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.
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See the company fact sheet for Harley-Davidson,
Inc.,
Inc. as well as the longer Company
Overview;
see
also the link to Financials.
See also their Competitive
Landscape and the
the list of
companies (and competitors) in the Motorcycle
& Other Small Engine Vehicle Manufacturing industry.
A company search for the ticker symbol HDI produced a list of 717
reports.
A search for SEC 10-K reports for HDI, for all dates, retrieved
89 filings or parts of filings. Typically, these reports are a gold mine for company,
industry, and market and market share information. For instance, the latest company 10-K report notes:
"Studies by the Company indicate that the average U.S. Harley-Davidson
motorcycle purchaser is a married male in his mid-forties, with a household
income of approximately $78,300, who purchases a motorcycle for
recreational purposes rather than to provide transportation and is an
experienced motorcycle rider. Over two-thirds of the Company's U.S. sales
of Harley-Davidson motorcycles are to buyers with at least one year of
education beyond high school, and 31% of the buyers have college degrees.
Approximately 9% of the Company's Harley-Davidson U.S. retail motorcycle
sales are to female buyers."
There are also nearly a dozen references, in this filing, to Brazil.
A search in this database for Motorcycles retrieved 384 Power Tables; a search for Motorcyles and
Sales retrieved 26 tables.
A Company Quick Search for Harley-Davidson retrieved
719 records, arranged alphabetically by state.
See Company for
corporate information, in the upper menu, with their version of the company's
history.
See Investor Relations for
financials, SEC filings, and Annual Reports.
See also their Motorcycle & Customer Data.
There is also a link to the enormous Harley Owners Group, with over 800,000 member/customers.
See Business Week's company profile for Harley-Davidson,
with
information from articles in the magazine, from the Vault.Com, Wetfeet.Com, and a Corporate Snapshot.
See the company profile for Harley-Davidson as well
as the
company's position among its competitors
in terms of
market capitalization in the Recreational Vehicles industry.
See the company profile for Harley-Davidson as well as the excellent
Ratio
Comparisons for the company, its industry, its sector, and the S&P 500.
Under Consumer Goods Industries, see the Bicycles, Motorcycles and Parts Index Page
for input and export data.
In the 2001 report, there are many references to motorcycles.
See Motorcycles on pages 360 to 362.
See index page 967 for three tables concerning Motorcycles and accidents, foreign trade
and racing.
See Motorcycles on pages 333.
See Consumer Expenditure on Purchase of Cars, Motorcycles and Other Vehicles, 1990-1998
on pages 137 and 138.
See Harley-Davidson on pages 39-1, and 39-20 to 39.22.
See Autos and Auto Parts in volume one; see
Harley-Davidson in the Comparative Company Analysis on pages 30 to 35.
See Harley-Davidson on pages 66 to 69.
See Harley-Davidson in volume 7, page 211 to 214, as well as an update in volume 25,
pages, 196 to 200.
See Harley-Davidson in volume one, pages 794 to 795, for the company's chronology
to 1996.
See Motorcycles in U.S. Operation on page 280.
See Harley-Davidson in tables 1067 and 1069 on pages 235 and 236.
See Harley-Davidson in tables 1049 and 1051 on page 307.
See Motorcycles on pages 126 to 128.
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. 2002.
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 2000.
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 2002.
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.
Industry by industry overview of the U.S. economy, with numerous tables, charts, industry
reviews, forecasts and analyses.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC101.U543 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.
This slim paperback covers 50 companies from a brand perspective, with
three to six page essays on each company.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD69 .B7 .C722 2003.
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 1999.
The primary sourcebook for current information about all aspects of the
automotive industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U5 .W3 2002.
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 2003.
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 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
Market analysis information including demographic, geographic and lifestyle
information to identify who customers are, where they live, how they spend their
time and money and how to reach them.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.33 .U6 .L54 2002.
See the Lifestyle profile for Motorcycles on pages 830 to 833.
See Harley-Davidson on page 196.
See the Harley-Davidson, Inc. on pages 715 to 722.
Find Harley-Davidson in the standard edition, issue number 12, page 1849, dated August 23, 2002; see also page 1841 in this issue for the Recreation industry, which includes Harley-Davidson.
Volume one lists Harley-Davidson among the U.S. companies doing business in foreign countries, on page 164, in England, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.
For Harley-Davidson, see volume one, pages 3604 to 3605; among the company's properties is one in Brazil. There is also a company subsidiary located there.
See Harley-Davidson in the 052, Automobiles & Trucks.
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 Harley-Davidson retrieved eight
records, including three
records in the Foster Business Library.
A subject search for Motorcycle Industry retrieved 15
records, though only two
records are located in the Foster
Business Library.
A word search in OhioLink, to identify
books with chapters about the company, retrieved a list of 69 records, including some
titles in the UW Libraries:
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 Harley Davidson but it does include some companies in the Automotive & Transport Equipment industry, including two automobile companies that also produce motorcycles (BMW and Honda).
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(Harley-Davidson Motor Co), for articles published since 1999, produced a list of 128
articles. Repeating this search in Backfile, for articles published from 1986
to 1998, produced a list of 673 articles.
Limiting the post-1999 search just to peer-reviewed
articles cut this total to four articles.
A similar search in all collections for CO(Harley-Davidson Motor Co) and strategy, in citations and
abstracts,
produced a list of just three articles, published since 1999.
Repeating this search in Backfile, for articles published from 1986 to
1998, produced a list of 29 articles. A similar search for CO(Harley-Davidson Motor Co) and Brazil
retrieved no articles, searching throughout the full text of all articles published since 1999; repeating this
search in Backfile produced just one article.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
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