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Company & Industry Information subject guide

BankFocus

>> Go to BankFocus

  • Subject coverage: detailed financial information, ratings, and ownership information
  • Size/scope: information for over 42,000 banks worldwide
  • Type of content: financial reports
  • Data range: Up to 5 years of information for listed banks and 3 years for unlisted.

Business Source Ultimate

>> Go to Business Source Ultimate

  • Subject coverage: business and management
  • Size/scope: over 45,000 sources
  • Type of content: academic journal articles and business trade titles
  • Level of access: Some full text available.

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Capital IQ

>> Go to Capital IQ

Note: A one off registration process is required in which you are required to provide your University e-mail address

  • Subject coverage: financial information
  • Size/scope: financial news, market insights and company performance data. It provides intelligence on more than 62,000 public companies and 4.4 million private firms. It covers financials for 88,000 publicly-listed companies
  • Type of content: company information
  • Level of access: full text.

Disclaimer: Reproduction of any information, data or material, including ratings (“Content”) in any form is prohibited except with the prior written permission of the relevant party.  Such party, its affiliates and suppliers (“Content Providers”) do not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, timeliness or availability of any Content and are not responsible for any errors or omissions (negligent or otherwise), regardless of the cause, or for the results obtained from the use of such Content.  In no event shall Content Providers be liable for any damages, costs, expenses, legal fees, or losses (including lost income or lost profit and opportunity costs) in connection with any use of the Content.  A reference to a particular investment or security, a rating or any observation concerning an investment that is part of the Content is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold such investment or security, does not address the suitability of an investment or security and should not be relied on as investment advice.  Credit ratings are statements of opinions and are not statements of fact.

The Case Centre

Registration guide (PDF 218kb)

  • Subject coverage: cases from European Business Schools
  • Type of content: case studies
  • Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.

Company Profiles

>> Go to Company Profiles

  • Subject coverage: Datamonitor and Life Science Analytics company profiles available via Business Source Complete. Worldwide coverage
  • Size/scope: over 17,000
  • Type of content: company profiles
  • Level of access: full text.

EBSCO Host Databases

>> Go to EBSCO Host Databases

This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.

Fame

>> Go to Fame

  • Subject coverage: financial accounts and management details on UK companies For financial accounts of bank and financial institutions, use BankFocus
  • Size/scope: 2 million plus companies
  • Type of content: accounts and company information
  • Data range: last 10 years
  • Level of access: full text

Note for off-campus use: To identify yourself type Bournemouth University in the search box or select Bournemouth University from the drop down list.

Eikon (formerly Datastream)

  • Subject coverage: financial and economic
  • Size/scope: over one billion data items from more than 175 countries and 60 markets spanning up to 40 years. Eikon 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 Eikon is available through AppsAnywhere. Go to - appsanywhere.bournemouth.ac.uk and log in with your normal BU login. The first time you access AppsAnywhere you will need to download it onto your device. If you experience technical issues using appsanywhere to access Eikon, please contact BU IT Services by phone on: (01202) 965515 or freephone 0808 196 2332. For further information and advice on the appropriateness of Eikon to your query, please email [email protected].

Username and password required. Details available from the library area in Brightspace.

FT.com

>> Go to FT.com

  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: the Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. In addition to the content appearing in the printed newspaper the online version gives access to personalised news alerts, specialist blogs and videos
  • Type of content: newspaper articles
  • Date range: 2006 to date
  • Level of access: full text available.

User guide PDF

Note: A one off registration process is required in which you are required to provide your University e-mail address. For continued access whilst a student or member of staff at Bournemouth University you are required to log in to FT.com using the link above once every 90 days

BU staff/student login required (OALA)

International Directory of Company Histories

>> Go to International Directory of Company Histories

  • Subject coverage: Company histories
  • Size/scope: entries for 8.500 companies
  • Type of content: reference article
  • Date range: 2004 to July 2016
  • Level of access: full text available.

Note for off-campus use: At the web site select the link Shibboleth users click here

Mintel

>> Go to Mintel

  • Subject coverage: For a full list of sectors, themes and demographics covered, click on the 'Category Overview' option when you access Mintel. Here's a shortlist of categories: Automotive; Beauty and Personal Care; Business to Business; Drinks; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health & Nutrition; Household; Marketing & Communications; Pet; Retail & Apparel; Technology & Media; Travel, Leisure & Entertainment
  • Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
  • Level of access: full text available.

Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only

>> Online Help

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Mintel Market Sizes

>> Go to Mintel Market Sizes

  • Subject coverage: Industries covered : Alcoholic Drinks; Beauty, Personal Goods & Toiletries; Food; Household / Home; Non-Alcoholic Drinks; Pharmaceuticals
  • Size/scope: Quantitative Database providing market sizes, segmentation, market share and socio economic data for 34 countries
  • Level of access: Market size data.

Note: Use of Mintel Market Sizes is restricted to academic use only and permits the  download or print of no more than fifty-five (55) Datasets per Session. It also permits an authorised user to include in any dissertation or thesis a combination of no more than five (5) each of the following: (a) up to twenty-five percent (25%) of a single Snapshots report and (b) a Dataset

Nexis Uni

>> Go to Nexis Uni

  • Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. It also includes journals, broadcasts, newswires, blogs, legal sources, and business/company information
  • Type of content: local, regional, national, and international newspapers, with some journals and other media
  • Level of access: full text.

Note: View the training videos in Nexis Uni Help to find out how to use the database effectively.

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Orbis Europe

>> Go to Orbis Europe​

  • Subject coverage: annual accounts and management details of the top public and private companies actively trading in 41 European countries
  • Size/ scope: covers 330,000 companies
  • Type of content: statistics, full financial reports, financial and management data
  • Date range: annual accounts for up to 10 years
  • Level of access: full text.

Passport (Euromonitor International)

>> Go to Passport

  • Subject coverage: online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world
  • Size/scope: 24 industry categories for 80 countries. Economy ander data for 210 consum countries
  • Type of content: marketing research reports
  • Level of access: full text.

>> Introduction to Passport video

SportBusiness Professional

>> Go to SportBusiness Professional

  • Subject coverage: sports, events, sectors and organisations
  • Type of content: growing collection of industry reports, magazine articles, news articles and videos
  • Date range: intelligence reports from the past decade. SportBusiness International issues since Jan 2013 to present. Industry news material dating back the past 10 years to present
  • Level of access: full text available.

Username and password required. Details available from the library area on Brightspace

TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot

>> Go to TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot

TGI Snapshot is Kantar Media’s newest Market and Consumer research tool and is a new and improved version of TGI SalesTab. 

TGI (Target Group Index) is the world's leading provider of single-source marketing and media surveys. Snapshot is a marketing research tool that allows users to easily analyse audience and consumer attitudes in relation to thousands of products and brands, as well as advertising medium.

  • Subject coverage: UK market research and demographic data from TGI Survey including 500 product areas and 4,000 brands
  • Type of content: market research and demographic data.

World Advertising Research Centre (WARC)

On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link

  • Subject coverage: Advertising
  • Size/scope: Information supplied by key professional organisations in the area of advertising including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), Admap, European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
  • Type of content: case studies, statistics, conference papers and full text of selected journals including the Journal of Advertising Research and ADMAP
  • Level of access: some full text available.

Note: The off-campus link above is the only off-campus access route for this service

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)

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