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Marketing: Company information
Useful subject databases
Company information can be found from a number of sources.
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowContains industry profiles, company profiles and market reports. These cover global industries including non-consumer areas such as oil and gas.
- Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowContains company profiles from Hoovers.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowContains industry and market research reports and company profiles. These cover global industries including non-consumer areas such as oil and gas.
- FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) This link opens in a new windowFAME contains financial data taken from a company's annual report, e,g. turnover, balance sheet, profit & loss account. It can also be used to create lists of companies that satisfy certain criteria, e.g. industry sector and location. FAME contains data relating to UK and Irish larger companies.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowIBISWorld contains market research reports and industry ratings from UK and China. It also has industry COVID-19 impact statements. This database covers a wide variety of industry sectors including, construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail.
- Mintel This link opens in a new windowA database of marketing research reports produced by Mintel. Included within the reports are profiles of companies that produce consumer goods. The focus is on the UK market, but there are also some reports relating to China.
- Passport Euromonitor (GMID) This link opens in a new windowContains market research information including profiles of companies and has global coverage.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowFind statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics worldwide.
- Companies HouseLegal entity where all UK public and private companies have to file their accounts. Reports can be ordered where information is not available on FAME or on a company's website. Be aware that limited companies are not obliged to provide extensive information unlike a public company.
Newspapers and other news outlets can be a good source of information about companies. You can find news on the sources below.
- Financial TimesThe Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.
The first time you login, you will be required to setup an individual account with the FT. Please use your Coventry University email address and choose a unique password. All subsequent logins to the database will require only your Coventry University username and password.
- Lexis+ (UK Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowContains a collection of UK and Irish newspapers, both national and local which can be used to search for news about companies.
Local newspapers are good for finding how companies impact on local population and environment.
Newspaper reports can be used to find events and other newsworthy items about companies, e.g. investments, mergers and takeovers, legal actions, people, new innovations etc. Newspaper reports are good for finding out about current activities of companies that may not feature in journal articles.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowIncludes trade journals and some newspapers, which provide information about companies.
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowIncluded in this database are wire feeds, newspapers and trade publications, which are a good source of company information.
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