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
  • Useful for: country specific data using Statista's Consumer Market Outlook, Digital Market Outlook, and individual country reports. Some markets not covered for every country. 
  • Search tips: select a specific market then narrow region to relevant GEO country.

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.
  • Vietnam EIU Country Report (PDF)
• 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.

• EMIS (See above)

Additional Resources:

• ABI/ProQuest
  • Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc.  

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