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Mechanical Engineering: Company and industry information
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.
Provided by Dunn and Bradstreet, this is a user-friendly source of information on 120 million companies.
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.)
World-wide industry reports, news and analysis, company and country profiles, Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE and SWOT analyses.
Marketline includes these additional databases:
• City Statistics
Analyse and compare the world’s most important cities. Features comprehensive data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 3000 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, North America, and South and Central America.
• Company Prospector
Screen 102,959 companies and build lists of potential business partners, clients, and investment targets in industries and countries of interest.
• Company Report Generator
Generate fresh custom company reports featuring analytical text and charts which draw on MarketLine's company datasets. Example sections include company overview, history, SWOT analysis, M&A, partnerships and agreements, news and product information.
• Country Statistics
Conduct quick and easy comparative analysis of macroeconomic and industry drivers for over 200 countries. Features comprehensive data and forecasts including detailed coverage of consumer demographics, incomes, and expenditures. Key indicator forecasts include GDP, inflation, exchange rates, investment, trade, population, and labour market.
• Financial Deals Tracker
Track market activity with MarketLine's database of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity deals, venture finance deals, private placements, IPOs, and partnerships.
• Investment and Advisory Prospector
Identify advisory and investment firms operating in specific industries, and gain insight into the investment and inorganic strategy of companies.
• Market Data Analytics
A unique online information service providing comprehensive data across global food, drinks personal care household products, pet care, news and magazine and tobacco markets.
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.
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.
Contains up to 30 years of detailed, standardised, financial accounts and ratings of listed companies, banks and insurance companies from 140 countries.
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.
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.
Companies are ranked within peer groups and searchable by region and activity. Results are presented as graphs and downloadable to Excel.
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.
World-wide industry reports, news and analysis, company and country profiles, Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE and SWOT analyses.
Marketline includes these additional databases:
• City Statistics
Analyse and compare the world’s most important cities. Features comprehensive data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 3000 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, North America, and South and Central America.
• Company Prospector
Screen 102,959 companies and build lists of potential business partners, clients, and investment targets in industries and countries of interest.
• Company Report Generator
Generate fresh custom company reports featuring analytical text and charts which draw on MarketLine's company datasets. Example sections include company overview, history, SWOT analysis, M&A, partnerships and agreements, news and product information.
• Country Statistics
Conduct quick and easy comparative analysis of macroeconomic and industry drivers for over 200 countries. Features comprehensive data and forecasts including detailed coverage of consumer demographics, incomes, and expenditures. Key indicator forecasts include GDP, inflation, exchange rates, investment, trade, population, and labour market.
• Financial Deals Tracker
Track market activity with MarketLine's database of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity deals, venture finance deals, private placements, IPOs, and partnerships.
• Investment and Advisory Prospector
Identify advisory and investment firms operating in specific industries, and gain insight into the investment and inorganic strategy of companies.
• Market Data Analytics
A unique online information service providing comprehensive data across global food, drinks personal care household products, pet care, news and magazine and tobacco markets.
(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.
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.
UK marketing intelligence database analysing market sizes and trends. Monitors and forecasts consumer behaviour/market developments. Includes some China reports.
UK subscriptions:
• Automotive
• Beauty and Personal
• Drink
• Food
• Health and Wellbeing
• Media
• Retail: Home
• Technology
China subscriptions:
• Consumer Attitudes and Trends
• Retail
Provides access to over 1,700 current reports on UK, US, Global and Chinese 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.
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.
Provides a free facility to search for business to business product and company information, including importers, exporters, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors.
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.
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.
