LibGuides: Accounting, Banking, Economics & Finance: Company, industry, economics, emerging markets cases, equities and statistics e-resources

Country research, company, Industry, consumer markets

Note: It is not possible to find information from each of the below listed resources via a Library catalogue search. Some of the company, industry, market research and country information databases are provided by commercial entities. You need to login to each individual resource.
Business Source Complete is the exception as company and industry searches can be found via a Library catalogue search. Ask your Librarian for help to get the best research from these subscribed resources.

On the list below these are: FAME, Mintel, Euromonitor Passport, Gartner, Statista and UK Data Services.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides company information, some SWOT analysis, market share of major companies including industry and country information.
Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review from 1922. Some content from Marketline on company and industry reports including Porter's five forces. There are country reports from different publishers.
Fame: Company Information This link opens in a new window
UK & Ireland company information includes: contact information, activity details, ratios, credit score, security and price information, names of bankers and auditors, details of holdings and subsidiaries, names of current and previous directors, heads of departments, and shareholders, and scans of the company’s latest annual reports
Gartner Campus Access This link opens in a new window
Web site provides access to the research and advisory firm’s information technology including AI news, research reports, and business and market analysis, and includes product descriptions and comparisons, information on trends.
Mintel This link opens in a new window
Mintel offers access to a range of UK consumer, fashion, media, music and retailing research reports. It includes international travel and tourism reports. Each report links to relevant industry news and company information.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Reports on economies, economic data on all countries of the world. Identify key macroeconomic factors that impact the operating environment. Content includes International industry market profiles and analyses including SWOT, market shares and brand shares. Breakdown of components for a Company and Industry Analysis especially PEST analysis.
First time account registration required. Use your London Met email address and enter Western Europe as your region

HELP: Use video and guides for help with Working with Statistics

Statista This link opens in a new window
This online statistics portal provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, business organizations and government institutions.
Background on companies, industries, markets and quantitative data on airlines, airports, business, ecommerce, communications, finance, social media, telecoms from UK, US, China, Europe and other countries.

Emerging Markets case study series

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies This link opens in a new window
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. We have access to the 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 case studies.
Go to Browse our Collections > Emerging Markets Case Studies (EMCS). Select 'Only Content I have Access To' on the right-hand side.

Finance & Equities

Bloomberg
Major industry-level resources providing current and historical global data on banking, financial markets, economic indicators, company information and news.
NOTE: The Bloomberg Suite is located in Holloway Road campus in room T1-20 on the mezzanine area near the Tower building entrance. Students who require access need to ask their lecturer to request access via the IT Self-Service Portal.
Nasdaq Data Link (formerly Quandl
Site providing access to financial, economic and alternative datasets for investors from various sources including central banks and stock exchanges. Includes alternative data previously hosted by Quandl. Some free data is available (free account registration required).

Quantitative data and statistics

Passport This link opens in a new window
International market research database with country data, consumer lifestyles, consumer market sizes, forecasts, companies and brands, information sources, major market profiles, market analysis
Note:First time account registration required. Use your London Met email address and enter Western Europe as your region
Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor Help videos and guides Working with Statistics
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business and finance covering Europe (with a focus on the United Kingdom), the United States and China, from more than 18,000 sources.
UK Data Service This link opens in a new window
This UK social and economic data and statistics platform provides a unified point of access to data from the Economic and Social Data Service, UK censuses, Secure Data Service and others. Requires registration for first time use - search for London Met University on the login page and use your University IT login.
UN Monthly Bulletin Of Statistics This link opens in a new window
Data on important economic trends and developments, including population, industrial production and price indices, employment and earnings, energy, manufacturing, transport, construction, international merchandise trade, finance and national accounts.
Main Economic Indicators (OECD) This link opens in a new window
Contains data on national accounts, industrial production, employment, prices, business trends, finance and trade for the major world economies and runs from January 1960 to the current month.

Statistics list on A-Z
Link to various statistics portals