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Four campus libraries are open for Twin Cities students, faculty, and staff with valid U Cards. Hours are limited. Other libraries may be open by appointment. (Last updated Nov. 23, 2020)

Industry Research

IBIS World (Business)
Search for Foot Care Product Manufacturing, Shoe & Footwear Manufacturing in the US, etc.
EMIS Professional
Find company and industry information, reports, statistics, proprietary mergers and acquisitions, credit analytics, benchmark indicators and trend comparisons to help understand emerging markets.
FitchConnect (formerly BMI Research)
Detailed reports on global industrial and municipal markets, companies and nonprofits, emphasizing emerging markets. Include extensive country risk and credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial analysis, and ESG scores. Find intra-daily alerts on economic, industrial, and political developments, business deals, multinational joint ventures, and regulatory changes.

UMN affiliated users may request an individual account by sending a request to busref@umn.edu.

Market Research

Frost & Sullivan Market Research Reports
Medical Device Innovations in Bionics
BCC Research (Business)
BCC provides market research, forecasting, and industry intelligence reports. BCC reports provide information on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations.
MarketResearch.com Academic
Market research reports on service industries, consumer goods,food and beverage, heavy industry, life sciences, technology and media.
Mintel Trends
Mintel Trends provides strategic, evidence-backed insights on how today's consumer thinks, feels and acts. It analyzes changes in culture, society, brands and markets.
Mintel Market Research
Mintel reports provide market research on consumer products, services, and lifestyles to identify economic drivers, leading companies, market share, market size, trends, segmentation, and analysis of consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Includes Mintel Trends to analyze consumer trends by sectors, demographics, themes and regions.

Innovation

CB Insights
National Science Foundation-backed company that uses data to provide Venture Capitalists, corporate strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions groups, and investment bankers with intelligence on emerging companies and disruptive technology trends.

You must create a personal account to access this resource. Click on the SIGN UP link. Accounts expire after one year and must be renewed annually. Contact CB Insights at info@cbinsights.com to renew/reinstate account logins.
PitchBook
Use PitchBook to search thousands of private equity and venture capital deals by hundreds of criteria. Establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details.

Each user must create a personal account while on campus using their valid @umn.edu e-mail address. Individual accounts must be reset every year on June 30th. Detailed instructions on how to create a personal account are available at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bVUTN3pg0-aspINDAiFqQXyQEi9al5-_EqRaekqPneM/edit?usp=sharing

Walk in users please contact busref@umn.edu ahead of your visit to arrange for login access. Walk-in Guest Users login in at: https://www.pitchbook.com
**During the COVID-19 time of Libraries closure, guest access cannot be facilitated**

Downloads set at 10/day and 25/month per user; resets monthly. All data and content available in PitchBook except Morningstar equity research

Faculty requiring larger data downloads may contact the library for assistance. Forward Pitchbook faculty download requests busref@umn.edu.

Cultural

Cultural Atlas - Chilean Business Culture

Doing Business in Chile and Peru: Challenges and Opportunities by John E Spillan; Mohammad Nakibur Rahman
Publication Date: 2020

GlobalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
Economist, 1997-current
Access to "The Economist" from July 1997 to the most recent issue.

When accessing this resource off campus or via Wi-Fi, please use VPN (Virtual Private Network) to avoid access issues. Information on VPN is available at Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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