LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION

Lingnan University LibraryFeb 2013

TERENCE CHEUNG – REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library-workshops/handouts

OUTLINE

Basic Research StrategiesCompany Information

Company Profiles Competitors Annual Reports & Company Financials Stock Prices Credit Ratings Company News

China Company Information

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AFTER THE WORKSHOP, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

Know basic research strategies.Learn different categories of company information.Have an overview on resources available for finding

company information.Use some selected databases to find company

information.

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What library service do you use?

What sources do you use for your research?

Any problems?

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Make the things right at the beginning.

Good investment of time.

http://tomfishburne.com/2012/11/creative-brief-2.html

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What do you do before you do a research?

Don’t need all the answers at the beginning!!!

COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE

Research Guides @ LU Business Company Information

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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION

DATABASES:

Hoover’s Online Information on over 45,000 public and private companies including company history, top officers, financials, competitors, location, company news, etc.

Business Source Premier – Company ProfilesIncludes articles on business fields such as marketing, management, accounting, finance, economics, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc.

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INTERNET RESOURCES:

Company Information (from Etnet)Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/stocks/ci_database.php

Company Histories (from Answers.com)http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories

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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION

COMPETITORS

Hoover’s OnlineOsirisBusiness Source Premier – Company ProfilesFactiva [Companies/Markets]

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HOOVER’S ONLINE EXERCISE

1. Can you find me the gross profit of Bossini (the Hong Kong clothing retail store) in 2012?

2. Try to build a list of china listed insurance companies with annual sales greater or equal to USD8,000 million. Tell me how many companies did you find and what’s their name.

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ANNUAL REPORTS & COMPANY FINANCIALS

DATABASE: Osiris Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal 

INTERNET RESOURCES: HKExNews

http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/csm/search.asp?LangCode=en&location=companySearch

Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com] http://www.irasia.com/ar.htm 12

STOCK PRICESDATABASES:DatastreamBloomberg Terminal

INTERNET RESOURCES:ETNet

http://www.etnet.com.hk

Bloomberg.comhttp://www.bloomberg.com/quote/5:HK

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CREDIT RATINGS Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.

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Current data

COMPANY NEWS

Databases:Factiva (English)LexisNexis Academic (English)Wisesearch (English & Chinese)

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LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC EXERCISE

There is a news in South China Morning Posting in December 2012 mentioning the number of sales of iPhone 5 in the first week of official sales in mainland China.

Can you locate this news and tell me how many iPhone have been sold in the first week in mainland China?

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CHINA COMPANY INFORMATION

Databases:

Wind China Financial Information Services(Wind.Net) Financial data and news for China including listed companies (A-share and B-share), fund, bond, macro economic data, etc.

CSMARCompany financial information and trading statistics of listed companies in China. Includes both A Shares and B Shares..

China InfoBank (中國資訊行 )An important source of economic and business data, legislations, statistics and news of Mainland China. Most information is in Chinese.

中國公司企業產品中國經濟新聞中國商業報告 17

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Thank you for your time and

the most important, your

patience.