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COMM270 Intro to Public Relations

Please use this guide to help you find resources for your Corporate Reputation Analysis assignment. Some of these resources are freely available on the web and others are subscriptions through the library. You will get the fullest picture of your company brand and reputation by visiting all of these resources.

Good luck with your research and feel free to contact me if you need more help!

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Free Resources

Fortune 500
Click on the company name to see what information is available for you here. Also, make a note of the ticker symbol for your company. This information may come in handy later! Hint: Walmart's is WMT.
Reputation Institute
You won't have access to everything on this website, but there's still a lot you can get for free. You can find research on your company by clicking on Research and Events in the top banner.

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To access the reports, you must fill out a free registration form first.
YouGov BrandIndex
Lots of brand rankings and information here. Search for your company name in the top right search box.

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Some reports are freely available and you can find several report summaries.

Databases with Company Information

Business Source Premier
For information and news about your company, click on Company Profiles at the top of the page. Then search for your company name. You will find information by clicking on the company name and in the Marketline report pdf.

Business Source Complete (BSC) provides full text for more than 8,800 serials. BSC provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Subjects include: all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Searching Specific Newspapers & Journals

The Attached Document will help you access articles from specific newspapers and journals.

You must consult:

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal

Other suggested sources:

AdWeek
Advertising Age

Searching in a Journal

Marketing Research Database

Mintel Reports
Try typing your company name into this database. If that doesn't work, try typing in your company's industry type. For instance, type in beverages if Coca Cola doesn't work. Mintel offers reports, surveys and data about consumers, markets, and brands.

These market research reports now cover approximately 54 countries and 22 industries. The reports cover a variety of sectors including consumer goods, travel and tourism, financial industry, internet industry, retail, and food and drink. Reports discuss market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. One can use the drop down box in the upper right to choose a country or select all countries before entering a search term.

Tip: Academic library licenses for Mintel do not permit 'single-click' downloading of entire reports: report sections may be saved or printed out section-by-section, or multiple sections (from different reports) may be saved into the 'report basket' and saved from there as a single merged file.

COMM270 Intro to Public Relations: Home

In Reputations We Trust (click the image below to read the Shandwick article)