Databases
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- Sample Business Plans
- Competitors & Customers
- Target Markets
- Industry Profiles
- Finances
- Running a Company
- Scholarly Articles
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- Best Practices
- Business & Company Resource Center
- Business Insights
- Business Source Premier (Ebsco)
- Corporate Affilations
- DemographicsNow
- Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
- EIU Country Commerce
- Euromonitor (GMID)
- General OneFile
- Google Scholar
- Hoover's (via LexisNexis Academic)
- IBIS
- LexisNexis Academic
- MarketLine (Datamonitor)
- Mergent Horizon
- Mintel
- Morningstar
- Osiris
- ReferenceUSA
- S&P NetAdvantage
- SimplyMap
- Uniworld
- Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest)
Quick list :
Business Ideas & Opportunities
- Provides articles from over 8,200 journals, trade magazines, and newspapers.
- Also includes Datamonitor company and industry reports, country analysis, and more.
- More info
- Provides articles from over over 10,000 journals, magazines, and news wires.
- Very useful for articles about specific markets and industries.
- More info
- Provides articles from the WSJ going back to 1982.
- Provides detailed reports on over 720 U.S. industries.
- Each report includes trends, statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more.
- Most IBIS reports are updated three or four times a year.
- More info
Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides market & consumer research reports.
- International in scope, but with emphasis on the U.S. and Europe.
- Most of the reports covers market drivers, market share, size, structure, segmentation, trends, consumer expenditure and spending patterns, psychographics, forecasts, and company and brand profiles.
- More info
Sample Business Plans
- Provides the full text of several hundred sample business plans.
- Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Competitors & Business-to-Business Customers
- Provides descriptions of 14 million U.S. companies (the U.S. Businesses search).
- Also covers 4.6 million international companies (the International Businesses search, which leads to OneSource Global.
- More info
Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides descriptions of 445,000 US and international companies.
- More info
MarketLine Business Information Center (Datamonitor)
- Provides 10,000 detailed company profiles, many including a SWOT analysis.
- Covers companies from around the world.
- More info
Hoover's Company Records (via LexisNexis Academic)
- Look for the Hoover's link in the "Business Description" section of LexisNexis' company profiles.
- Hoovers provides several thousand detailed company profiles.
- More info
More private company and public company databases are available.
Target Markets
Reports & Data
Mintel Market Research Reports
- Provides market & consumer research reports.
- International in scope, but with emphasis on the U.S. and Europe.
- Most of the reports covers market drivers, market share, size, structure, segmentation, trends, consumer expenditure and spending patterns, psychographics, forecasts, and company and brand profiles.
- More info
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides market reports and statistics on countries, companies, markets, and consumers
- Covers over 200 countries.
- The reports are particularly useful for clothing, retailing, food, drink, consumer electronics, toys, travel, and personal care products.
- Video on getting started with GMID
- More info
- Provides market research reports and forecasts.
- Covers five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
- More info
Detailed Data Only
- Provides data on population, income, housing, consumer spending, and more.
- Covers census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, urban areas, counties, and states, as well as custom radiuses.
- Areas can be compared and ranked.
- Provide tables, graphs, pie charts, and maps, which can be can be downloaded into Excel, Word, or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- More info
SimplyMap (10 concurrent users)
- A web-based mapping database for developing thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
- Each user accesses SimplyMap through a "personal workspace"; you will need to create an account the first time you use the database.
- Covers census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States.
- Includes Mediamark Research (MRI) data, covering usage and consumption for thousands of products, including brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more.
- Data can be exported and maps can be printed.
- Video on getting started with SimplyMap
- More info
American FactFinder, U.S. Census Bureau
- The Census' search engine for population, housing, and economic data.
- Search by state, city, county, or zip code.
- Covers the 2000 Census, American Community Survey (annual data), the Economic Census, and more.
- Statistical Warehouse and SimplyMap provide more search, ranking, and/or mapping options.
Business Decisions (Greensboro Public Library database)
- Available if you have a Greensboro Public Library card.
- Covers Guilford County.
- Provides demographics, consumer spending, and market segmentation profiles within Guilford County as data tables and maps.
- Similar to DemographicsNow and SimplyMap, but also provides its own proprietary "Tapestry" consumer market segmentation system (examples: "Laptops and Lattes," "Prosperous Empty Nesters;" there are 63 others).
Industry Profiles
- Provides detailed reports on over 720 U.S. industries.
- Each report includes trends, statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more.
- Most IBIS reports are updated three or four times a year.
- More info
- Provides S&P Industry Surveys, which include analysis, descriptions, and data on 52 industries.
- Also provides Global Industry Surveys for over 20 industries in Europe and Asia.
- Updated twice a year.
- More info
Business & Company Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- A "one-stop shopping" database for company and business research.
- Provides overviews of over 1,000 U.S. and global industries.
- More info
- Provides research reports and forecasts for five industries: e-commerce and technology, consumer goods, energy, finance, and healthcare.
- More info
MarketLine Business Information Center (Datamonitor)
- Provides 2,000 concise industry profiles, international in scope.
- More info
Finances
Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios
- Provides 14 financial ratios for 800 products and services, arranged by SIC code.
- Data can be exported into Excel.
- More info
RMA Annual Statement Studies in OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Provides the RMA Industry Norms in PDF format
- To find the RMA link in OneSource Global, look up an industry.
- More info
Manufacturing & Distribution USA 2009 (5th edition)
- Provides statistics on 460 industries, listed by NAICS codes.
- The statistics include the number of establishments, employment, wages, production, selected ratios, leading companies, materials consumed, product share, and industry data by state.
- This is an ebook from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Provides detailed reports on over 720 U.S. industries.
- Each report includes trends, statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more.
- Most IBIS reports are updated three or four times a year.
- More info
Census Business & Industry Reports
- Portal for all Census research on economic aspects, most based on NAICS codes. Includes:
- County Business Patterns
- Provides number of establishments and payroll size for a geographical area.
- Covers states, counties, zip codes, and metro areas.
- Retail & Wholesale Trade
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on sales, inventories, purchases, expenses, etc.
- More detailed data is available from the Economic Census (see below).
- Annual Survey of Manufactures
- Covers employment, payroll, value added, cost of materials consumed, value of shipments, etc.
- More detailed data is available from the Economic Census (see below).
- Conducted every five years (years ending in -2 and -7).
- Provides data from the U.S. to cities from 2 to 6-digit NAICS codes.
- Covers statistics like:
- number of establishments, sales, payroll, and paid employees
- sales and payroll ratios
- value of shipments by industry and detailed product
- cost of materials
- retail sales by square foot
- product line sales (product mix data)
- sales size by firms
- concentration by largest firms
- sales by class of customer
- and other industry-specific data.
Running a Company
- Provides summaries (often quite detailed) of best practice research conducted for major corporations.
- Covers business operations, customer service, human resources, e-commerce, sales and marketing, and knowledge management.
- More info
- Provides articles from over 8,200 journals, trade magazines, and newspapers.
- Also includes Datamonitor company and industry reports, country analysis, and more.
- More info
- Provides over 2,000 management ebooks.
- Also includes a Reference Center providing business encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- More info
Management & Leadership Encyclopedias from Gale/Sage
- Provides 7 encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Management, Encyclopedia of Leadership, and the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
- Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Scholarly Articles
- Provides articles from UNCG faculty, as well as recent theses and dissertations.
- More info
- Provides articles from over 8,200 journals, trade magazines, and newspapers.
- More info
- Covers ejournal websites, institutional and disciplinary repositories, and books.
- Provides links to Journal Finder. (From off-campus, select "Scholar Preferences", search for "UNCG", select all the options, and "Save Preferences.")
- On-campus users will often get straight to the fulltext, if we subscribe to that ejounal.
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