligence covering nearly a half million companies worldwide as well as market share and sales figures, business directories and financials on 14 million U.S. and international companies.

Dodge Construction Reports is a comprehensive source of information on commercial construction and planning activity. Businesses such as general or sub-contractors, architects, engineers, building products manufacturers, and material suppliers can target bids to projects that meet exact criteria.

Dun & Bradstreet offers an online database of more than 79 million businesses around the world, including 18 million in the U.S. D&B's Business Industry Report (BIR) provides an overall profile of a company, including: financial information, payment history and trends, history of a business, ownership details, operational information, and details on related firms and special events (such as business moves, fires and other disasters, and quarterly performance). Companies can conduct research for planning, search for potential suppliers and business partners, gather financial stress and other competitive intelligence on potential partners and competitors, and identify and link to companies in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Factiva.com** provides single point access to over 8,000 local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires in 22 languages. Businesses can monitor competitors, customers, and industry, while also conducting in-depth research and gathering company financial data.

GuideStar is a national database of U.S. charitable organizations that gathers and distributes data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits. You can search the nonprofit organization database at no cost by doing a Quick Search. Fee-based services include full-featured searches of the GuideStar database, and access to the Grant Explorer, a database of funders that contains information on more than 34,000 of the nation's largest private foundations.

Harris InfoSource** provides complete coverage of all 14 million U.S. businesses along with significant Canadian firms. The database includes Harris profiles on every U.S. manufacturing company, regardless of size; D&B information on U.S. firms in all other industries; and D&B information on Canadian firms with 20 or more employees or $500,000 in sales. It includes products such as the Selectory online, which allows you to create targeted lists of prospects using employment, SIC or NAICS codes, geography, D&B® Credit Class Ratings and other factors. The database is segmented into an array of information products available on CD-ROM, online, and in print by geography and employment size.

Hoover's database includes 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 major companies. Hoover's allows you to create targeted contact lists and custom company reports, and to locate hard to reach small businesses. You can search for business information by company name or keyword, industry, news reports or press releases, ticker, stock quote, or executive name.

IBIS World publishes US industry market research reports. There are currently reports for 700 industries, analyzed at the 5th digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). IBISWorld reports are regularly updated by a team of industry economists and range in size from a minimum of 20 pages to over 30 pages each.  All the reports are formatted the same way, with the same table of contents. Each report contains data on key statistics, industry structure including market size, supply/demand chain, market segmentation, major players and market share, industry analysis including current and historical performance, 5-year forecasts, key management and industry success factors, and other facts.

Lexis-Nexis (Reed Elsevier, Inc.) accesses over 14,000 news sources ranging from news or journal articles to intellectual information, financial reports, international and journalism reports, broadcast transcripts as well 4,800 as legal materials such as senate bills and house reports. Public records comprise 3.3 billion documents. State regulatory tracking is also available via the Lexis-Nexis services.

  • 800-227-9597
  • http://www.lexisnexis.com

Marketplace Gold (Dun & Bradstreet) is a DVD list of more than 13 million U.S. businesses. Marketplace allows you to conduct targeted lead generation by type of business (to 8-digit SIC code), geography, number of employees, annual sales, ownership, type of site, and year started. It is also possible to profile customers and conduct in-depth analysis of a business's customer base and market penetration. A variety of reports as well as mailing labels can be created.

MarketPro (Information Advantage, Inc.) is a real estate research database that provides over 50 data categories relating to property and ownership. Data includes owner address, parcel number, lot size, building square footage, and sales information for the entire Denver metro area. The database is searchable in numerous ways and is updated monthly.

Plunkett Research Online (Plunkett Research, Ltd.) provides industry sector analysis and research, industry trends, and industry statistics. Industries covered include advertising and branding; airlines, hotels and travel; apparel and textiles; automobiles and trucks; biotechnology; computers and Internet; consulting; e-commerce; energy and utilities; engineering and research; entertainment and media; financial services; banking and insurance; food and beverages; health care and biotech; nanotechnology and MEMS; real estate and construction; retail; telecommunications and wireless; transportation, supply chain and logistics; and several others.

ReferenceUSA (InfoUSA) is a database of 14 million U.S. and 1.2 million Canadian businesses. It is sold under a variety of formats and pricing structures (including BusinessUSA, American Business Disk, and Reference USA), depending on whether the subscriber is a library, government agency, or corporate entity. Like Dun & Bradstreet's MarketPlace, it is designed to search for company information and create prospect or marketing lists. Data is gathered from a number of sources and verified by telephone. The database can be searched by location, type of business, business size, credit rating, phone/fax number, and executive name. You can also pay for individual prospect lists instead of subscribing to the service.

SkyMinder (CRIBIS Corporation) aggregates information sources from many different international providers and locally-based sources, and supplies online credit and business information on over 50 million companies in 230 countries. You can search by company or industry (NAICS codes) to find and purchase company financial or credit reports.

SpecialIssues.com (Trip Wycoff), tracks "special issues" of trade and industry journals in dozens of industries. These publications include industry outlooks, overviews, or surveys; statistical issues; company ranking lists; buyers guides; salary surveys; product/industry focus issues; membership directories; who's who registers; and tradeshow specials.  A link is included to the actual article or issue, when available on the web. Otherwise, you will need to obtain the issue through a library or obtain it for a fee from a document delivery service or the publisher.

SRDS Direct Marketing List Source® is a print and online directory of marketing list rental information. The database contains sources, selects, costs and other information on targeted lists for use in direct marketing campaigns. A subscription includes both the print version, which is updated bimonthly, and an online database that you can search by market classification, list title, high-ticket mail order buyers, and demographic information. SRDS also publishes The Lifestyle Market Analyst, an annual print-only publication that provides market analysis of potential local, regional and national audiences using data compiled from more than 19 million households.  

StatUSA is a low-cost subscription service offered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The GLOBUS & NTDB section of the website provides international trade resources, including the NTDB Global Trade Directory, Country Commercial Guides, International Market Insight (IMI) reports, agricultural market research, and Industry Sector Analysis reports, all organized by country.

Thomson Business Intelligence (Thomson) contains market research reports from more than 130 market research companies, including Euromonitor, Frost and Sullivan, Gartner, and others. The advantage of this database is that you can buy the reports "by the slice" and pay for only the small section of the report you really need. There is no "unlimited use" subscription; a deposit account is set up for an amount based on projected yearly usage. Note: if you don't use up your deposit amount within a 12-month period, you lose it.

Bidclerk.com

 

Online database of commercial construction projects bids and proposals. 

 

Fedmarket.com  A comprehensive resource website on doing business with the Federal Government.

Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs

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A. G. Edwards & Sons
A.H. Belo Corporation
A.J. Wright
Abbott Laboratories
Accenture
Ackley Financial Group, Inc. ACS
ADC Telecommunications
Adecco USA, Inc.
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland)
ADP, Inc.
Adtran
Advanced Fibre Communications
Advanced Sterilization Products
Advocate Health Care
AEG
Aetna, Inc.
Affiliated Computer Systems, Inc.
Ahold
Albertson's
Alcatel
Align Solutions Corporation
Allegiance Health Care Corp
Allfirst
Allstate
Alltel Corporation
Altria Family of Companies
Alza
Amdocs, Inc.
American Airlines
American Express
American Family Mutual Insurance
American National Bank
American National Can Co.
American Red Cross
Ameritech
AMTRAK
Anheuser-Busch Companies
APL, Limited
Apple Computer
Aramark Corporation
Ariba
Arizona Public Service Corp.
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Ashland Inc.
Associates Commercial Corporation
Associates First Capital Corporation
AstraZeneca
AT&T
AT&T Wireless
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Hawks
Atlanta Thrashers
Atlantic
Austin Industries
Austin-Tetra
Auto Club Group of America (AAA)
Avaya
Avery Paper and Office Products
Avis Rent-a-Car
Avon
AXA
Baker Hughes
Baltimore Gas & Electric
Banco Popular
Bank of America
Bank One
Bank United of Texas
Barton Malow
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
BB&T
Bechtel Corporation
Bell Helicopter/Textron, Inc.
BellSouth Telecommunications
Belo Corporation
BestStaff Services, Inc.
BetzDearborn, Inc.
Blank Rome LLP
Bloomingdale's
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois
Blue Shield of California
Boeing
Boise Cascade Office Products
Bon Marché
Book of the Month Club
Booz Allen Hamilton
Borden Family of Companies
Boyd Gaming Company
BP America
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Broadlane
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
BT Office Products International
Budget Rent A Car
Burdine's
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Co.
Captial One Services
Care Products, Inc.
Caremark RX
Cargill, Inc.
Cartoon Network
Castle Rock Entertainment
Celanese Chemical Ltd.
Cendant Car Rental Group
Cendant Corporation
Centerior Energy Corp.
CenterPoint Energy
Centex Construction Company
Centocor
Central & Southwest Services
Certified Midwest Construction
Chase Bank of Texas, N.A.
Chevron Texaco
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Chimes
Choice Hotels International
Chubb Corporation
Cinemax
Cinergy Corporation
Cingular Wireless
Cisco Systems, Inc.
CitiBank
CitiGroup
Citizens Financial Group
City of Battle Creek
City of Chicago, Illinois
City of Columbus, Ohio
City of Dallas, Texas
City of East Lansing, Michigan
City of Grand Rapids, Michigan
City of Houston, Texas
City of Indianapolis, Indiana
City of Lansing, Michigan
City of Miami
City of Shreveport
City of Tampa, Florida
CNN
CNN Airport Network
CNN Financial Network
CNN Interactive
CNN International
Coastal Corporation
Coca Cola Enterprises
Cole Taylor Bank
Colgate Palmolive Company
Columbus Port Authority
Columbus Public Schools
Comcast Cable Communications
Commercia Bank
Commonwealth Edison
Communications Test Design
Compass Bank
Computer Consultants of America
Computer Sciences Corp.
ConAgra Foods
Conoco
Consolidated Edison
Continental Airlines
Continental National Bank
Coors Brewing Company
Cordis
Corgan Associates, Inc.
Corporate Express
Corporation for Economic
Cosmetic Essence Inc.
Credit Suisse
Culligan Water Conditioning of
Cummins, Inc.
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport
Dallas Independent School District
Darden Resturants
DC Comics
Delaware River Port Authority
Dell Computer Corporation
Deloitte Services LP
Delphi Corporation
Delta Airlines, Inc.
Deluxe Corporation
DePuy
Designtex
Detroit Tigers
Deutsche Bank
Development of Harris County
Devon Bank
Dial Corporation
Diebold
Dominick's Finer Foods
DSC Communications
Duke Energy Corporation
Dun & Bradstreet
DuPont Company
Durr
Dynegy
DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations Company
East Side Bank and Trust
Eastman Kodak Company
Eaton
Eckerd Corp.
Eddie Bauer
EDS
Elektra Entertainment Group
Elmer's
Energy East
ENSERCH
Entergy
Enterprise Rent A Car
Entertainment Weekly
Equitable Solutions, Inc.
Ericsson
Ernst and Young
Ethicon
Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Excelon
Express Scripts, Inc.
Exxon Mobil
Exxon Mobil Chemical
F.H. Paschen/S.N. Nielsen
Fannie Mae
Federal Mogul
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Federated Department Stores, Inc.
Federated Financial & Credit Services
Federated Logistics
Federated Merchandising Group
Federated Systems Group
Fedex Freight
Fifth Third Bank
FINA Oil and Chemical Co
Fingerhut
First Chicago, A Bank One Company
FirstEnergy Corporation
Flagstar Corporation
Fleet Bank
FleetBoston
Fluor Daniel, Inc.
Fluor Global Services, Inc.
Ford Motor Company
Fortune Magazine
Freddie Mac
Freddie-Mac
Frito-Lay
Frost Capital Group
Frost National Bank
Fujitsu Network Communications
Galderma Laboratories, Inc.
Gatorade
Genentech
General Dynamics Decision Systems
General Mills
General Mills, Inc.
General Motors Corporation
George Hyman Construction Co.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Gilbane Building Company
Glaxo Wellcome
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman, Sach's and Co.
Goldsmith's
GPU Energy Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating
Grainger
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Group
GSD&M
Guaranty Bank
Halliburton
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Hamilton County, Ohio
Hanna Barbera
Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Harrah's Entertainment
Harris Trust and Savings Bank
HBO
Headline NewsHeller Financial, Inc.
Health Care Service
Health Trust
Heinz USA
Herman Miller
Hertz Corporation
Hewitt Associates
Hewlett Packard Company
Hillwood Development Corporation
Hilton Hotels
Hoescht Celanese Corporation
Hollywood Marine, Inc.
Home Depot
Home Goods
Honda of America
Honeywell
Hormel Foods Corporation
Houston Asset Management, Inc.
Houston Astros/Astrodome USA
Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Houston Community College System
Houston Independent School District
Houston Lighting & Power
Houston Savings Bank
Houston Voice
Houston, Inc.
HSBC
IBM
IKON
Illinois Central Railroad
Independence Blue Cross
Independence Technology
ING
Inland Steel Company
InStyle
Intel Corporation
Intelsat
Interpublic Group
IP Unity
Ispat Inland, Inc.
Jackson Walker, LLP
James McHugh Construction
Janssen Pharmaceutical Products
JC Penney Company
Jewel Osco
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls
Jones Lang LaSalle
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
JP Morgan Chase and Co.

Kaiser Permanente
Kellogg Company
Kellogg, Brown & Root
Kelly Services
Kelly Services
Kendall Health Care Products Co.
KFC
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
KINKO'S Inc.
Kmart Corporation
KPMG LLP
Kraft Foods International, Inc.
Kraft Foods, Inc.
La Salle National Bank
La Salle Partners/LPI Service Corporation
Lansing Board of Water and Light
Lazarus
Lear Astronics Corporation
Lehman Brothers
Lifescan
Limited Brands
Linbeck Construction Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Long Island Development Corporation
Loop, LLC
L'Oreal
Lucent Technologies Inc.
Mack Trucks
Macy's Department Stores
Magna Donnelly
Major League Baseball
Manpower
Marathon Oil Company
Marriott International
Marshall's
MasterCard International
Masterfoods USA
May Department Stores
Maytag Corporation
MBNA Procurement Services
McCormick & Co., Inc.
McCoy Inc.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
McKinsey Consulting
McNeil Nutritionals
McNeil Pharmaceuticals
Mercedes-Benz
Merck
Merrill Lynch
MetLife
MetroBank N.A.
Metropolitan Transit Authority/Office of Business Development
MGM Mirage
M-I, L.L.C.
Michelin North America
Michigan State University
Michigan, State of
Microsoft
Miller Brewing Company
Minyard Food Stores, Inc.
Mir*Fox & Rodriquez, P.C.
Mitsubishi Motors America, Inc.
Monsanto Company
Morgan Stanley
Motion Industries
Motorola
Mrs. Baird's Bakeries
Nabisco Biscuit Company
Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, L.P.
NASA Johnson Space Center
National - Oilwell, L.P.
National City Corporation
Nationwide
Navistar International Transportation Corp.
NBC
NCR Corporation
Nestle USA
Network Appliance
Neutrogena
Nevada Bell
New Line Cinema
New York City
Nicor Gas
Nike
Nokia
Noramco
Nordstrom
Nortel Networks
North Broward Hospital District
North Texas Commission
Northern Telecom
Northern Trust Company
Northrop Grumman
Northwest Bank N.A.
Northwest Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University
Novation
O.C. Tanner Company
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Odyssey Resource Management, Inc.
Office Depot
Old Kent Bank
OmniBank N.A.
On-Target Supplies and Logistics
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Oregon Lottery
Ortho Biotech Products
Ortho Pharmaceuticals
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals
Owens Corning
PacBell
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
PaineWebber
Palmet Venture
Pantellos
Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group, Inc.
Parsons Process Group, Inc.
Peco Energy
Pennzoil Quaker State
People Magazine
People's Gas Light & Coke, Co.
Pep Boys-Manny, Moe, & Jack
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Pepper Construction Company
PepsiCo Inc.
Performa Solutions, Inc.
Personal Products Company
Pfizer
Philips Services Corporation
Pitney-Bowes
Pizza Hut
Polaroid Corporation
Polyone
Port of Portland
Potlatch Corporation
Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO)
Premier
Principal Financial Group
Principal Mutual Life Insurance
Procter & Gamble
Product Development Corporation
Prudential Company of America
Public Utility Commission of California
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Quaker Oats
R.R. Donnelley
Raytheon
Regulus Intergrated Solutions, LLC
Reliant Energy
Rich's
Road Runner
Robert Half International, Inc.
Roche
Rohm & Haas Texas, Inc.
Royal Vendors, Inc.
Ryder
Sabre, Inc.
Safeco Land Title of Dallas
Safeguard Disposal Systems, Inc.
SAIC
Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.
Salt River Project (SRP)
SAS Institute
SBC Communications
SBTV
SC Johnson
Schering Plough
SchlumbergerSema
School District of Philadelphia
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Sempra Energy Utilities
Shell Offshore
Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Products US
Shell Services International
Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
SNET
Solectron
Southern Living
Southern Maintenance Services
Southern New England Tel
Southland Corporation
Southwest Bank of Texas N.A.
Southwestern Bell
Southwestern Electric Services Co
Soverign Bank
Specialty Hospital of Houston, Inc.
Spherion Corporation
Spirent Communications
Sports Illustrated
Sprint Nextel
Square D Company
Staples
Star Enterprises
Starbucks
Starwood Hotels and Resorts
State Farm Insurance Co.
State of Delaware
State of Ohio Department of Development
State of Pennsylvania
State of Texas
Sterling Commerce
Stern's Corporation
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation
Stop and Shop
Sunoco, Inc.
Sunset Magazine
Synovus Financial Corporation
Taco Bell Corporation
Tampa Electric Company
Target
TBS Superstation
TCI Communications
TDIndustries
Teen People
Telcordia Technologies
Temerlin McClain
Texas Commerce Bank
Texas Instruments
Texas New Mexico Power Company
Texas Utilities
Texas Utilities Mining Company
The Boeing Company/Seattle
The Coca Cola Company
The Day and Zimmermann
The Gillette Company
The GNI Group
The Kroger Company
The M. W. Kellogg Company
The Prime Group
The Spectacle Lens Group
The St. Paul Companies
The World Bank Group
Therakos
Thomas Cook Foreign Exchange
TIAA-CREF
Timberland
Time Inc.
Time Life
Time Magazine
Time Warner
Time Warner Cable
TJ Maxx
TJX Companies, Inc.
TK Maxx
Total System Services
Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Toyota Motors Manufacturing North America
Trammell Crow Company
Tricon Global/Yum! Brands
Tropicana
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Construction Company
Turner Network Television
Turner South
TXU
TXU Electric and Gas
TXU Energy Services
TXU Lone Star Pipeline
Tyco
UH Small Business Development Center
Uncle Ben's Inc.
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Unisys
United Airlines
United Healthcare
United Parcel Service
United Space Alliance
United Technologies Corporation
University of Houston - Clear Lake
University of Michigan
Unum Corporation
US Bank
US Department of the Interior
US General Services Administration
US Postal Service
UT Health Science Center - Houston
UT Health Science Center - LBJ
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
VALIC/American General
Vastar Resources, Inc.
Verizon
Verizon Wireless
Visa USA Inc.
Vistakon
Visteon Corporation
Volkswagen of America
VOLT
Volvo Trucks North America, Inc.
VSP
VWR International
VWR Scientific
Wachovia
Walbridge Aldinger
Wal-Mart Stores
Walsh Construction Company of Illinois
Walt Disney Company
Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers Family Entertainment
Warner Brothers Home Video
Warner Brothers Records
Warner Brothers Studio Store
Warner Brothers Television Network
Warner Music Group
Washington Gas and Light Company
Washington Mutual
Waste Management, Inc.
Watson, Wyatt & Company
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
WellChoice, Inc.
Wells Fargo
Wendy's
Wesley, Brown & Bartle
Weyerhaeuser Co.