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Foster Business Library
Databases:
See this database's extensive country information for Saudi Arabia, for the monthly
Country
Reports, the annual Country Profiles, the annual Country Commerce report, and more, including a long Risk Report for the country.
A search in Region/Country for Saudi Arabia produced just four reports, with none for apparel, but including one for alcoholic beverages. Victoria's Secret is mentioned in a report entitled Clothing retailers in the USA June 2004.
Under Nation and World, see Countries and Their Cultures, 2001; see the section on Saudi Arabia. See also Saudi Arabia in the Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies.
See the company fact sheet for Victoria's Secret Stores,
Inc. as
well as the
company fact sheet for its parent company, Intimate Brands,
which in turn is owned by Limited Brands, Inc.
The catalog operation is a separate company, Victoria's
Secret Direct (also an Intimate Brands subsidiary).
See also the fact sheet for the Apparel & Accessories
Retail industry.
Hoovers Online also offers a very short list of companies headquartered
in Saudi Arabia
for which it provides some level of coverage.
A ticker search for LTD, for Limited Brands, produced a list of over 1,100
reports.
This database includes over 170 S.E.C.10-K filings (or parts of filings) for Limited Brands. The latest filing includes over a dozen references to Victoria's Secret but none for Saudi Arabia.
Limited Brands is included in this database, with extensive information.
See the FY 2005 guide for Saudi Arabia; in particular, see chapter one on doing business in the country, and chapter four, on leading sectors for U.S. exports.
See the market research reports for Saudi Arabia, including reports on womens evening wear (2000) and lingerie (1999).
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
See Consumer Expenditures for Clothing on pages 402 and 403, and
Per Capita Clothing Sales, on page 446.
See Saudi Arabia on pages 347 to 348.
See Saudi Arabia on pages 386 to 389.
See Saudi Arabia on pages 1691 to 1693.
See Apparel on pages 970 to 977.
The history of Intimate Brands is in volume 24, pages
237 to 239. The history of Limited Brands is in volume V, pages 115 to 116, with an update in volume 20, pages 340 to 343. There is no history of Victoria's Secret in this set.
See Saudi Arabia on pages 322 to 329.
The only reference to Victoria's Secret is in volume one, table 821, on page 194.
See volume three, pages 3472 to 3490, for Saudi Arabia; Limited Brands is not included in this country (in fact, the only countries listed, in volume one, for the company are England and the United Kingdom).
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the
List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases
from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources
may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more
information on Foster business databases, click Databases,
A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index.
For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access.
For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever
you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. 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.
Public company homepages are often (but not always) an excellent source for information
about the company, with links to annual reports, company news, product details, information
about corporate
goals and culture, company financial information, Securities and Exchange Commission
filings, and company history. Look for the Investor
Relations and About Us areas on the company homepage for company information.
See the Our Brands section for Victoria's Secret
Stores; the store locator includes no stores outside the U.S. For information about Limited
Brands, see About Our Company and Investor Relations, with annual reports
back to 1995. There is no mention of Saudi Arabia in the 2004 annual report.
The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
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. 2003.
This annual paperback, jointly issued by the Heritage Foundation and Wall
Street Journal, ranks 156 countries in terms of foreign investment
friendliness, taxes, tariffs, banking regulations, monetary policy, black
markets, net foreign direct investment, etc. Arrangement is
alphabetical by country.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HB95 .I48 2002.
This Euromonitor publication provides global coverage of comparable income distribution data, over time and across countries, for 71 major countries, divided into socio-economic parameters, cross country comparisons, and snapshots for over seventy countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC79 .I5 .W675 2003.
This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and
practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200
contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best
practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business
dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources. See the World Business
Almanac section, on pages 1368 to 1767, for brief reports on 150 countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 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 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 forty volumes covers over 5,600 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 400-page paperback is arranged alphabetically by country name, with seven page profiles
for each country, detailing the country's history, government, language, religion and
demographics, cognitive styles, negotiation strategies, value systems, locus of decision
making, sources of anxiety reduction, issues of equality, business practices, protocol,
gestures, dress and gifts.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5389 .M67 1994.
Annual two-volume compilation of U.S. and world 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 2006.
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 2005.
These 200-page country profiles, for about 24 countries, prepared by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, cover
business
environment, opportunities for foreign investment and trade, investment incentives and
restrictions, the regulatory situation, banking, business entities, labor relations and social security, auditing and accounting practices and tax. New countries are added to this set since it was first published in 1999. An earlier series, Doing Business In, covers another 75 countries, published from 1984 to 1998. Click here
for a list of the titles in both series by country; not all countries are covered.
The volume for Saudi Arabia is outdated, published way back in 1991.
Foster Business Library Books:
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "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.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
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) to Z (at the far west end).
A keyword search for Saudi Arabia, limited to the Foster Business Library,
produced over 45
records, including:
A keyword search for Victoria's Secret produced just one relevant record:
See also:
The subject term for the apparel industry is Clothing Trade. A search for this term, limited to
the Foster Business Library, retrieved a list of over forty
records, including:
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 collection, see the library's Corporate Annual Reports Collection. For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, see the Annual Reports Industry Sector Index . For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., see Corporate Annual Reports Headquarters Index .
See annual reports for The Limited and other companies in the Retail sector.
Foster Business Library Articles:
Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.
A search for Victoria's Secret and Saudi Arabia produced just four articles, including:
A company search for CO(Victorias Secret) produced a list of over 1,000 articles; a search for CO(Victorias Secret) and Middle East produced just two, irrelevant articles.
A broader search, for Lingerie and Middle East produced over forty articles; a search for Lingerie and Saudi Arabia, over 45 articles. Some examples of the latter search include:
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.