Database trial - PI Navigator

We have a trial to PI Navigator (from Perfect Information) until June 2011.

“PI Navigator is a financial and capital markets database providing access to over 15 million global company filings including annual reports, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), equity transactional documents (including Initial Public Offerings) and bond prospectuses. PI Navigator surfaces the value of the data buried within financial documents, providing the ability to significantly reduce the time taken when modelling company financials.”

Click here to access PI Navigator (you will need your University username and password if you are off-site). Check out the online tutorial with PI Navigator.

Please take a look and forward any feedback to Sara Goddard at s.goddard@westminster.ac.uk

Mediatel access

Accessing Mediatel is now much easier.  To get access on and off campus: go to Library Search, in the "books, journals & more" tab search for Mediatel, click on the online access button and follow the link.  

Mediatel is an excellent resource for UK media intelligence. It includes daily news as well as an in-depth data archive from major research sources.  Use it to find media information such as press circulation figures and advert rates, demographic reports, TV viewing figures and sponsorship information, online traffic data and revenue reports, radio audience figures, box office figures, and media trends and consumer behaviour.

World Cup fever and the sound of Vuvuzelas

The World Cup is now in full swing in South Africa. We have heard a lot about (and from) the Vuvuzelas but apart from making the drone of the Vuvuzela (in)famous what impact will the World Cup have on South Africa both commerically and socially?

Tourism is set to increase after the slow growth witnessed in previous years. Global Market Information Database (GMID) has a report on Travel and Tourism in South Africa which looks at the impact of the World Cup and its future sustainability. From GMID you can also get statistical and demographic information on the country as well as consumer lifestyle reports. Find the South Africa country page by locating it from the 'geographies' tab.

The government have invested heavily in public transport infrastructure, which fans are being urged to use amidst stories of grid-locked roads. GMID has a consumer report related to transport which gives details about South Africa's transport infrastructure and spending in previous years.

EIU Viewswire is a good source of the latest political and economic news and analysis. From the first page of the database choose South Africa from the left-hand country/region drop-down menu. Click on "1click report" from the South Africa page to get a full report including a ten year economic outlook.

The database Emerging Markets gives details of South Africa's consumer price index, top companies, top industries and the latest analysis/research. From the first page of the database click on South Africa in the right hand menu, then click on the home tab to get to the country outlook homepage.

Find the databases GMID, EIU Viewswire and Emerging Markets all on InfoLinX. When you have read all that sit back and enjoy the tournament!!

Photo credit: AfricanGoals2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/50989081@N07/ CC BY-NC 2.0

Featured database

Business Insights provides market research reports focusing on 5 global industry areas:

• consumer goods
• energy
• finance
• healthcare
• technology

It also includes Access Asia, consisting of detailed industry and consumer market reports, company profiles, biographies and Asian country profiles.

You can access Business Insights via infoLinX. You will need your University password to login if you are off-campus.

Featured database

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.

Topical pick: sweet like chocolate

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. 

And that's just the start.....

Featured database

Creative Club is the UK’s largest ad archive, hosting over 1.5 million multimedia advertisements. You can search across all ads by company or brand back to 1997. Updated daily, it covers all media and includes full spend data, media schedules and, through its Adsnaps facility, downloadable one page reports on a specific company.

You can access this database via Library Search.