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 for Zara International;
see
also the link to their parent company, Inditex and to Zara's Competitors.
See also their Competitors.
In addition, see the industry fact sheet for Apparel & Accessories Retail
and the related Industry
Overview.
Go to the tab Market Sector to view reports by industry, and then to Apparel, for many reports, including a report on Womenswear in the USA, dated June 2004. See also the Retail Sector, including a nine-page report on US Clothing and Footwear Retailers, dated September 2004.
See also a retailer profile for Inditex, dated August 2004.
Inditex, parent company of Zara International, is included in this database, with extensive information.
See their Retail (Special Lines) industry, which includes over sixty companies (but not, of course, the Spanish company, Zara).
CD-ROM database:
Demographics of purchasers of various clothing may be found under
Apparel. Zara is not in this database but some of its competitors are. The word Apparel sometimes seems to crash this database.
See Clothing Expenditures on pages 390 and 402 to 403; Clothing Retailers, on pages
427 and 430; Clothing Retail Sales, on page 446.
See index page 952 for tables on Apparel Manufacturing and Apparel Goods.
See Clothing on pages 280 and 287; Clothing Expenditures, pages 240 to 243 and 252
to 253; and Clothing Retail Sales, page 319.
See the industry survey for Retailing: Specialty
in volume three, for Apparel Retail.
See Apparel on pages 970 to 977.
See Zara in volume two, in table 2753, on page 708, on apparel sales in Mexico, and Inditex, in table 2758, on page 709, on leading specialty clothing retailers in Europe.
See Apparel on pages 39 to 71.
See Fashion Clothing demographics on pages 786 to 789, with Seattle-Tacoma area demographics on pages 588 to 589.
See the section on the Retail--Specialty Stores industry, on pages 403 to 408, in the August 2004—January 2005 edition.
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 keyword search for Zara retrieved
numerous irrelevant records; a subject search for this term also produced no relevant results.
The subject term for the apparel industry is Clothing Trade. A search for this subject, limited to
the Foster Business Library, retrieved a list of over forty
records, including:
See also the subject term
Department Stores--United States; a subject search for
this term, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved a list of over thirty
records.
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 2004-2005.
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.
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 2005.
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.
Market analysis information including demographic, geographic and lifestyle
information to identify who customers are, where they live, how they spend their
time and money and how to reach them.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.33 .U6 .L54 2004.
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 (Quarterly)
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.
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 does not include annual reports for Zara or Inditex but does include other companies in the Consumer Product and Retail industries.
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 for CO(Zara), in all databases, produced a list of
Barely more than
35 articles, including five articles in scholarly journals, eight articles in magazines, twelve articles in trade and industry publications, and twelve articles in newspapers, including:
A search for the broader topic of SUB(Retail Stores) produced over 75,000 articles; for SUB(Retailing Industry), over 61,000 articles.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.