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.

D&B Hoovers
Provided by Dunn and Bradstreet, this is a user-friendly source of information on 107 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.)

Hoovers User Guide

MarketLine
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 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
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.

Video from Euromonitor: Getting started with Passport (10:16 sec)

Nexis
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.

Coverage includes a separate 25-year archive of The Financial Times (with a previous 30 day embargo).
Osiris
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.
FAME
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.
Annual Reports
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
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 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
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. (Not compatible with Microsoft Edge browser.)

• 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
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
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
IBISWorld
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.

Videos (from IBISWorld)

EMIS
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
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.

Coverage includes a separate 25-year archive of The Financial Times (with a previous 30 day embargo).

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)

Reuters Top News

Reuters Top News is available via Thomson One: a real-time global news service covering business, markets, politics and economics news tailored by industry and region. In Thomson One, choose 'market view' to open Reuters top News.

Thomson One only works with the Internet Explorer browser and it only functions fully in compatibility view mode. Access this mode as follows: go to Tools menu (see the cog) and then choose Compatibility View Settings. Internet explorer can be found via the Windows Start menu: scroll down to open the Windows Accessories folder.

Guide: How to switch Internet Explorer into compatibility mode

Financial Times via ABI/Inform

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

FT.com
The Financial Times from 2005 onwards

You need to register to use FT.com - please use your University of Bath email address.

web link icon The independent: 1992 onwards.