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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 industry fact sheet for Jewelry & Watch Manufacturing
(part of the Consumer Products industry)
and the Company List. For an example of a company primarily in the watch business, see U.S. public company Movado Group, Inc. and its Products/Operations and Competitive Landscape. See also the brief Auto Manufacturing industry factsheet, plus the company factsheet for BMW AG
and its Products/Operations.
An advanced search in Viewswires for
Watch Industry retrieved a list of just seven articles, most of them about Switzerland. This database also has extensive country information in its Country Reports, Country Profiles, and Country Commerce online publications, for the U.S., Korea, European countries, China, and Japan.
An advanced search in Viewswires, limited to the automotive industry, for
BMW retrieved a list of over 500
articles.
A search in this database, in titles, for Wrist Watches, produced just one report, on the United Kingdom market, dated 2002. Repeating the search in text produced over 25 reports (most of them chapters in the United Kingdom report). A search in this database, in text, for BMW, produced ten reports, including recent reports on the automobile aftercare and accessories markets in the U.S. and France, passenger cars in Germany, and the scooter market in the United Kingdom.
A company search for a major public watch company, Movado, with the ticker symbol MOV, produced a list of over two dozen
reports. A company search for BMW produced a list of more than 800
reports from sources such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and others.
For industry information, try the S.E.C. filings for a company that is primarily in the watch industry, such as Movado, for which this database has over 15 S.E.C. 10-K reports (or parts of reports). For instance, in their latest report, they note that the "largest markets for watches are North America, Western Europe and Asia. According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, Swiss finished watch production was 25.9 million units or approximately 10.1 billion Swiss francs in 2003, a decrease of 4.4% or 461 million Swiss francs below 2002 production. The Company's Swiss watch brands include Movado, Concord, ESQ, Coach and as of March 1, 2004, Ebel." See the rest of the Industry Overview in this filing.
See the extensive company information for Movado Group. An industry search for the NAICS code 334518,
Watch & Clock Manufacturing, produced a list of 26 companies. See also this database's information on BMW.
A keyword search for Watches produced over 580 tables; a subject search for "Watches and Clocks" produced over 400 tables. A search for BMW produced just nine tables.
See Movado, in the Precision Instruments industry, with 58 companies profiled (many of them not in the watchmaking industry).
CD-ROM database:
Search for Watches, part of the Accessories subgroup. Demographics of BMW purchasers may be found under Automotive, Autos & Trucks, Make/Model.
See sales by country by Jewellers on page 427 and 431 (but without any reference to watches). See Automotives on pages 591 to 606.
See Watches, Clocks, Parts in table 1301 on page 820, for U.S. exports and imports, 1999 to 2002. See index pages 1008 and 1009 for many tables on Motor Vehicles, including expenditures per new car, production, etc.
See Jewellers on pages 281 and 288. See Automotives on pages 385 to 399.
See Motor Vehicles on pages 178 to 181.
See the sections on each of the countries included in this assignment.
See Autos and Auto Parts in volume one.
See Motor Vehicles, starting on page 1011.
See World Production on pages 12 and 13; U.S. Retail Sales, starting on page 15;
World Registrations, on pages 50 and 53; World
Trade in Motor Vehicles, page 59.
See four references to BMW in section one.
See World Wrapup on pages 13; Global Auto Industry on pages 14 to 34;
Focus: Asia/Pacific, pages 66 to 90; Focus: Europe, pages 92 to 113; Focus:
United States, pages 119 to 123. See also index page 10 for many
references to BMW.
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. 2003.
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 2003.
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 2003.
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 2002.
This volume covers consumer disposable income for over seventy major countries, with data from 1990 to 2002, with profiles for each country.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC75 .I5 .W675 2003.
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 (Quarterly)
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.
This slim annual volume covers a multitude of facts about the U.S. auto industry with an emphasis on the
U.S., Canadian and Mexican markets. There is an index but without any references to specific
manufacturers.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U5 .M63a 2002.
This 74-page pamphlet, from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in three sections, examines the challenges
and opportunities,
new boundaries, strategic scenarios facing automobile companies worldwide, and forecasts for
the industry and its key players into 2006. Unfortunately there is no index to the sections
or to the report as a whole.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .A2 .A19 2000a.
Also available online,
in PDF format.
The primary sourcebook for current information about all aspects of the
automotive industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9710 .U5 .W3 2002.
1,500 pages of maps, demographic and economic information, covering
population, race and ethnicity, age and sex, income, retail sales, business
establishments, consumer expenditures and employment data for states, counties,
metro areas and cities.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF3007 .S96 2002.
See Consumer Expenditures for total U.S., section 12, for expenditures on transportation.
See Watches in tables 1189, 1190, and 1191 on page 279 and in table 1601 on page 372. See BMW in tables 1074 and 1075 on page 253.
See Watches on pages 298 to 299. See BMW in table 985 on page 265; tables 1001, 1004, and 1005 on pages 269 to 171; and in tables 1009 and 1010 on page 272.
See Automotive Automation on pages 75 to 80.
See the Jewelry industry on pages 293 to 294, with just nine retail companies (including Movado), and the Automobiles & Trucks industry (no BMW), on pages 29 to 31, in the August 2004 to January 2005 edition.
See Keyless Entry Systems in volume seven, on page 13290; Locks: Automotive Door in volume seven, page 14078; and Watches, Electronic, in volume fourteen, page 26882.
Foster Business Library Books:
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 subject search for Clocks and Watches retrieved over 120 records, including one, very old record in the Foster Business Library (published in 1978). Most of the records from this search appear to be irrelevant for this assignment.
One recent relevant title is not in the UW Libraries but is available on request via Summit:
Use the Request This Item feature to have the book sent to the Foster Business Library for you.
A keyword search for
BMW retrieved nine records in the UW Libraries' collections, with two
records in the Foster Business Library:
A subject search for Automobile Industry and Trade found over 1,000
books in the UW Libraries. Limiting
this list to the Foster Business Library cut the number to over 280
records.
See also these books with chapters on BMW:
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 companies in the Automotive and Consumer Product sectors. See the extensive annual report file for BMW (from 1978).
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 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
Watches, produced a list of over 335,000
articles; for "Watch Industry," over 300 articles,
including over fifteen articles in scholarly journals, over twenty articles in magazines, over 180 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 75 articles in newspapers. A search for "Watch Industry" and "Information Technology" produced just two articles (the most recent, from 2000).
In another example, a search in all databases, for
BMW, produced a list of over 23,000
articles; for BMW and Korea, over 80 articles; for BMW and Watches, over 280 articles; for BMW and Keyless Entry, just 25 articles in magazines; for BMW and Options, over 530 articles; for BMW and Suppliers, over 430 articles.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.