Company and Industry Data

Tips

Read the letter to shareholders from the CEO published in the annual report.

Look for the MD&A - Management's Discussion and Analysis in the 10K report or annual report.

Search NAICS 2007 [6] to get the NAICS code for an industry.

Canadian

• FP Advisor [7]
• Blue Book of Canadian Business  [8]
• SEDAR  [9]Links to OSC to get 10k and other official filings.
• Canadian Industry Statistics [10] (Industry Canada)
• TSX-E Review [11]

Global (includes Canadian data)

• Bloomberg [12]  Access limited to a single workstation in library.  See our help guides [13] for instructions and tips.  
• Capital IQ [14]  Access limited to a single workstation in the library and computer labs in the Sprott School of Business.
• Mergent Online [15]
• EDGAR  [16]Securities Exchange Commission filings
• Factiva [17]
• GMID [18]
• Subject Guide -  Patents and Standards [19]
• Almanac of business and industry financial ratios
• REF HF5681.R25T68 [20]

The following sources provide industry profiles and reports

• Business Source Complete [21] - search your topic, product, company or industry.  Under Refine your results choose Industry Overview and Industry Profile.
• Mergent Online [15] - when connected, select the Report Search tab from the menu.   Select industry of interest and then geographical region.  
• Factiva [17] - mouse over Companies/Markets from menu bar at top of page, select Industry.   Select industry from the list provided.  Published profiles are found under Analysis and Profiles from menu on left.
• GMID [18] - By selecting Search from the menu tab, you may choose any industry or industries and narrow by country or countries in one search.   Tip - choose the industry plus specific parts of industry as there is often more than one industry profile.  Also choose the Countries & Consumers tab to find informationl on selected countries.
• Conference Board of Canada e-Library [22] - Browse by topic -> Industry Sector Economics for industry profiles or enter industry name in the search box.
• HighBeam Business: Industry Reports [23]    Free industry reports from The Gale Group on US industries. 

Ownership

•Who owns Whom: North and South America REF HG 4538.W42323
•Who owns Whom: Continental Europe REF HG 4132.Z5W5
 

Use online resouces to see list of subsidaries:

• Bloomberg [12]
  Access limited to a single workstation in library.  See our help guides [13] for instructions and tips.  
• Capital IQ [14]
  Access limited to a single workstation in the library and computer labs in the Sprott School of Business.
• Mergent Online [15]
• Factiva [17]

Scholarly Journals, Magazines and Newspaper Articles

Magazines and newspapers are very useful for up to date information on events, countries, companies, industries.   Can you tell the difference between magazines or popular journals and scholarly journals? [24]

Tips for Newspaper Searching [25]

Use business magazines and newspapers for current information:

Business Week [26]
Forbes [27]
Fortune [28]
The Economist [29]
Financial Times [30]
Wall Street Journal [31]
Financial Times [30]  ( London )
The Globe and Mail [32]
National Post Online [33]Includes the Financial Post [34]

Current awareness monitoring service
Roubini Global Economics [35]

Use the following indexes to search newspapers, magazines and journals by topic:

Business Source Complete [21]
CBCA Complete [36]
Factiva [37]- excellent source from global business
LexisNexis Academic News [38]
 

Socio-Cultural Data

GMID [18]

From the tool bar at the top of the page, select:
> countries & consumers
       > consumer trends and lifestyles

Under Consumer Lifestyles select the country of interest from the drop down menu and click "go".
     On left side, look for relevant or interesting reports...

Technological Environment

From the tool bar at the top of the page, select:
    > countries & consumers
         > Technology, Communications and Media
               >choose country under Country Briefings for report
               >explore View Top Countries by category... both historical and forecast
                             >internet subscribers (by country) etc.                           

Explore Latest Research
         > The New Industrial Revolution - looks at the new manufacturing trend 'nearshoring'

Exlpore Strategy Briefings
        >  Power to the Consumer: How Web Technology Is Influencing Behaviour
        > The Global Rise of Social Networks: Brave New World or the Same Old Thing?

Search for articles in trade journals, newspapers and scholarly titles on your topic using online databases.  Many databases will have a button that allows you to limit your search to scholarly or non-scholarly materials.

Examples of trade and popular titles are:

• Automotive News [39] (trade journal indexed in BSC)
• Informationweek [40]

Use Boolean Operators and Truncation to formulate your search statement:

      internet sales and (technol* or innovation*) finds the article in BSC
             Tweet Me, Friend Me, Make Me Buy.  Harvard Business Review; Jul/Aug2012, Vol. 90 Issue 7/8, p88-93, 6p.

Recommended databases:

• Applied Science and Technology  [41] excellent source for new technologies
• Business Source Complete [42]  Allows segmentation of results by type of resource.  Do a search on your product, company or industry. 
• CBCA [36]  provides full text to Canadian business journals and magazines.
• Ei Engineering Village [43]
• Factiva [37]   provides access to global newspapers, trade journals plus scholarly and non-scholarly journals.  Full-text of the Globe and Mail and the Wall Street Journal are found here.

• Industry Week [44]
• Patents and Standards [45] - help guide to information

Ecological Environment

World Resource Institute [46]

Economic & Political Environments

Government sources:

DataGov [47] Governance indicators from key public databases consolidated for all countries in the world.

Human development report [48]
UN1 D .H72 (Latest edition in MRR) Includes economic, demographic, social, labour and gender statistics.

Also see the Subject Guide - Government Statistics [49]

Non-Government sources:

EIU Economist Intelligence Unit [50]  
Provides excellent coverage in 2 sections.  Country reports: provides information on the political structure, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. Country profiles: outline a country’s economic and political status and background. They give an annual perspective on the long-term political and social issues affecting each country, as well as statistical tables providing a five-year run of data.

World competitiveness yearbook [51](Available on campus only)

Europa World Plus [52]
Online version of the Europa world year book and the nine-volume Regional surveys of the world series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

globalEDGE [53]  Site from Michigan State University providing country and industry profiles.

International Business Climate

    Doing Business [54]
   Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies. Each economy is ranked according to 10 sets of indicators. These are combined into an overall "ease of doing business" ranking

    Enterprise Surveys    [55]
   Provides the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies.

    Worldwide Governance Indicators [56]
   Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 213 economies over the period 1996–2009, for six dimensions of governance

   Data from Doing Business, Enterprise Surveys and Worldwide Governance Indicators appear in the World dataBank [57]

Trade

World Trade Indicators [58] (World Bank) - particularly the Country Briefs and the Trade at a Glance Tables [59]
Direction of Trade Statistics [60] - is available in the IMF E-Library database (exports and imports by country and by regions/groups)
International Trade and Tariff Data [61] (WTO) - see its Statistics Database [62] with links to Trade Profiles, Tariff Profiles and Service Profiles - The WTO also publishes the World Trade Report [63] and International Trade Statistics [64]
Trade [65](OECD)
UN COMTRADE [66] - annual import and export statistics for 160 countries - value and quantity for each commodity broken down by trading partner
UNCTADSTAT [67] and UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011 [68]
Trade Classifications can be useful when using the statistical databases:
     H.S. Nomenclature [69] (World Customs Organization)
     Standard International Trade Classification [70]

Foreign Direct Investment - Coordinated Direct Investment Survey [71] (IMF) and the World Investment Report [72] (UNCTAD)
Migration and Remittances - Migration and Remittances [73] (World Bank), Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 [74], International Organization for Migration [75]

Writing & Citing

Search the Library Catalogue by Subject to find books on writing business reports.

•    English language - Business English [76]  
•    Business report writing [77]
•   Business writing [78]
•    Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. [79]
•    Technical writing [80]
   

Others aids for writing include

• Avoid Plagiarism [81]
• Write a book review [82](Queen's University)
• Write a literature review [83] (Portland State University)
• RefWorks [84] is an online research management and writing tool that is designed to help students and researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.  SET UP AN ACCOUNT / LOGIN [85]

Useful titles

• Doing honest work in college : how to prepare citations, avoid plagiarism, and achieve real academic success [86]
  REF PN171.F56 L56 2008
• Student guide to research in the digital age : how to locate and evaluate information sources [87]
  ZA3075 .S74 2006
•  AMA handbook of business writing [88]
•  Wall Street Journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting data, facts and figures [89]

Citation Help

• Citation Guide 2011–12 ACADEMIC YEAR [90] Excellent guide to citing business sources in Chicago Style from Harvard Business School. 
• The Chicago Manual of Style [91]
• Citing Data & Statistics [92]
• Paper Writing Guidelines from Sprott [93]