Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases; see also the four folders at the top of that list for lists of Foster databases by topic:  books, articles--full text, articles--citations and abstracts, and company and industry.   For more information on the three dozen Foster business databases, click here.   For more information about which of the three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here.   For more information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here. For answers to some frequently-asked questions about connecting to UW library databases from off-campus, click here. And, finally, see the UW Libraries' Database Usage Guidelines.
• Hoovers Online:   Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Hoovers Online offers information about 14,000 public and private companies worldwide, with links to company homepages and annual reports, charts, company capsule, competitors, divisions, earnings, financials, Fortune and Forbes rankings, history, industry information, insider trading, mission statements, news links, press releases, officers, patents, products, SEC filings, splits, subsidiaries, etc. Most information on this site is free and available on the Web (not just through the Foster Business Library homepage) but, via the Foster homepage, you can access the more detailed Subscriber Content.

  See the Company Fact Sheet for the Amgen as well as the longer Company Overview; see the Company Fact Sheet for Immunex and their Historical Financials; see also the link to their 128 SEC Filings, going back to 1995. See the link to Financials. See also the list of companies (and competitors) in the Biopharmaceuticals and Biotherapeutics industry and the company's Competitor information. See also the Biotechnology Overview and Web Resources.

• Factiva:   Use the Company Quick Search tab near the top of the screen to initiate a search for information about public or private companies; considerably more information is avaiable for the former than for the latter. (This database is only accessible from the library computers in the Foster Business Library and Balmer, MacKenzie Lewis Halls and SeaFirst Executive Education Center, on the Seattle campus, and at the Tacoma Campus and on Bothell Campus Libraries. It is not accessible from any other location on campus or through a dial-in connection.)

  A Company Quick Search for Amgen retrieved information about the company's history, news about the company, press releases, trade articles, pictures, financials, etc. Factiva has no specific company information about Immunex.

• Investext:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases; also listed under Company and Industry. Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and industry research reports prepared by leading Wall Street firms, as well as regional and international brokerage and financial firms. All reports are in PDF format. (This database is available widely on campus and may be accessed from home via the U.W. connectivity kit or via the Libraries' proxy server.)

  A company search for the ticker symbol AMGN produced a list of over 2,400 reports. A search for Immunex produced a list of over 700 reports. A keyword search for Immunex and Merger produced a list of four reports; for Immunex and Amgen, over 40 reports. A search for reports on the Biotechnology industry produced over 13,000 reports.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic:   To find company information, go to Business and then to Company Financial where you can obtain financial and other data for companies. Information is available from twenty different sources (each of which must be searched separately). Included among the sources is Hoovers Online, with members' access to company profiles. SEC filings, particularly company 10K annual reports, are a particularly rich source of company as well as industry information. Use your browser's Find command (or Control-F) to locate references to particular terms of interest in 10K filings such as trends, strategy, competitors, industry, etc. (This database is available widely on campus and may be accessed from home via the U.W. connectivity kit or via the Libraries' proxy server.)

  A search for SEC 10-K reports for IMNX retrieved 73 reports or parts of reports, from 1995 to 2001, many of the later reports with references to the merger with Amgen. See also the SEC Prospectuses for Immunex which refer to the merger, using focus terms Amgen and Merger. A 10-K search for AMGN, for all dates, retrieved 118 filings or parts of filings, back to 1990.

• Value Line:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases.   Stock information and advice on 1,700 companies, 90 industries, the stock markets and the economy; an online version of the print Value Line Investment Survey.

  Immunex is not included in this database but Amgen is.

• Compact Disclosure:   Information on over 10,000 public U.S. corporations, including ownership, size, current and 5-year summary financial data, earnings, directors and officers, annual cash flow, ratios and stock price information. Updated quarterly. Note the various backfiles which must be accessed separately. This CD-ROM database is available only in the Foster Business Library.

  Complete financials for Amgen and Immunex are available in this database and its backfiles, including details about ownership.

Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, these online resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. For links to business websites by topic, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage. Good sources for business topics include trade associations (which often provide industry data unavailable elsewhere) and government regulatory and oversight agencies (which are also a good source for industry data). When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources.
• Amgen, Inc.   Company websites often provide extensive amounts of corporate information including histories of the company, investor information such as annual reports and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, historical stock prices, executive biographies, company news and press releases, etc. Look for this information under headings for Investor Relations, About The Company, etc.

  A web search for www.immunex.com takes you to the homepage for Amgen. See Amgen's Investor Center for merger information, financials, SEC filings, annual reports for the past three years, etc. See also About Amgen. A site search for Immunex produced over 90 documents.

• Quicken.Com:   This site is a good source for information about companies and about their position among their competitors; use the Compare Companies feature on the left menu for this information.

  See the company profile for Amgen as well as the company's dominant position among its competitors in terms of market capitalization in the Biotechnology industry.

• Yahoo! Finance:   This site is excellent for company and investment information as well as an excellent source for financial ratio comparisons with industry, sector and S&P 500.

  See the company profile for Amgen as well as the excellent Ratio Comparisons for the company, its industry, its sector, and the S&P 500.

• Biotechnology Industry Organization:   "In 1993, when there were but a handful of biotechnology drugs on the market and the sequencing of the human genome was pegged for completion somewhere around 2005, two small Washington-based biotechnology trade organizations merged to create the Biotechnology Industry Organization, better known as BIO. One of the founding organizations, the Industrial Biotechnology Association (IBA), primarily represented larger, established companies on Capitol Hill and before federal regulatory agencies; the other, the Association of Biotechnology Companies (ABC), represented emerging companies and universities, and focused on technology transfer issues, meetings and other business development activities. BIO united the organizations' 503 companies and 18 employees under one umbrella." Amgen is a member of this organization.

  See their Guide to Biotechnology and Industry Statistics.

• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America:   "The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies." Amgen is a member of this organization.

  See the links to their Industry Profile 2002 and to Pharmaceutical Industry Primer 2001.

Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

The Foster Business Library reference collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in the center of the library's first floor. The reference works listed below are arranged according to call number and, since none of these books circulate, they should always be available--except when in use by a library user.
• Statistical abstract of the United States.
  Information about many industries as well as demographic information; check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are often a valuable source of additional information.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2001.
  Also available online.

  See index page 958 for many tables on Drugs and medicines industry, manufacturing.

• U.S. industry & trade outlook.
  Industry by industry overview of the U.S. economy, with numerous tables, charts, industry reviews, forecasts and analyses.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC101 .U543 2000.
  Also available online under Free Industry Overviews.

  See Chapter 11, page 11-13 for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals.

• Standard & Poor's industry surveys.
  This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries with a focus on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for each industry. Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources of additional industry information.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74 (Quarterly)

  See Biotechnology in volume one; see the forecast for this industry, in the front of this volume, on page 19. Amgen is one of the companies included in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of the industry survey.

• Industry studies.
  This excellent reference work provides essays, mostly by professors of economics, about 14 significant industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel, airline service, retail commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health insurance, motion pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and telecommunications.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.8 .I53 2002.

  See Pharmaceuticals on pages 96 to 117.

• Encyclopedia of global industries.
  Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and development information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.

  See Biotechnology, on pages 53 to 68, with two references to Amgen but none to Immunex.

• International directory of company histories.
  Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good way to learn more about the history of an industry. This set of more than forty volumes covers over 5,600 company histories worldwide, with each history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other references to that company in other company histories. There is also an index by industry.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57

  See Immunex in volume 14, pages 254 to 256, with an update in volume 50, pages 248 to 253. See Amgen in volume ten, pages 78 to 81, with an update in volume 30, pages 58 to 61.

• Mergent company archives.
  Part of the Mergent manuals series, this archive volume contains the final statistical record of over 2,700 companies that have merged, been acquired, gone backrupt or otherwise disappeared since 1996. Supplements cover companies that have disappeared after 2001.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2746.55 .U5 .M466 (July 2003 supplement)

  See Immunex on pages 291 to 292.

• HDMA industry profile and healthcare factbook.
  This spiral bound paperback, published by the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (formerly the National Wholesale Druggists' Association), provides a wealth of data about the drug, biotech, and related distribution industries, as well as copious health care and drug data, demographics, trends, etc.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9666.1 .N92 2002.

  See Amgen on pages 92, 94, 95, 98, and 129.

• Plunkett's biotech & genetics industry almanac.
  This new reference paperback provides statistics, trend, and company information about this industry, with tables, charts and company profiles.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9999 .B44 .P58 2003/2004.

  See Amgen on page 110, Immunex on page 290, and industry information in the first several chapters of this almanac.

• Mergent OTC industrial manual.
  This one-volume work covers over 3,000 companies traded over the counter on national stock exchanges, with extensive information about companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs, properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets for three and two years, respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4501 .M66 2002.

  See Amgen on pages 411 to 415.

• Mergent industry review.
  Statistical data on 3,000 companies in 137 industries, with ranking, key financial information, operating data and ratios.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M68 August 2003-January 2004.

  See Amgen in the industry review #075, Biotechnology, on pages 72 to 79.

This collection is located on the south side of the library, through the two pass-throughs to the Balmer basement. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

The Foster Business Library General Stacks collection contains 70,000 business-related books. These books may be found by searching the UW Libraries Catalog. The UW Libraries Catalog may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases or at the top of the left menu under FIND IT).

Look under Keywords for the company of your choice; limit by library Location to the Foster Business Library when doing a Keyword search for business topics. For help in searching the UW Libraries Catalog, click HELP.

Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated. Books that are already checked out to someone else, or books at the Bothell or Tacoma campus libraries (or elsewhere on the Seattle campus) may be reserved for your use and sent here to Foster by using the Request button on the upper menu. Books unavailable in any of the University of Washington Libraries may be available in the collections of Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, The Evergreen State College, Washington State University, or Western Washington University through the Cascade online catalog. To search Cascade, use the menu button for Repeat Search in Cascade. It can take from a few days to a week or more to obtain books from other libraries and to have them sent to Foster for you to pick up so use this option only if you can afford to wait.

A keyword search for Immunex retrieved just two records, one of them the company's annual reports. A keyword search for Amgen retrieved just two records, one for the company's annual reports, and a pamphlet, Amgen, published in 1998, in the Foster Business Library. There are also books in the UW Libraries with chapters in them about Amgen, including:

• From alchemy to IPO: the business of biotechnology   (2000)   See Part I, section 3
• The golden helix: inside biotech ventures   (1995)   See Chapter 7
• U.S.-Japan technology linkages in biotechnology: challenges for the 1990s   (1992)   See App A, Case III

A search for the subject Biotechnology Industries retrieved 155 records in the UW Libraries, of which 39 records are in the Foster Business Libraries' collections.

A keyword search for Biotechnology Mergers produced a list of four records, with two records in the Foster Business Library:

• Leading biotechnology alliances: right from the start.
• Managing frontiers in competitive intelligence.

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection, click here. For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click here. For an index to companies with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.

Corporate annual reports are also often available on company homepages. A good source for those annual reports is Hoovers Online on the Foster Business Library homepage, under Business Databases.

The collection includes annual reports for both Amgen, Inc. and Immunex, as well as over two dozen other companies in the Drugs industry.

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical articles through its full text article databases such as: ABI/Inform Global, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.

Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server. The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.

• ABI/Inform Global:

  This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box. Click on all of the databases.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.

  A search for Immunex, in all databases, produced a list of over 2,000 articles. A similar search for Immunex and Amgen and Merger produced a list of just over 100 articles, including some about Amgen's write-off of "3 billion worth of Immunex in-process research and development in one chunk rather than spreading it over several quarters" ("Biotech Giant Amgen Takes $2.6 Billion Loss on Costs of Immunex Merger," Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, October 24, 2002, page 1). Of the 119 articles generated by the search for this phrase, one article was in a scholarly journal; three, in magazines; 28, in trade publications; and 68, in newspapers.

  A search for CO(Amgen), in all databases, produced a list of over 1,500 articles. A search for CO(Amgen, Inc.) (with the added Inc.) produced a list of more than 900 articles. A company search for CO(Amgen, Inc.), looking for associated narrowing terms in this database, showed just one such term:  SUB(Pharmaceutical industry). A search for CO(Amgen Inc) and SUB(Pharmaceutical industry) produced a list of just over 100 articles. A search for CO(Amgen) and Mergers, also in all databases, produced a list of more than 150 articles while a search for CO(Amgen) and Mergers and Analysts produced 23 articles.

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find research tools on any business subject. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)      (Executive MBA Programs)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)      (Drug Industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)     (Amgen)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides