the best to manage companies

[Pierre]

Hello,

I post this message to get your opinion on the best ways to manage companies
within Outlook.
I would like to create companies in Outlook, first to link contacts to, and
secondly to custom other items like products.

I hesitate creating a standard contact that in fact will be a company, but I
do not want to mix companies and contacts.
The second way is to build a custom form for companies, and in this case, I
do not know which base form using.

In both cases, I do not see how to link companies with their employees...

Any suggestions will be welcome. I'm not beginner to programming, but newbie
to outlook object model.

Thanks a lot.

Pierre.