Research Guides: International Marketing: Getting Started

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Passport
Passport provides international market intelligence for countries, consumers and industries. Please note: All access to this database is restricted to GW students, faculty and staff who will have to login - even on campus. Walk-in use by others is not permitted.

Country Commercial Guides Annual
. These reports contain "information on the business and economic situation in foreign countries and the political climate as it affects U.S. business."

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Provides political, economic, and business information on countries. Generally, the best way to use the database is to select country report under My Reports and Services and then select the country from the list that is then displayed.

Acquisdata
These can be accessed via the database Business Source Ultimate by typing Acquisdata in the top box and changing the box to the right to publication name and typing the industry name in the second box and changing the box to its right to subject. One may also limit by geographic term.
Fitch Solutions (formerly, until 2018, BMI Country Industry Reports)
These can be accessed via the database ABI Inform (advanced search) by typing in the top box "Fitch Solutions" or "BMI Country Industry Reports" and changing the box to the right to publication title. In the box below one can type the country and change the box to its right to location and add a third box and type in it an industry, product, or service and change the box to its right to subject. or anywhere except full text.
Marketline Reports
These can be accessed via the database Business Source Complete by typing "industry profile" (including the quotation marks) in the top box and changing the box to the right to publication name and type the industry name in the second box and changing the box to its right to subject. One may also limit by geographic term.
Market Intelligence
Type in a product or service and the country (e.g. wine Taiwan) to retrieve U.S. Government sponsored reports.

MarketResearch.com
Provides market research reports and industry analysis. There is an advanced search option that allows for more sophisticated searching. It is not permitted to distribute reports to anyone who is not a student, faculty member, or staff member of the George Washington University, nor to use the reports for any commercial purpose (such as at an internship or job).