QMULibGuides: Business School Guide: Industry, Markets, Company, Country Profiles, Stats & Data Resources

The Financial Times and The Economist

Financial Times archive (via Proquest Newsstand)

Includes articles from 31st May 1996 - present (with a 30 day delay)

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FT.com
FT.com (web site) delivers in-depth global news and financial information.
Self-registration is required.

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The Economist (archive via Proquest)

Includes full-text articles from 4th January 1992 (vol. 322, no. 7740) - present

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Academic Databases Containing Company Information

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News and newspapers

ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new window
ABI/Inform provides full-text and regularly updated finance and forecast reports for 40 countries, including all the G20 countries. All of these reports are available in full text and are updated every month. Use the 'Data and Reports' option to search market reports and data in ABI/Inform.
Additional information about ABI/Inform and how to use it is available
here

Browse ABI/Inform Collection
Browse for: Industry and Market Research reports; Commodity Reports; Company reports; Country reports (includes reports from Economist Intelligence Unit).

Hoovers Company Profiles and Snapshots are now part of Business Market Research Collection.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is the largest and most extensive statistics platform of its kind in the world, with access to over 1.5 million data sets (adding up to 500 extra per day) with revenue forecasts from 2015 to 2020 on over 400 industries. There are also many thousands of downloadable reports, studies and dossiers, Statista provides huge breadth of coverage of data relating to most subject areas. Statista has a team of over 140 statisticians, database experts, analysts and editors.
Business Market Research Collection - Proquest This link opens in a new window
This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources - Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Additional information about the Business Market Research Collection and how to use it is available
here

Browse Business Market Research Collection
Browse: Industry and Market research (Snapshot Series Industry Reports); Company Reports (Hoovers Company Records); Country Reports (OxResearch reports).

WARC - World Advertising Research Center (on campus) This link opens in a new window
WARC provides information and insight in the global marketing, advertising, media and research industries.
WARC - World Advertising Research Centre (off campus) This link opens in a new window
WARC is a provider of information and insight to the global marketing, advertising, media and research industries.

Canadian Newsstream - Proquest This link opens in a new window
This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
Global Breaking Newswire This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage from 58 newswires from around the world
International newsstream - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Includes UK national and regional newspapers.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

Statistics
Company information and annual reports

Scottish and UK data/statistics

British Social Attitudes The survey is a critical gauge of public opinion, and is used by the Government, journalists, opinion formers and academics.
Family Spending in the UK Statistical bulletins From the Office for National Statistics. An insight into the spending habits of UK households, broken down by household characteristics and types of spending.
Find open data
Data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies
Gov.uk - Statistics
NatCen - National Centre for Social Research Independent social research agency.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Open Data Scotland
A crowdsourced open data portal, aggregating open datasets across Scotland
ScotCen - Scottish Centre for Social Research Scottish arm of Britain's largest independent social research agency.
Scottish Government - Statistics
Scottish Social Attitudes Used by the Government, journalists, opinion formers and academics, Scottish Social Attitudes series measures and tracks changes in people's social, political and moral attitudes in Scotland.
Statistics.gov.scot
UK Data Service

World data/statistics

DataCite Commons
DataCite a leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data with a goal of helping the research community locate, identify, and cite research data with confidence. DataCite search gathers metadata for each DOI assigned to an object which is used for a large index of research data that can be queried directly to find data, obtain usage statistics and explore connections.
Data for Development
Alliance of Global South-based research organisations working to mobilise the knowledge needed to advance the use of data and digital technologies to address critical development challenges.
Eurostat
Google Datasets Search
Search relevant datasets from many repositories (some may be behind a paywalls) using keywords or simple phrases.
Google Finance
Use a keyword or phrase e.g. "share prices".
You can follow various company shares, search for stocks, EFTs, etc. compare markets on currencies, crypto, futures, see financial news.
Google Trends
For trending topics or how trends vary over time for products, people, research, companies, places, events, etc. In Trending Now explore trending terms by country. In Explore you can narrow by countries, region, categories, compare different search terms, narrow down to city or over time
IMF International Monetary Fund
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR hosts a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioural sciences. Most of the files are free to access.
OECD Country Profiles
Open Data Handbook
Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society
on the "what, why & how" of open data.
The Official Portal for European Data
United Nations Statistics Division The United Nations Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. They compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems. They facilitate the coordination of international statistical activities and support the functioning of the United Nations Statistical Commission as the apex entity of the global statistical system.
World Bank Free and open access to global development information and data.
The World Factbook
World and by country social and economic data
World Trade Organization
Yahoo Finance
Finance, markets, crypto, finance by industry and many more.

AnnualReports.com
Companies House
Find registered office address and date of incorporation, filing history, accounts, annual return, charges, current and resigned officers, document images, mortgage charge data, previous company names, insolvency information