As with personal names, business and organization names that are hyphenated are indexed as one unit . Ignore any punctuation marks that appear in business and organization names.
Punctuation marks include the apostrophe (‘), colon (:), comma(,), dash(-), diagonal (/), exclamation point (!), hyphen (-), parenthesis ( ), period (.), question mark (?), quotation marks (“), and semicolon (;).
| Name | Indexed Name |
| Chapman-Trickle Transmissions | ChapmanTrickle Transmissions |
| Cheer! Home-Team Sportswear | Cheer HomeTeam Sportswear |
| “Chucky's” Chunky Bar-B-Q | Chuckys Chunky BarBQ |
| Glencoe/McGraw-Hill | GlencoeMcGrawHill |
| Guess What? BargainStore | Guess What BargainStore |