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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 The Estee Lauder
Companies
as well as the longer company overview
for Estee Lauder.
See also their Products/Operations and Competitive
Landscape. See also the list of companies in the Personal Care
Products industry as well as the industry overview for Personal Care
Products.
The latest SEC 10-K filing for EL includes
references to the company's international marketing: "We maintain a dedicated sales
force which sells to our retail accounts in North
America and in the major overseas markets, such as Western Europe and Japan. We
have wholly-owned operations in over 30 countries through which we market, sell
and distribute our products. In certain markets, we sell our products through
selected local distributors under contractual arrangements designed to protect
the image and position of the brands. In addition, we sell certain products in
selected domestic and international military locations, and over the Internet."
There are 33
SEC 10-K reports or parts of reports in this database for the company, going back to 1996.
A Company search for EL retrieved over 330
reports.
A search for Estee Lauder produced a list of just two reports, both with very low 14%
relevancy ratings.
A search for the keyword Cosmetics produced a list of 41 tables.
See Company Overview and Company Facts at a Glance. See Investor Information for financials and
Corporate Newsroom for annual reports for 2000 and
2001 as well as
corporate chronology.
See the company profile for Estee Lauder as well as the
company's position among its competitors
in terms of
market capitalization.
See the Consumer Information section. This association website
appears to have no substantive industry data.
Company and industry information:
See Cosmetics on page 489.
See Cosmetics on page 351.
See index page 956 for references to four tables on Cosmetics.
See pages 183 and 184 for Personal Hygiene & Cosmetics.
See pages 11.15 to 11.17 for
Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Other Toilet Preparations.
See Household Nondurables in volume two for many references to Estee Lauder.
See Toiletries and Cosmetics on pages 143 to 149.
See Estee Lauder, Inc. in volume 9, pages 201 to 204, and The Estee Lauder Companies
in volume 31, pages 187 to 191.
See Estee Lauder in volume one, pages 632 and 633, for the company's chronology to 1996.
See Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Toiletries on pages 450 to 456.
See Estee Lauder in tables 718 and 774 on pages 171 and 183.
See Estee Lauder in tables 548, 603, and 620 on pages 150, 164, and 169.
See Cosmetics pages 403 to 414.
See Men's, Women's Personal Care Products in volume P-8.
See Estee Lauder on page 433 in volume one.
See volume one, page 129 for Estee Lauder International; seven countries are listed.
See Lauder (Estee) in volume two, pages 5,904 to 5,905, for history, acquisitions,
mergers, joint ventures, licensing, properties, etc.
See the section on Cosmetics and Toiletries which includes Estee Lauder.
Country information:
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 cosmetics, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved a list of
nine
titles. A similar search for Estee Lauder retrieved just one record, for the company's
Annual Reports.
A subject search for Cosmetics industry retrieved a list of 24
titles, with four
records in the Foster Business Library collections. The Foster Business Library also has one
record with a chapter about the company:
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 includes annual reports for The Estee
Lauder Companies. The collection also annual reports for
competitors such as
Avon,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Proctor & Gamble,
Shiseido, and
Unilever.
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.
A search in this database, in All Collections,
for CO(Estee Lauder Cos Inc), produced 107 articles. Changing the search to CO(Estee Lauder Cos Inc)
and
international produced ten articles.
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.
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.
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.
Information about many industries as well as demographic information;
check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are
often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56
The first half of this volume covers socio-economic patterns, personal income, and consumer expenditures
in the domestic
market by commodity and by function for 52 major countries, with data from 1990 to 1998; the second half
consists of individual five-page profiles for each country.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HB522 .W67 1999.
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
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
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 two-volume work covers 1,500 major companies worldwide, with one- or
two-page timelines marking major events in each company's history.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .N67
Industry snapshots, outlook, regulations, research, associations,
societies, statistics, websites for 100 major U.S. industries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2771 .U8
Annual compilation of market share data on U.S. companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35
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
This large volume provides an overview and projections for 400 significant industries and their component
products or services, arranged alphabetically by industry name. For each product or service, there is a
brief indication of the value of the U.S. market in 1998 and the compound U.S. market growth rate from
1993 to
1998 as well as a graph depicting market value in dollars and the growth rate. There is also a brief
analysis of the market sectors for the product or service and a description of the market segmentation by
volume for 1997, plus U.S. market share and market forecast information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.1 .U8 2001.
This reference work, in about two dozen volumes, provides data on consumers' lifestyles and buying habits
for
hundreds of consumer products from accessories/clothing to yogurt. Data is offered in breakdowns by age,
sex, race, income, education, geographic region, and many other categories. There is no product index
but for each product type, there is an indication of products covered at the beginning of the volume.
This source offers demographics of typical buyers for a product,
market shares of competing products, and
data on media usage (such as newspapers/magazines read, radio listened to, TV and cable watched, etc.).
There is an explanation in each volume of how to interpret the data in the rows and columns.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.3 M43 1998.
This annual two-volume publication, also known as The Advertiser Red Book, is the most
comprehensive
source for information on the advertising practices of 24,000 U.S. and Canadian companies spending a
minimum of $200,000 on national and regional advertising. Companies may be accessed by 54 business
categories or by state, province or city. Entries for companies advertising include SIC codes, business
descriptions, statistics, personnel, approximate advertising expenditures, and media. Entries for ad
agencies often include the companies and brand names handled and the executive assigned to each account.
Volume two includes indexes by product by state or province, by brand name, by SIC code and by personnel.
There is also a geographic index volume.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7 2000. (volume 1: businesses)
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7 2000. (volume 2: indexes)
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7115 2000. (geographic index)
This three-volume annual publication lists 2,600 U.S. companies with 35,000 branches,
subsidiaries, and affiliates in 190 countries. Volume one lists the firms in alphabetic
order, detailing the countries in which the companies operate. The companies section is followed by
listings by country, with Albania to Egypt in volume one, El Salvador to Mauritius in volume
two, and Mexico to Zimbabwe in volume three.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4538 .A1 .D5
This two-volume work covers all companies listed on the New York and American stock exchanges,
with
extensive information about companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers,
spinoffs,
properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and
balance sheets
for three and two years, respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M67 2000.
Statistical data on 3,000 companies in 137 industries, with ranking, key
financial information, operating data and ratios.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M68
This World Bank volume contains a large number of tables listing each country and key
data about its people, environment, economy, markets, employment, poverty, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC59.15 W656
Also available, in part, online at http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html.
Published annually by the International Monetary Fund, this compendium of
statistics for every country provides information on population, GDP,
producer, wholesale and consumer prices, wages, labor force,
unemployment, volume and value of imports and exports, and many other
categories. Statistics cover each year of the past 30 years, where
data is available. The most recent decade of the monthly version of this
yearbook is available in the
Foster Business Library Reference Serials collection, with the call
number HG3881 .I626
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG3881 .I6263
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.
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.