Company Content

About Corporate Affiliations™

Corporate Affiliations™ is a dynamic and comprehensive tool to gain insight on thousands of top companies and connect to their decision-makers. The content is created and maintained by LexisNexis Business Data Group.

Highly skilled teams create and maintain proprietary business content. These teams use a mix of human interaction and technology platforms to ensure end-users receive accurate, complete and timely data.

These teams are located in New Providence, New Jersey (our headquarters) with strategic partners located in Chennai and Mumbai India.

Corporate Affiliations Product Attributes

• Nearly 200K global companies
• Parent Companies with >$10M annual revenue
• Our own written enhanced business descriptions appear for 8,400 priority companies
• 65K parent companies with 135K linked subsidiaries
• Over 750K unique executives (incl. directors) and titles
• 50K board members from all NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX traded companies
• Over 150K company brands with product descriptions
• Corporate hierarchies (corporate families)
• Competitor listings
• Alerts! about executive moves
• Specific company news (90 day news file)
• Specific company Merger & Acquisition news (MergerTrak™)
• Outside service firm relationships (e.g. legal, audit, ad agencies, transfer agents)
• Unique company identifier
• Twice weekly refresh

Corporate Affiliations Product Functionality

• Three search modes: quick, advanced, and inquire – a natural-language search powered by IBM® OmniFind™ technology.
• Download capability - directly to Excel, or to an ASCII file.

Corporate Affiliations Frequently Asked Questions

How do you obtain your data?

The information on companies and individuals is highly accurate as a result of our multi-faceted data maintenance strategy. We combine the latest technology gathering techniques and teams of highly-skilled analysts based in New Jersey, Georgia and India. This global approach enables Corporate Affiliations the ability to perform nearly 5,000 adds, updates, and deletes to our content each business day.

The latest in Web-extraction techniques are utilized to gather annual SEC government data (e.g. 10K’s) on publicly held companies within three days of filing. Annual financials, board members, executives and other data are extracted and filtered through internal edits and validations before entry into our database. These same techniques are used to extract key data from non-U.S. company annual reports. Additional data is mined to research corporate family tree information.

Over 550,000 highly-focused outbound phone campaigns are conducted yearly by our call center partners and internal teams to add, delete, modify and verify existing content.

What are the primary uses of Corporate Affiliations information?

• Sales — Discover cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
• Business Development — Identify potential strategic alliance opportunities.
• Marketing — Download contact lists based on your target criteria.
• Executive Recruiting — Find employment opportunities and the right contacts.
• Legal — Perform conflict of interest research.
• Finance — Determine spend and discount opportunities.
• Credit — Contact parent companies who can help with overdue bills.
• Research — Understand the organizational structure of a company.
• Fundraising — Use our corporate family data as leverage to find additional contributors.

Once you obtain the data how is the data updated and refreshed?

Our strategy calls for a comprehensive update on every record in our database at least once during the calendar year. Many receive multiple touches timed to data availability. Our Content Operations team makes updates to the Corporate Affiliations content daily and the web site is refreshed twice weekly for timely information.

Annual automated processes are used for data elements such as telephone numbers, area codes, URL’s and mailing addresses.

Extensive edits and validations at the analyst workstation level ensure errors are prevented before database entry. Data uploads from bulk processes undergo multiple checks prior to entry, and additional automated diagnostic reports scan the database for content that no longer meets timeliness requirements. Regular reports are run so updates can be made as soon as possible.

What information is available on each company record?

Parent and family member company records may include all or some of the following data:

What steps do you take to keep up with the dynamics of people and company information that takes place in today’s marketplace?

LexisNexis maintains a dedicated staff to monitor over 100 global news sources every business day for executive and board member changes, merger and acquisition activity, IPO’s and delistings. The largest and most significant worldwide companies are monitored using this process. 

The SEC.gov website is scoured daily for the latest public filings that may impact information our content. Direct company contact and web research is performed according to predetermined research schedules developed for maximum information availability.

Merger and acquisition activity is at an all time high — how do you keep up?

Corporate Affiliations has a dedicated team performing our exclusive MergerTrak™ process. Our MergerTrak feature let’s you search for both proposed and completed mergers that could affect your business. This process tracks and resolves mergers, spin-offs, and acquisitions from the announcement date to resolution and post-merger organizational changes.  Post-merger organizational reconciliation frequently takes an extended period of time.

For example: Cerberus Capital Management acquired Chrysler Group from DaimlerChrysler. Our team updated the company listing to show that Cerberus now owned Chrysler. However, extensive research is required to determine where the current subsidiaries fit in the new hierarchy, as well as tracking the executives who have been affected by the changes. This process may take a few weeks to a couple of months to complete.

What are the strengths of Corporate Affiliations data compared to the competition? They have many more individual company records in their database.

The primary focus of Corporate Affiliations is to provide customers with authoritative business intelligence on corporate families. Identify opportunities and expand your business using our current corporate linkage.

Our goal is and has been to capture companies with annual revenue over $10 million. The focus of Corporate Affiliations is not small business, but significant worldwide businesses that drive the world’s economy. Customers will find the individuals and companies they are searching for since the database covers nearly 200,000 of the most prominent parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates and divisions worldwide, and over 750,000 executives.

What are the different levels of company hierarchy?

Who should I contact if I want to update a company record in the database?

Companies who wish to add, update or correct their listings can contact us by mail to: Tanya Hurst, Senior Manager Operations, LexisNexis, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974, or calling (908) 464-6800, ext. 3527. E-Mail: content@lexisnexis.com

Database Inclusion criteria for U.S. public & private & international companies

U.S. Public Companies

The Corporate Affiliations public companies database contains listings for all major publicly traded companies with U.S. located headquarters traded on one of the three major U.S. exchanges: NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX. Also included are significant companies traded on smaller U.S. exchanges. Investment funds or companies with letter series stocks are not listed in the database. 

Subsidiaries for these publicly traded companies are included, whether or not they are located in the United States. There is no database revenue qualifier attached to a subsidiary company.  Also included are outside service firms attached to the parent companies. These are firms that perform specialized services such as accounting, legal, pension management etc.

There are approximately 6,000 U.S. public parent companies and 40,000 subsidiaries.

U.S. Private Companies

Corporate Affiliations lists privately held companies with U.S.-located headquarters or holding companies. Generally, U.S. based private companies must demonstrate revenue in excess of $10 million, 300 employees, or substantial assets to be included. 

Subsidiaries for these parent companies are included. Also included are outside service firms attached to the parent companies. These are firms that perform specialized services such as accounting, legal, or pension management, etc. 

Approximately 50,000 U.S. private parent companies and 25,000 subsidiaries are included.

International

When an ultimate parent company is located outside the United States, it is included in the international database. These would include both public and private companies.  Included are the parent companies and their subsidiaries, no matter where the subsidiaries are located. International companies listed generally have revenues in excess of US$10 million, in excess of 300 employee totals, or substantial assets/net worth.

There are approximately 11,000 international parents with nearly 60,000 related subsidiaries.

The ACT of Content Quality

ACT – Accuracy, Completeness and Timeliness. 

Accuracy

Delivering accurate content requires the use of people and technology.  Technology can confirm whether data is present or not, but cannot judge right or wrong.  People can make that call but are a labor intensive and expensive solution. A balance of both solutions is the best approach for ensuring accuracy. 

Completeness

The goal of an information provider is to provide comprehensive coverage of all data elements resident in their applications.  This does not mean that every available data field is complete but depends on whether the provided content meets the needs of the information consumers.  Every content provider should have internal programs in place to continuously look for gaps and close them.

Timeliness

There are few guidelines that govern this critical facet of content quality.  Depending on the category, data currentness may be minutes, as in breaking news headlines or 90 days after company year end for annual filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).  Private companies are not required to file many public-facing documents and therefore the timeliness of content is based on how well the information provider succeeds in contacting them.  Successfully meeting the challenges of providing timely information depends on how well sources are being monitored for change and responding as rapidly as possible.

Other Services/Contacts

What other related services are available?

• For information on the CD-ROM version of the database, Corporate Affiliations PLUS, please call 800-340-3244.
• For information on the eight volume print edition of the database, please call 800-340-3244.
• Mailing lists, compiled from information contained in the database, may be ordered from Lisa Slusher, DM2, 2000 Clearwater Drive, Oak Brook, IL 60523; telephone (800) 323-4958.
• Electronic versions of the database are available. Please email us or mail us at LexisNexis Electronic Sales, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974; telephone 800-340-3244 (press 2).
• Corporate Affiliations redistribution licenses are available; please email us or call us at 800-340-3244 (press 2).

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 13,000 employees.