Company & Industry Information

Company & Industry Information subject guide

BankFocus

Business Source Ultimate

Capital IQ Legacy Version

Subject coverage: Companies, global financials, transactions, people, industries, and macroeconomic data
Size/scope: financial news, market insights, macroeconomic and company performance data. It provides comprehensive intelligence on more than 62,000 public companies and 4.4 million private firms. It covers financials, estimates, ownership, transactions, and professionals for 88,000 publicly listed companies covering 99.9% of market cap. It also provides industry wide financial averages for listed companies, as well as various macro-economic & commodity data variables
Type of content: company information & macro data
Level of access: full text on desktop and excel add in

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.

Any subscriber materials developed pursuant to clause 2.2 must give appropriate credit to S&P as the source of the excerpt and display the following copyright notice “Copyright © 201*, S&P Global Market Intelligence” they must also contain the following disclaimer notice: “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.”

Capital IQ PRO (including ESG Scores)

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Subject coverage: Companies, global financials, transactions, people, industries, and macroeconomic data
Size/scope: A more sophisticated platform to Capital IQ (Legacy), Capital IQ PRO provides detailed company profiles, including financial performance data, estimates, transactions, ownership, corporate structure, professionals, news, financial reports, and related industry averages. It provides deep intelligence on over 99.9% of the global market of public companies and, further, includes profiles for over twenty million private firms. Bournemouth University also subscribes to company-specific ESG scores (Environmental, Social, and Governance) for sustainability research, including over 11,500 firms
Type of content: company information & macro data
Level of access: full text on desktop and excel add in
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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.

Any subscriber materials developed pursuant to clause 2.2 must give appropriate credit to S&P as the source of the excerpt and display the following copyright notice “Copyright © 201*, S&P Global Market Intelligence” they must also contain the following disclaimer notice: “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.

Company Profiles

EBSCO Host Databases

Fame

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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.

FT.com

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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 may be required in which you will need to provide your University e-mail address.

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Mintel

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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

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Mintel Market Sizes

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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

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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

Passport (Euromonitor International)

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Note: On campus, you can access Passport as a guest user where you’ll be prompted to set up a Passport account. New users off-campus can only log-in using Open Athens where you’ll have to self-register the first time you visit. You must use your BU email account to register.

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.

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SportBusiness Professional

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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 are required. Details are available from the library area on Brightspace

TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot

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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)