Finding a Company Number

I wanted to pass along a small tip that I picked up working consumer and that I just used a couple days ago. Trying to contact a company can sometimes be difficult. You'd think company media types would have say, a phone number or email on their websites, but increasingly, that doesn't seem to be the case. I guess they are getting a lot of disgruntled yahoos calling. In any case, here's where Hoovers comes in. Hoovers.com is a website that has company info on it. All the major companies are on there and they generally have an address and non-toll free number that at least gets you to an administrative operator who can transfer you to the pr department.