Industry and market research

• Passport
  • Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. 
  • Search tips: to begin, enter industry or concise keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: eCommerce India), select "Analysis" tab for full industry reports; Or, go to "Consumers" section in the top bar to browse reports on consumer lifestyles, especially the Megatrends listed on the Lifestyles landing page. 
• 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.

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.
• India EIU Country Report (pdf)

 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.
• EMIS (See above)
• McKinsey: India
  • A collection of articles from McKinsey on India

Additional Resources

• ABI/ProQuest
  • Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc.  
• Statista 
  • Useful for: quick statistics on various topics such as bottled water sales in India, etc.

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