MKT 500 - Marketing Strategies
This guide identifies library-based and other internet sources that can be utilized to complete Dr. Spirou's 10 Point company analysis project.
Trends in the External Marketplace - Enabling (or Disabling) the Company
- Mintel Academic This link opens in a new windowMintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowLargest web-based industry research provider covering over 13,000 domestic and international industries. Shapiro Library provides access to US Industry Market Research, IExpert Summary Reports, Business Environment Database, US Specialized Industry Reports and Global Industry Reports. Watch a video overview of the new IBISWorld interface - please note that due to our authentication model personalization features are not available. The IBISWorld classic interface will be available until mid-2020. If you encounter a login page when accessing that link, please open it in a different browser.
- MarketLine (Explorer) This link opens in a new windowThe Threats in the SWOT Analysis: Marketline Advantage offers a comprehensive and unique collection of company, industry, financial, product and country information, research and data extending across every major marketplace and industry.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowThe Threats in the SWOT Analysis: Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. Nexis Uni is the new platform to replace LexisNexis Academic, which has been phased out by the vendor
- U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks national and regional economic data including monthly reports on the consumer price index, producer prices, unemployment figures, and more.