Library: Mechanical Engineering: Company and industry information

Company and industry information

Company information
Market and industry research

We have a wide range of company, industry and market research databases for product development research and to help build your commercial awareness as an engineer. A selection of useful resources follows, for a full list see the Library webpages for Management.

Frost & Sullivan: Industry and Technology This link opens in a new window
Worldwide industrial markets and technological intelligence database. F&S provide full-text reports and commercial data, covering all areas of engineering, from aerospace to mobility, as well as allied areas e.g. healthcare.
D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
Provided by Dunn and Bradstreet, this is a user-friendly source of information on 120 million companies. IMPORTANT: Please note that business and news databases are licenced for education and research purposes only and cannot be used for University business.
It offers financial and executive details plus a description of activities and competitors of public, private, and government-run enterprises. Graphs and charts allow users to quickly view and understand company trends and compare with competitors. It includes up to 10 years of historical financials, downloadable family trees, SWOT analyses and business triggers and signals (to spot business opportunities.)

Hoovers User Guide

MarketLine This link opens in a new window
World-wide industry reports, news and analysis, company and country profiles, Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE and SWOT analyses.
Industry data & analysis:
• 6000+ Industry Profiles including Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
• Market values, volumes, and forecasts for over 120 industry sectors and 50 countries
Company data & analysis:
• 500,000+ Company Database
• 100,000+ Company Profiles
• 12,000 SWOT Analyses
• 450+ Case Studies highlight best and worst practice
• Company News and Financial Deals tracked and updated daily
Country & City data & analysis:
• Key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 200 countries and 1950 cities
• Country Profiles and City Profiles evaluating Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental Factors
Data & Tools
• Screen companies and build lists of potential business partners, clients, and investment targets from a database of over 500,000 companies
• Stay informed of market developments with over 600,000 Company News articles and 400,000 Financial Deals
Passport This link opens in a new window
Passport (from Euromonitor) provides concise profiles of leading companies and brand and market share data.
• Countries: profiles (demographic, economic, political) and business dynamics
reports including SWOT analyses.
• Companies: profiles, market share and brand share rankings.
• Lifestyle statistics: reports on 76 countries detailing consumer habits and lifestyles.
• Updated analysis: daily industry and country news.
• Statistics: international macro-economic and demographic data.
Orbis VL This link opens in a new window
Orbis VL provides information on more than 630,000 of the worlds largest public and private companies. It contains up to 30 years of detailed, standardised, financial accounts of all company types such as banks, insurance, corporates, listed, unlisted, active, or inactive companies from 140 countries. IMPORTANT: Please note that business and news databases are licenced for education and research purposes only and cannot be used for University business.
The information includes income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements, stock data and ratios. It is an ideal tool for comparison and analysis, including peer and statistical analyses and time series searching.
Nexis This link opens in a new window
Nexis provides access to international company information such as company directories, annual reports, market surveys, financial information and detailed company profiles for a range of countries and regions of the world.
News coverage includes the Financial Times from 1982 with a 30 day embargo. Note that the FT is not in the UK newspapers group search (filter) in the Power Search.
FAME This link opens in a new window
Contains up to 20 years of financial information on private and public companies in UK and Ireland, and includes profiles, directors, subsidiaries and detailed financials. IMPORTANT: Please note that business and news databases are licenced for education and research purposes only and cannot be used for University business.
Companies are ranked within peer groups and searchable by region and activity. Results are presented as graphs and downloadable to Excel.
Annual Reports This link opens in a new window
Provides free access to a large collection of annual reports for US companies. You are able to look for a company either by name, ticker symbol, sector, industry, exchange, or index.

We have a wide range of company, industry and market research databases for product development research and to help build your commercial awareness as an engineer. A selection of useful resources follows, for more specialist resources see the Library webpages for Management.

MarketLine This link opens in a new window
MarketLine is a global business resource covering 120 industry sectors, 500,000+companies, 200 countries, and 1950 cities. Analysis includes Five Forces (Industry), SWOT (Company), PESTLE/PEST (Country), and Case Studies.
Industry data & analysis:
• 6000+ Industry Profiles including Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
• Market values, volumes, and forecasts for over 120 industry sectors and 50 countries
Company data & analysis:
• 500,000+ Company Database
• 100,000+ Company Profiles
• 12,000 SWOT Analyses
• 450+ Case Studies highlight best and worst practice
• Company News and Financial Deals tracked and updated daily
Country & City data & analysis:
• Key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 200 countries and 1950 cities
• Country Profiles and City Profiles evaluating Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental Factors
Data & Tools
• Screen companies and build lists of potential business partners, clients, and investment targets from a database of over 500,000 companies
• Stay informed of market developments with over 600,000 Company News articles and 400,000 Financial Deals
Passport This link opens in a new window
(Not compatible with Microsoft Edge browser. Clear cookies in your browser if you have difficulty logging in.) Market reports for consumer, industrial and service sectors worldwide. It gives market data for consumer products and includes country profiles, statistics, consumer lifestyle, country and business environment (risk) reports.
• Countries: profiles (demographic, economic, political) and business dynamics
reports including SWOT analyses.
• Companies: profiles, market share and brand share rankings.
• Lifestyle statistics: reports on 76 countries detailing consumer habits and lifestyles.
• Updated analysis: daily industry and country news.
• Statistics: international macro-economic and demographic data.

Video: Passport - finding industrial ISIC reports (02:00)

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a Google-like search tool for market research and statistics with facts and figures easily displayed in charts and graphs. It provides access to more than one million statistics, ready to use in PPT, XLS and PNG format.
• Access to 1 million statistics - ready to use in PPT, XLS and PNG formats.
• PowerPoint dossiers on 3000 of the most searched-for topics such as online gaming, e-commerce, car sharing and organic food markets.
• Five year revenue forecasts on 42 countries and 400 industries.
• Industry reports (USA-focused) including SWOT analyses and forecasts.
Mintel This link opens in a new window
UK marketing intelligence database analysing market sizes and trends. Monitors and forecasts consumer behaviour/market developments. Includes global trends and insights.
UK subscriptions:
• Automotive
• Beauty and Personal
• Drink
• Food
• Food service
• Health and Wellbeing
• Lifestyles
• Media
• Retail: E-commerce
• Retail: Home
• Technology

Mintel Global Trends
Global consumer Databook and Insights (36 countries)
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 3,000 current reports on UK, Global, Australia, Canada, Chinese and New Zealand industries.
• Industry Research Reports – 25 page reports containing key statistics, forecasts, supply chain information, performance and outlook analysis, industry structure, products and markets, competitive landscape, operating strengths and weaknesses and analysis of external drivers.
• iExpert Summaries – 6 page snapshots condensing the integral elements from the industry reports into bite-sized paragraphs, graphics and tables.
• Risk Ratings Reports – 15 page reports covering the risk that the industry is facing over the next 18 months. Includes an assessment of the operating conditions (industry structure, revenue outlook and key drivers) for companies in the industry.
• Archive Industry Reports – Industry Research Reports dating back up to 7 years.

Videos (from IBISWorld)

EMIS This link opens in a new window
An emerging markets platform providing company, country and industry intelligence. It includes 9,000 local news sources, private/public company data, industry reports from global and local providers and complex analytical tools to monitor, screen and analyse trends, risks and forecasts.
Features reports from Euromonitor, Mintel, BMI, Economist Intelligence Unit, Marketline, S&P, Oxford Economics and D&B.
• Companies: 4.9 million private and public emerging market company profiles.
• Industries: EMIS covers 250 different industries throughout the emerging markets.
• Countries: Data covers 125 emerging markets.
• M&A: more than 139,000 M&A deals along with proprietary research, valuations and forecasts.

Supplier/product information

KOMPASS UK
Provides a free facility to search for business to business product and company information, including importers, exporters, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors.
Engineering 360
Engineering search and industrial supplier catalogue. Product and suppliers directory includes more than 122 million parts from suppliers across the industrial sector, searchable by specification.
IHS Engineer-it
Product and supplier information for design and manufacturing - process engineering and electronics.
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Information for engineering product suppliers, along with their address, phone number and website details.
Barbour Product Search
From the publishers of the print Barbour Compendium this is a fully searchable database of products and suppliers for the construction industries. It includes images, case studies, technical data, catalogues, news and project data.

Nexis This link opens in a new window
Covers international news including business, company and industry news. It gives full-text access to the international press, including major world newspapers and the trade/advertising press. IMPORTANT: Please note that business and news databases are licenced for education and research purposes only and cannot be used for University business.
News coverage includes the Financial Times from 1982 with a 30 day embargo. Note that the FT is not in the UK newspapers group search (filter) in the Power Search.

Nexis: how to find broadsheet newspapers
Explains how to find articles in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and The Times.
Video: Nexis - finding news on companies with Power Search (02:57)
Nexis: brief guide to searching for news with Power Search

PressReader This link opens in a new window
PressReader provides unlimited access to 7,000 digital newspapers and magazines from 120 countries in 60 languages.

PressReader This link opens in a new window
PressReader provides unlimited access to 7,000 digital newspapers and magazines from 120 countries in 60 languages.

Financial Times via ABI/Inform

Access to the Financial Times (without registration) from 1996 onwards with a 30 day embargo.

FT.com This link opens in a new window
The Financial Times from 2005 onwards
Access without embargo from 2005. You need to register to use FT.com - please use your University of Bath email address.

Access without embargo from 2005. You need to register to use FT.com - please use your University of Bath email address.

web link icon The independent: 1992 onwards.

Nexis This link opens in a new window
Covers international news including business, company and industry news. It gives full-text access to the international press, including major world newspapers and the trade/advertising press. IMPORTANT: Please note that business and news databases are licenced for education and research purposes only and cannot be used for University business.
News coverage includes the Financial Times from 1982 with a 30 day embargo. Note that the FT is not in the UK newspapers group search (filter) in the Power Search.

Nexis: how to find broadsheet newspapers
Explains how to find articles in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and The Times.