Cranfield Libraries: Business and management: Top recommended resources

Top recommended resources

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Mintel Reports This link opens in a new window
Mintel is the UK's leading source of consumer related marketing intelligence information.
FAME This link opens in a new window
A financial information database of UK and Irish companies updated daily with up to 10 years of data. Search by any of 300 criteria including geographic location, SIC code or activity description, number of employees, etc. Display or print data in a variety of customisable formats or export to other applications such as excel spreadsheets. A Peer Analysis and Statistical Analysis option allows you to analyse the data further.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Global market research service and international consumer lifestyles. A source of in-depth statistics for 205 countries, including historical data and future forecasting. International business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Includes market research reports, country profiles, company market share and brand share rankings published by Euromonitor. Coverage: 1977 - current (+ forecasts).
Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
Financial and market data covering publicly traded companies. Includes access to Compustat data (fundamental financial and market information on both active and inactive companies, indices and industries for North America companies back to 1962) and investment research reports (also known as broker or analyst reports) which can help in the understanding of the investment decisions made by companies and industries.

To register for on/off-site access: Select the link to Capital IQ, open the homepage, click on "New User?" and use your Cranfield email address to register for an account.
OECD Reports This link opens in a new window
Read and download the books, reports and data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development covering 80 countries and 17 industry-themed collections.
UK Data Service This link opens in a new window
The UK's largest collection of social research data, providing access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, cross-national surveys, census data, international macrodata, business microdata and qualitative studies.It has been formed by the merger of four established data services, including ESDS to which we previously subscribed.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Dow Jones service covering over 10,000 global press sources including over 2,000 newspapers and 4,000 trade publications. Also an excellent source of company information and financials. Full text: variable, up to 30 years archive - current.
Please note: as part of our licence terms no text and data mining is permitted within Factiva and downloading is restricted to what you can physically read at one time.