Columbia University has access to the Infogroup’s Historical Business File via WRDS.

Infogroup gathers geographic location-related business and residential data from various public data sources, such as local yellow pages, credit card billing data, etc. The Infogroup database at WRDS contains two packages: Historical Business and Historical Residential, both of which largely focus on US sectors.

The Historical Business data starts in 1997, while Historical Residential dates back to 2006. The Historical Business data is a calendar year-end snapshot of local business data. It contains business identification, location, industry, corporation hierarchy, employment, sales, and other fields.

For more information about this dataset, please visit this page