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.
For information about responsible database usage, click here.
See the Hoovers Online company overview for the Body Shop International
as well as the long
list of competitors, in Hoovers Online, in the Cosmetics, Beauty Supply & Perfume Retail industry. See also the company's Products/Operations and Competitors. As a British company, there is no competitive landscape for the Body Shop International, where Hoovers compares the company with its top three public company competitors, its industry and its market—so see the competitive landscape for a competitor, Estee Lauder.
See also Hoovers' factsheet for the Cosmetics, Beauty Supply & Perfume Retail
industry.
A company search for the Body Shop produced a list of over fifty
reports.
A search in this database, in titles, for Body Shop produced no reports; repeating this search in text produced a list of over 100 reports, on a wide variety of sun care and cosmetic products, including a 13-page report on the World Market for Cosmetics & Toiletries, dated September 2002. There is also a 2001 company profile for the Body Shop. There are over 35 reports in this database on the Cosmetics & Toiletries industry.
For information on companies, products, and countries, go to Viewswires.
A search in Viewswires for the Body Shop produced 30 articles.
See Toiletries/Cosmetics; since this database only covers U.S. public companies, the United Kingdom-based Body Shop International is not included.
A search in this database for Cosmetics retrieved 80
tables.
Demographics of purchasers of various cosmetic products (including the Body Shop) may be found under
Personal Care—Hand & Body Cream, Lotion or Oil.
See Investor Relations
for corporate information.
Go to About Us for the company's history and mission statement.
See their Financial Releases for
annual reports back to 1998, interim reports, etc. The company's 2003 Annual Reports and Accounts consists of 46 PDF pages.
See the industry profile for Consumer
Products.
See the brief research page for the Body Shop International as well as their Technical Analysis.
See the Body Shop International.
See his section on Business Ethics and the Body Shop controversy, with
additional articles on this topic.
See Cosmetics and Toiletries on page 445 and Healthcare Products on page 444.
See Cosmetics in table 1007 on page 644 (for sales); table 1254 on page 772 (for advertising expenditures); and table 1284 on page 800 (for foreign trade).
See Cosmetics and Toiletries on page 381 and Healthcare Products on page 315.
See Household Nondurables in volume two (dated July 2003) for references to Personal Care Products including cosmetics. The Body Shop International is not included in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of this survey since it is not a U.S. public company.
See Toiletries and Cosmetics on pages 132 to 140.
See the Body Shop International in volume eleven, pages 40 to 42, with an update in volume 53, pages 69 to 72.
See Cosmetics on page 176; the Body Shop International is not included in the company index.
See Cosmetics on page 148 and the Body Shop on page 380.
See Cosmetics on pages 403 to 412.
See the Body Shop International on page 268.
See volume one, page 881, for the Body Shop International.
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 Body Shop retrieved eleven
records, not all of which referred to the company. Recent books about the company include:
The Body Shop's founder, Anita Roddick, has also written a number of books and appeared in videos but the UW Libraries have none of those titles. Local area public libraries might have some of her books.
Within the Cascade Orbis alliance, WSU has:
There are more books with chapters about The Body Shop
in
the UW Libraries' collections:
A search for the subject Cosmetics Industry retrieved a list of 45 records, just
four
of which were located in the Foster Business Library; three of those four were annual reports.
A keyword search for Cosmetics, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved a list of ten
titles.
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.
This collection does not include annual reports for the Body Shop International though the collection
does include some of the company's competitors, including
Avon,
Colgate-Palmolive,
Estee Lauder,
Federated Department
Stores,
The Gap,
Gillette,
Johnson and
Johnson,
May Department
Stores,
Nordstrom,
Procter & Gamble,
Shiseido, and
Unilever.
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.
A topic search for the company, the Body Shop International PLC, in multiple databases, produced a list of over 300 articles, including over 20 articles in scholarly journals, 25 articles in magazines, over 170 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 80 newspaper articles.
Searches for the CO(Body Shop International PLC) and Competitors produced
16 articles; for CO(Body Shop International PLC) and Suppliers, just five articles; for CO(Body Shop International PLC) and Strategy, over 40 articles.
Four narrowing terms were associated with this company subject:
For research guides on a wide variety of industries,
products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
Need help with writing or revising the written part of your assignment?
The Business Writing
Center, in Lewis Hall 304, provides consultations on business class
writing assignments (as well as cover letters, and resumes) with an
advanced business student trained in critiquing drafts and coaching
writers. Need help citing sources? Try our guide to Citing
Sources.
Finally, if you prepare a research paper, consider submitting it for a $1000 prize. The University Libraries will award prizes for outstanding examples of
undergraduate library research in any discipline and media--print, video,
electronic--completed for a University of Washington course in the 2003-2004 academic year. Up to
three prizes will go to lower-division students (freshman/sophomore), and
three to upper-division students (junior/senior). Details are available online at
http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/.
Prof. Phelps' MGT 430 Webpage
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 2002.
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 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 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
Annual compilation of market share data on U.S., Canadian, and Mexican 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.
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
This annual source provides information about 2,800 foreign firms in 79 countries who operate
over 7,200 businesses in the U.S.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4057 .A155 2002.
This two-volume work covers all companies listed on the New York and American stock exchanges, with
extensive information about companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs,
properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets
for three and two years, respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M67 2003.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics, including many books useful for country research.
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
Limit/Sort feature
to create a list of books in the
Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the
pulldown menu under WHERE item is located to specify Foster Business Library and
click on the box near the bottom Sort results by year. Then click on
Limit/sort items retrieved using above data. 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.
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 or in the Articles: Full Text folder.
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.