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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. 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 and overview for United Parcel Service, Inc.; see
also the link to Products/Operations and Financials.
See also their Competitors and, especially, the valuable Competitive Landscape, comparing the company with its top three competitors, its industry, and the market, across a variety of metrics; note UPS's dominant position versus Fed Ex in most metrics. See similar information for FedEx, comparing FedEx's Products/Operations with those of UPS, to compare sales by category.
In addition, see the industry fact sheet for Express Delivery Services.
A company search for the ticker symbol UPS produced a list of over 800
reports; for FedEx, over 1,200 reports. An industry search for the Trucking industry produced over 5,000 reports.
This database includes over forty SEC 10-K filings (or parts of filings) for UPS and over 200 SEC 10-K filings (or parts of filings) for FDX. See in particular, FedEx's Strategy, in its latest report, and contrast it with the Growth Strategy in UPS's latest filing.
Both United Parcel Service and FedEx are included in this database, with extensive information, especially in financials, with fifteen years of financials for most companies.
UPS and FedEx are included in this database, in the Air Transport Industry, with 25 companies profiled.
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
See Transportation: Commercial in volume three. Both UPS and FedEx are included in the extensive Comparative Company Analysis at the end of this survey, under Air Freight & Logistics.
See Trucking and Courier Services on pages 1090 to 1099, with references to UPS and FedEx under Industry Leaders, on pages 1096 to 1097.
See Logistics Outsourcing Services on pages 403 to 406.
See the United Parcel Service history in volume five, pages 533 to 535, and an update in volume 17, pages 503 to 506. See Federal Express in volume five, pages 451 to 453, with updates for FedEx in volume 18, pages 176 to 179, and in volume 42, pages 139 to 144.
See UPS and/or FedEx in tables 1264, 1265, and 1266 on page 296, and in tables 1295, 1296, and 1297, on page 304.
See UPS and/or FedEx in tables 1179, 1180, 1181, and 1184 on pages 315 to 317, and in tables 1205, 1210, and 1211, on pages 323 to 325.
See Courier Services on pages 143 to 144.
See pages 1014 to 1015 for NAICS code 492110, for Transportation, Couriers.
See page 103 for SIC code 4215, for Courier Service, Except Air, and page 106 for SIC code 4513, for Air Courier Services.
See the industry review for Freight Transportation, for both UPS and FedEx, on pages 228 to 230, in the August 2004—January 2005 edition.
Circulation status is indicated on the right of each online catalog record, on the right. Available 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. You can have the Request/Place Hold feature to recall the book for your use.
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 United Parcel Service retrieved just five records in the UW Libraries, with just three records in the Foster Business Library (none of which looked useful). A similar search for FedEx also produced just five records, with just two records in the Foster Business Library.
A search for the subject Express Service retrieved over sixty records
in the UW Libraries, with just four
records in the Foster Business Libraries' collections.
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 United Parcel Service and FedEx, and other companies in the Transportation sector.
Foster Business Library Articles:
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.
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 from thousands of scholarly journals, magazines, industry and trade periodicals, and newspapers. 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 on all of the 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 all databases, for
CO(United Parcel Service of America), produced a list of over 5,100
articles, including over 45 articles in scholarly journals, over 240 articles in magazines, over 1,700 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 2,800 articles in newspapers.
A similar search in all databases, for
CO(Federal Express Corp), produced a list of over 3,700
articles, including over eighty articles in scholarly journals, over 160 articles in magazines, over 1,500 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 1,300 articles in newspapers. United Parcel Service ranks first in number of articles about each company.
A similar search for
CO(United Parcel Service of America) and CO(Federal Express Corp) produced a list of just 415
articles, including over five articles in scholarly journals, thirty articles in magazines, over 170 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 170 articles in newspapers. As examples, see:
Access to these articles, of course, for UW affiliated students, faculty, and staff requires a UW Net ID; go through the Off-Campus Access box on the upper right of the Foster Business Library homepage.
A more targeted search for
CO(United Parcel Service of America) and Weakness, produced just seven articles; for CO(United Parcel Service of America) and Opportunity, over 95 articles. Try similar searches for FedEx.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
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.
Business faculty working papers are often an excellent source for concentrated in-depth recent information on topical
subjects. M.I.T. Sloan School Working Papers are now part of M.I.T.'s digital collections, readily accessible on the web. Papers are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
See United Parcel Services: Delivering Packages and E-Commerce
Solutions (dated 2002; a 17-page PDF file).
The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.
Foster Business Library
Books:
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 2003.
Five page descriptions of over 100 new industries, with an industry snapshot,
organization and structure, background and development, pioneers in the field, current conditions, industry leaders and references to further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E528 2001.
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
Annual compilation of U.S., Canadian and Mexican market share data for companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code, and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2004.
Annual compilation of market share data for companies, products and
services in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, arranged by SIC code and with
indexes by product, company and
topic.
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.
Norms and ratios for many industries and sizes of business, itemized by asset
size, and categorized by four digit SIC code.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5681 .B2 .R6 2003-2004.
Key business ratios for 800 S.I.C industry categories, a publication of
Dun & Bradstreet.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5681 .R25 .I525
2002-2003.
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
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. 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 Modify Search feature to restrict your list of books to the
Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the pulldown menu under Location to specify Foster Business Library. 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.
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.