Standardised annual accounts (for up to 10 years) and management details of the top 330,000 public and private companies actively trading in 41 European countries.

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Provides detailed financial information, ratings, and ownership information for over 20,000 banks worldwide. Up to 8 years of information is included for each bank.

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Business and management research database, providing full text for more than 3,065 journals, including full text for more than 1,544 peer-reviewed business titles. Includes full text of Harvard Business Review since 1922. Updated daily.

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Over 17,000 Datamonitor and Life Science Analytics company profiles available via Business Source Complete. Worldwide coverage.

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Full text of market reports published on Consumer Packaged Goods, Energy, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Technology industries. Reports typically cover such issues as analyses of major markets, market dynamics, key players, plus forecasts for market size, growth and composition.

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Datastream provides current and historical global financial and economic information with over one billion data items from more than 175 countries and 60 markets spanning up to 40 years. Datastream contains key datasets from both developed and emerging markets - equities, stock and bond market indices, company accounts, international macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange rates, interest rates, futures, commodities and derivatives.

Access to Datastream Advance is restricted to Business School (BS) staff and researchers only or by appointment with the BS Subject Librarian. Access is via a dedicated PC in the Executive Business Centre Library i-floor - where Datastream user manuals are also available for reference - and nominated BS staff/research PCs. For further information and advice on the appropriateness of Datastream to your query, please email bslibteam@bournemouth.ac.uk.

Factiva provides full text access to 20,000+ sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. Coverage includes all major daily and business newspapers, primarily back to early 1990s. Sources also include both general business and industry publications such as The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Finanz & Wirtschaft, BusinessWeek, Far Eastern Economic Review, etc., plus industry-specific titles such as Advertising Age, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Computerworld, Retail Week and Travel Weekly.

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Financial accounts for up to the past 10 years and management details on actively trading UK companies (public and private) registered at Companies House, together with brief details of a further 2 million plus companies operating or dormant within the UK.

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Database of Euromonitor's portfolio of statistical and full text analysis. Organised into nine fully searchable databases covering country data; consumer lifestyles; consumer market sizes; forecasts; fmcg companies and brands; major market profiles; Euromonitor's market and retail research reports; and directory of marketing information sources.

Globalcast, Euromonitor's new podcast series brings you the latest trends and insight on industries, countries and consumers worldwide.

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In-depth profiles, including financials on over 11,000 US and c3,000 major non-US companies, derived from Hoover's hard copy directories.

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Published by Gale, the International Directory of Company Histories contains detailed historical entries on over 8500 of the world's largest and influential companies. To access this resource select the Gale Virtual Reference Library link following log on.
Coverage: 1988 - .
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Full text market and business intelligence reports. Features titles in 30 consumer, business and industry sectors for the UK. Useful features include SWOT Analysis, PEST Analysis, Market Forecasts and Competitor Analysis. Also gives access to Business Ratio reports which focus on financial performance of companies within a sector, eg Market Research Agencies.

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Full text of Mintel's monthly research journals covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press. Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only.

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Provides information on companies in the UK Retail Sector, including personnel, products, facts and figures, subsidiaries, news and turnover.

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Thomson Analytics provides detailed price and financial information for over 45,000 UK and International companies. Coverage includes full company details, key financial, profit and loss, balance sheet and ratio data, company news, share prices, currencies and market indices. The database will assist with the research, collation and analysis of a wide range of financial data which can be formulated in to graphs and charts or managed as individual portfolios. Features of the former Extel database such as the Extel cards and news have been incorporated in to this database.

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