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Euromonitor are inviting students to a free webinar on Global Retailing in 2010. It will take place on the 25th March at 11am EST, 3pm GMT. All attendees will get the chance to examine the dynamics of changing shopping patterns. The webinar will examine grocery, non-grocery and non-store retailing, identify changing consumer spending patterns, and their impact in these sectors.
Register here to join the live webinar with question and answer session featuring Euromonitor International's global research team.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Biz/ed Premier Don't forget you can access 25 core business e-books via Biz/ed Premier. It also includes research articles and exercises.
Titles available include the latest editions of John Martin's Organizational behavior and management, and Gerald Cole's Management theory and practice.
You can access Biz/ed Premier directly using the links below, or look for specific titles by doing an e-book search on the library catalogue. Login here if you are on campus
(You will need your Athens password to login if you are off campus)
Monday, 1 March 2010
City Business Library
The City Business Library has moved to Guildhall, their new address is Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH. The City Business Library is a public library with a good collection of business reference sources, including market research reports.
They also arrange a number of public events - on 3rd March tax adviser Chris Seth of HRMC is running a course 'Setting up a limited company', then on the 4th March there is a Business Link workshop on 'Website Optimization and E-Marketing'.
EIU Viewswire is a daily business intelligence resource from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covering 203 countries it highlights important economic, political and market developments, provides analysis and forecasts future developments. It is updated daily with up to 200 new articles per day. Access EIU Viewswire via InfoLinX at www.westminster.ac.uk/infoLinX
You can do a general search or you can search for information and data by country. Selecting a country from the drop-down menu will take you directly to the chosen country’s homepage where you can access the latest information, analysis and forecasts for that country. You can open a full country report by clicking on the 1-click report logo on the country’s homepage.
There is also a new interactive feature called data tool which allows you to compare and download core economic data for 150 key countries. Open data tool and click on the help tab to view a tutorial to guide you through how to use it.
Photo by Sifu Renka on Flickr.com used under the creative commons license
According to this report from the BBC life is looking sweet for chocolate-maker Thorntons as they have reported a rise in profits. The sale of Cadbury to Kraft foods has also left chocolate (melting) in the spotlight recently. If you are interested in this hot topic, there is plenty of research to be done: ~Find out about the UK chocolate market, including its size, share and forecast from the Mintel report 'Chocolate confectionery- UK- April 2008', which includes a new market re-forecast. ~Get a company report for Thorntons PLC on the financial database Fame ~Find out how much UK households spend on confectionery from the latest Family Spending report from the National Statistics. ~Borrow the book "Cadbury’s purple reign : the story behind chocolate’s best-loved brand" by John Bradley from Marylebone library. ~Explore Cadbury's advertising techniques by viewing memorable ads such as the creme egg ads via the ad archive database Creative Club ~Research how the Kraft-Cadbury tale out played out in newspapers and journals by searching the databases Business Source Complete and Factiva for articles.
It already seems like a lifetime since Christmas but how did retailers fare over the Christmas period? Mintel have just released a webinar presentation on just this topic, entitled 'False Dawn'. To find it log into Mintel via InfoLinX, select the 'what's hot' tab and click on 'Economy in Crisis'. This also links to related reports such as 'Christmas shopping habits -UK- January 2010'.
Harvard Business Publishing have a YouTube channel which has a wide range of videos on various business and management related topics. See: http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardBusiness In this video the Chairman and CEO of Cisco systems discusses teamwork and collaboration.
