> Return to the #81 Newsletter Looking for news related to a person, corporation or industry with a negative or positive slant? Factiva can help you with its “Factiva Expert Searches” tool. Factiva Expert Searches (FES) are pre-defined search strings created by Factiva search experts to find implicit topics and subjects that are often difficult for many users to write searches for on their own. To run a “News Sentiment” Expert…
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Business Plan Export
> Return to the #80 Newsletter Need to create a business plan? Statista’s new “Business Plan Export” Expert Tool can help you create your own business plan in 3 steps. The tool allows you to model markets, although for the moment Statista only focuses on consumer and digital markets. That is expected to change. Drawing from more than 1.4 million data points, the tool is a rich source of information for…
Consumer Spending by Income Bands
> Return to the #79 Newsletter Interested in exploring how spending on consumer goods and services varies across household income segments, countries, and time? The Analytics section in Passport provides an easy and flexible way to size the number of households for different income bands, explore what these households are spending their income on, and gauge each category’s share of household spending. The dashboard provides fully comparable consumer expenditure data on 12…
Perform a Company Credit Analysis?
> Return to the #78 Newsletter Need to track down a credit analysis for companies in Emerging Markets? Go to EMIS database and use the EMIS Credit Analytics tool. You can retrieve company profile ratings for selected companies. EMIS Credit Analytics is a risk assessment model based on the concept of industry benchmark. The scoring mechanism takes into consideration: • relative performance of the company against the industry; • analysis of the…
Looking for Family Business?
> Return to the #77 Newsletter Need to identify family-owned companies? Use Orbis or Sabi databases. Both contain detailed information regarding company shareholders. To create a list of family businesses go to either Orbis or Sabi. The main difference between the two databases is that ORBIS covers very large international companies while SABI focuses on companies located in Spain. Click on “Ownership data” on the Home page and select the following criteria: “Companies owned by a…