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Happy Valentine’s with Euromonitor Passport!

By: Laura Hansen

Published on: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Welcome to Spring Semester, business researchers!

We’re less than one week away from Valentine’s Day, and I thought it was a good time to share some interesting Valentine’s-themed nuggets of note our vendor has shared with us that will (hopefully) help you to fall in love with one of our favorite market research databases: Euromonitor Passport GMID!

First, the Dashboards in Euromonitor Passport GMID reveal that the US is the largest market in the world for chocolate confectionery.  Good news for chocolate lovers, but growth in this market has declined since 2009.

 

Secondly, Mars is the dominant player in the confectionery market after overtaking The Hershey Company in 2008 (I’m excited to see Lindt and Ferrero on this list, personally).

And finally, if jewelry is more your style this Valentine’s Day, new data available for Passport Industrial reveals that Tiffany’s is the largest producer of jewelry in the US.

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New Mergent Interface

By: Ryan Carter

Published on: Thursday, July 1st, 2010

If you’re accessing Mergent Online on July 6th or later, you’re in for a surprise.  The UST Libraries’ best tool for getting public company financials, SEC documents, and more has changed its look.

company lookup

You’ll find a better company lookup tool and more options for finding company information more quickly.  Getting ratio reports and historical pricing for the company is easier, too.

Click here quick tips for using the new Mergent Online.  All of the old features of Mergent Online are still available.  Getting to them has been made easier.

quick tip sheet

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Hoover’s Company Records and Experian Business Reports

By: Ryan Carter

Published on: Thursday, March 11th, 2010

lexisnexis image smallMany know LexisNexis for its reputation in legal research.  On the non-law-school side of the library, we use LexisNexis primarily for news and business information.

A couple of the most interesting LexisNexis resources are Hoover’s Company Records and Experian Business Reports. 

Hoover’s profiles are well known, and while UST has other means of getting at the same profile info they contain, many prefer the Hoover’s format for finding out about estimated revenue, company leadership, and more.  Hoover’s profiles are especially good for private companies.

experian sampleExperian Business Reports, however, are unique among our resources, and serve as a credit report for a business.  In these reports you can learn whether a business has taken out a loan, what it’s using as collateral, whether it’s repaid other loans on time, and more.  There is often very little that we can learn about small private businesses with standard information sources.  Having this kind of snapshot of a company can be extremely valuable.

Want to learn how to access these reports?  Here’s a very simple video.

Note that LexisNexis will be offline from 10:00p central Saturday night, March 13th, to 5:00a central Sunday morning, March 14th.

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