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Answered By: Leslie Burmeister
Last Updated: May 08, 2024     Views: 455

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Findland to help me with FIELD Global Immersion?


A.

Industry and market research

  • Passport
    • Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. 
    • To begin, enter industry or keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: restaurants China).
    • Search tips: use concise keywords.  Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports; Go to "Consumers" section to brows reports on consumer lifestyles, or search: lifestyle China within the Consumers > lifestyles section.
  • EMIS
    • Useful for: emerging market information, including company info, news and niche industry reports.  Strong foreign language news component.
    • Search tips: At the top of the page under Region/Country, deselect all and re-select your GEO country.  Then enter industry or company keywords.  Can search in multiple languages.
  • Statista

Country information and data

  • Economist Intelligence Unit
    • Useful for: in-depth country information covering recent economic and political developments, risk and regulation, and the broad business environment.
    • Search tips: go to Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to consumer consumption, income, demographics, etc.
    • Finland EIU Country Report (One-click report)
  • Oxford Business Group Country Reports
    • Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc).  

 News

  • Factiva
    • Useful for: targeted news search on specific industries, companies or countries
    • Search tips: use News Pages to read today’s news from selected newspapers such as Wall Street Journal; use the Search Builder under the Search tab when conducting a news search within the database. It allows to limit a search by date, region, source, headline, etc.
  • ABI/ProQuest
    • Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc.
  • EMIS (See above)

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