UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Business & Economics: International

Company Research

Mergent Online
Financial statements and detailed company profiles for 15,000 U.S. and 20,000 international publicly-traded companies.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Detailed profiles, financial statements (for public), market data, research & more for over 100,000 U.S. & international companies, both public and private.
Mergent Intellect
Company profiles, business/social analytics, financials (for public), competitors, executives & more for over 100 million U.S. and international companies, both public and private.

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Business Source Premier: Company Reports
MarketLine Company Profiles (fka Datamonitor) for 10,000 U.S. and international companies, both public and private.
Hoover's Company Profiles
Basic reports for over 40,000 U.S. & international companies, both public and private.
International Directory of Company Histories
Brief histories of the world's largest and most influential companies.
GlobalData Company Profiles - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review
(in ProQuest One Business database)

Industry Research

ProQuest One Business: Industry Reports
Browse by sector, country, and report provider.
Business Source Premier: Industry Profiles
Access MarketLine Industry Profiles for industries worldwide.
Mergent Intellect: First Research
Detailed profiles on over 500 industries, including some Canadian coverage and global overviews.
* NOTE: Click link above, then scroll down to "First Research." Click that link and enter your email address to access the database.
Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys (via NetAdvantage)
Industry and market research, including direct access to current and archived S&P Industry Surveys.
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Market Share Reporter (Gale Directory Library)
- Market share data for companies, brands, industries, & more.
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Market share is "the percentage of an industry or market's total sales that is earned by a particular company over a specified time period. It is calculated by taking the company's sales over the period and dividing it by the total sales of the industry over the same period.

Entries provide a description of the market; a summary of the size of the market; a breakdown of market share by percentage; complete source citation; subject categories; SIC and NAICS code(s).
Business Rankings Annual (Gale Directory Library)
Over 5,000 business rankings for companies, industries, products, and more.
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Entries provide: a descriptive title; criteria for the ranking; total number of items listed; remarks on other relevant data included in the source material; the “top ten” items included in each ranking; a complete citation; and more.

Country Reports

► Business Source Premier: Country Reports
Report collections from various publishers, including:

Tip: Use Country or Region tab to retrieve reports for a specific geographic location.

► ProQuest One Business: Country Reports
Report collections from various publishers, including:

Charting Economy
Economic reports for over 100 countries, primarily chart-based.
Fitch Solutions Risk Reports Over 100 countries; country-level risk and SWOT reports covering various national risk factors such as political, operational, economic, and criminal.
EIU Country Finance & Forecast Reports Over 40 countries; political, economic, and business environment forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit; updated monthly.

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Gale Business Insights Global: Compare Countries
View statistical data for a single country or compare two or more countries.
* Tip: Begin by clicking the "Add/Remove" button on the right to select specific countries and then use the drop-down to select "Search Metrics."
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Europa World
Political & economic information for over 250 countries and territories. After selecting a country, click Country Statistics view basic descriptive statistics for various subjects (e.g. Finance). Click Comparative Statistics to generate and download country data for a limited time series.

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Country Commerical Guides (export.gov)
Market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries prepared by U.S. embassies worldwide.
Doing Business in ... (World Bank)
Discontinued in 2020: Will be replaced by Business Ready (B-READY) on September 25, 2024
Includes country rankings for the Ease of Doing Business Index as well as subnational reports, which cover business regulation in different cities and regions within a nation.
Country Risk Reports (A.M. Best)
Reports for 100+ countries quantifying and analyzing the economic, political, and financial risks of investing in and doing business with that country.
International Tax Highlights (Deloitte)
Overview of the tax systems of over 100 countries.
Country Insights (globalEDGE) (Michigan State)
Statistical data and historical, economic, and political overview for over 200 countries.

Library Databases: General Statistics

Sage Data
Provides access to a wide variety of economic, social, and political indicators including data sets from the U.S. government, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the OECD, Eurostat, the United Nations, the world's stock exchanges, and Zillow. Offers customized graphing and mapping.
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80 other countries.

Business & Economics

International Economic Data

International Trade Data (Export/Import)

Company Research

Industry Research

Country Reports

Library Databases: General Statistics