Where to find data with employer and employer description?

[Jade_SAS]

Hi all,
I am working with one project to classify employers, I would like to find a dataset with all employers and employers’ description to match with my data. I wonder whether anyone here know a public data source including employers and employers’ description information, thank you!

Thanks,
Jade

[Jade_SAS]

Or any public data source with merchants and merchant descriptions , thank you!

[Reeza]

That costs $$$$ usually. 

You're essentially asking for a list of all companies, incorporated or not in a country - US I'm assuming?

Does that include every 7-11 and McDonalds, franchises separate from HQ? In every State and County?

SEC has this list, there will be others but usually we buy the data from a company called Dunn & Bradstreet. If you're affiliated with an academic institution I'd ask the librarian or check and see if you had access to WRDS or something similar for the US.

https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/4-460list.htm

Regarding classification, it depends on what you're trying to do....description will be text data so that will be an interesting exercise. The Dunn & Bradstreet data will have the NAICS code and many other business demographic data that help for clustering. 

[Jade_SAS]

Thank you Reeza!
Yes, I want the companies names with appropriate description as below:

EmployerName Description
7-11. Convenient store
McDonalds Fast food company
HQ. video games
Bank of America. Banking company
Mayo Clinic Medical
Harvard Education
Target. Retail corporation

I don’t have access to WRDS, Any public data that include the NAICS codes for all employers? Thank you!

[Reeza]

If you're doing this for research I'd reach out to the Bureau of Labor Statistics to see if they have a list. Not an American, but I know the Canadian Stats agency has one.
Corporations, not necessarily the only companies that hire but a good place to start, must register State by State so each State will have their own listings.

NY is available here:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/active-corporations-beginning-1800

Which is why this data is typically sold.....it's hard to get to and consolidate. Imagine 50 different data sets all storing addresses differently.....