> 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…
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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…
Awarded Business Books
> Return to the #76 Newsletter Looking for the best business books? Find all the books that have been awarded by The Financial Times and McKinsey, The Economist and Strategy+Business in the IESE Library Catalog. Go to the Catalog and click on “Book List”. This brings up several static book lists by award and year. If you want to retrieve awarded books by a particular criterion, go to the “Advanced search” page,…
Screening PE & VC Investors by Investment Criteria
> Return to the #75 Newsletter Interested in screening for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography? Go to Thomson One. But bear in mind, this resource only works on Internet Explorer (see How-To: Thomson One: access). Click on Screening & Analysis. Drag mouse over Private Equity then click on Companies & Investors. At the top of the page select an Entity Type of…