Foster Business Library
Databases:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases; see also the four folders at the top of that list for lists of Foster databases by topic: Books, Articles—Full Text, Articles--Citations and Abstracts, and Company and Industry. For more information on the three dozen Foster business databases, click here.
For more information on which of the three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here.
For more information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here.
For information about responsible database usage, click here.
See the company fact sheet for EasyJet
Airline Company Limited;
see
also the link to Financials.
See also their Competitors.
In addition, see the industry fact sheet for Airlines
and the related Industry
Overview.
A company search for EasyJet produced a list of 113
reports.
Since EasyJet is a British company and its stock is not sold in the U.S., there are no SEC 10-K or 20-F reports
to be found. However, a search for EasyJet in Company Financial, in the source International Reports, for all
dates, retrieved 59 documents, dating back to 1996, including this
Extel Cards Database document:
"POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS. In October 2001, the Group took delivery of a new Boeing 737-700 aircraft, which was
financed by sale and leaseback. The Group is also in the process of seeking to raise additional funds by way of
Placing and Open Offer of airline make that may arise, to further strengthen its balance sheet and to help fund in
part its new aircraft purchases. In addition, the Chairman and the ultimate majority shareholder, Stelios
Haji-Ioannou, intends to sell between 13 million and 18.5 million shares in the company (approximating to 5% interest
in the Group). The Offering circular to qualifying shareholders and potential institutional investors of this
transaction is expected to be dispatched on 29-Oct-2001.
The Group believes that it is well placed to take advantage of the changing market conditions and the continued strong
sentiment towards low-cost airlines. In time, many other national airlines will follow British Airways' example at
Gatwick and begin to retrench from some of Europe's busiest airports giving the opportunity for other airlines, such
as itself, to compete. As a result, the Group believes its business model to be robust and is continuing with its
ambitious expansion plan. The Group is maintaining its existing aircraft delivery schedule of a further 10 B737-700s
to arrive in financial year 2002. By May 2004, its fleet will consist of 48 aircraft. Today's problems represent just
another staging post on the long journey to a less protectionist market when point-to-point travel in Europe is
dominated by two forms of transport: high-speed rail and low-cost airlines. That is the future and it intends to play
a major part in it. As the Group enters the new financial year, it is cautiously optimistic and believes that out of
every crisis there is opportunity.
Incorporated 24-Mar-2000 as a Private Company Limited; Re-registered 16-Oct-2000 as a Public Limited Company;
Registered No 3959649
On 22-Nov-2000, 63,000,000 New Ordinary shares of 25p were Offered at 310p per share and the Ordinary shares were
Admitted to the Official List of the London Stock Exchange.
The Ultimate Parent Company is easyJet Holdings Ltd, incorporated in Jersey."
An Advanced search for easyJet retrieved seven reports, the highest relevancy rating being 34%.
See About Us in the top menu for corporate information,
such as mission statement, and a link to
their Investor Relations for Financial News and Financial Reports including annual
reports for 1999/2000 (49 pages, in PDF format) and
2000/2001 (62 pages, in PDF format), plus an
interim report for 2001/2002 (17 pages, in PDF
format). Annual reports are often excellent sources of information about strategy (five references in the 2000/2001
report), expansion (two references), etc.
See the company profile for EasyJet as well as the
Technical Analysis for the company.
See their Aviation Links and Press
Release Library.
While many of their publications are fee-based, this association does
offer several free publications. For instance, take a look at the "Aviation Economic Impact"
link under Industry Information; in particular, the white paper entitled Globalization & the Airline Industry.
See pages 12 to 14 for travel industry demographics and chapter two for air travel, pages 35
to 72.
See the chapter on Travel and Tourism, on pages 670 to 703. See Civil Aviation
on pages 659 to 664.
See the chapter on Travel and Tourism, pages 453 to 465. See Civil Aviation
on pages 446 to 449.
See pages 23.16 to 23.19 for
Air Transportation.
See the industry profile for Airlines in volume one, dated March 2002. Most of this profile has a U.S.
orientation but international markets are addressed on pages 13 and 15.
See also the Industry References for listings of periodicals,
books, news services, trade associations, and regulatory agencies that are relevant to the
industry.
See Air Transportation, starting on page 1043, for a global overview of this
industry.
See EasyJet Airline Company in volume 39 (2001), pages 127 to 129.
EasyJet Airline Company is noted in several places in this small reference work.
EasyJet is in table 1196 on page 321, Glasgow to London Air Market.
See Airlines--International, starting on page 301; there is no easyJet in the index page.
Foster Business Library
Books:
Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each
online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check
out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out
to someone and is due back on the date indicated.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).
A keyword search for easyJet retrieved no records.
A search for the subject Aeronautics,
Commercial Passenger produced a list of 30
records, five
of which were in the Foster Business Library.
A search for the subject Airlines, restricted to the location Foster Business Library, produced a list of 110
records.
There is also one title, not in the UW Libraries or Cascade collections, that includes a chapter about easyJet,
entitled Brands in the balance: meeting the challenges
to commercial identity (2001) which could be
obtained via Interlibrary Borrowing; see chapter four
in that book.
Foster Business
Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand
annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are
filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection, click here.
For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click here. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.
The collection does not include annual reports for easyJet though the collection
does include airlines such as
Alaska Air Group,
American Airlines,
Delta,
Northwest,
Southwest, and
United.
Foster Business Library Articles:
Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW
Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server.
The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global.
For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.
This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase
into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry
and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on
Select Multiple Databases, to the right of the search box. Click then on Select All Databases.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
For example, a search in this database, in all collections, for
CO(EasyJet Airline Co Ltd), for articles published since 1999, produced a list of 154
articles. Repeating this search in Backfile, for articles published from 1986
to 1998, produced a list of 43 articles, some of them not available in full text.
A similar search in all collections for CO(EasyJet Airline Co Ltd) and strategy, in citations and
abstracts,
produced a list of ten articles, published since 1999; expanding the search for this phrase throughout the full
text of all articles increased the yield to 29 articles.
Repeating this search in Backfile, for articles published from 1986 to
1998, produced a list of nine articles, searching in citations and abstracts, and 13 articles, searching
throughout full text.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
Need help with writing or revising the written part of your assignment?
The Business Writing
Center, in Lewis Hall 304, provides consultations on business class
writing assignments (as well as cover letters, and resumes) with an
advanced business student trained in critiquing drafts and coaching
writers. Need help citing sources? Try our guide to Citing
Sources.
Unlike library databases, these Web resources are available wherever
you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. When using web resources, be sure to
evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.
This newly-published title covers the economic aspects of the travel industry, including
economic perspectives, travel, hotels, casinos, amusement parks, and tourism.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: G155 .A1 .V64 2001.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania; companion volume
to European marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2002.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for European countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA1107 .E87 2001.
Reviews and forecasts of sales, output, prices and other key
statistics for 130 industries, obtained by a major global economic
consulting firm.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC101 .W44 1999-2000.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries
with a focus
on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for
each industry.
Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources
of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74 March 2002.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and
development
information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 1999.
Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good
way to learn more about the history of an industry. This
set of more than thirty volumes covers over 4,700 company histories worldwide, with each
history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume
to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other
references to that company in other company histories. There is also
an index by industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57
This small paperback, published in Great Britain by the magazine Airline Business, covers fleets and industry
forecast, world airports and traffic, the top 100 airline groups and airline operations, regional airlines, IT trends
in the industry, and alliances, all in 122 pages. There is unfortunately no index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9768 .A46 2001.
An annual compilation of market share information for worldwide companies
culled from thousands of periodical articles; use
the company, product or brand indexes in the back of the volume to
identify the company that you are researching.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .W67 2001-2002.
This new title provides a wealth of information about airlines, both foreign and domestic (but with a decidedly
American
orientation),
airports, governmental agencies, safety, and the aerospace industry, in just over 1,000 pages.
There is a good index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: TL501 .A95 2002.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics, including many books useful for country research. To identify relevant books, go to the UW Libraries Catalog on the Foster Business Library homepage (under Business Databases).
Try searching by keyword. Use the Limit/Sort feature to create a list of books in the Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the pulldown menu under WHERE item is located to specify Foster Business Library and click on the box near the bottom Sort results by year. Then click on Limit/sort items retrieved using above data. Clicking on the titles in the resulting list will bring up the full catalog record, indicating which Foster area has the book (general stacks, reference, reserve, etc.), the call number and the circulation status.
In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical articles through its full text article
databases such as: ABI/Inform
Global,
Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic
Universe. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business
Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The
staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies.
For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For
assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.
