Research Guides: FRH 329: Introduction to Business French: Home

Find a French Company

Identify French companies in one of these library databases

Press "Create a company list"
Choose a company type (i.e. parent, subsidiary, etc)
Choose an industry of interest by selecting NACIS look-up *If you do not know or you can't find the NACIS code, reach out to Summer
Under geographic information, press 'edit' & select France
Push 'create' to generate list of companies in a particular industry in France

Add search terms that describe the industry of interest (i.e. consulting)
Press 'search'
Press 'more filter options' on the left-side of results list and look for & select the 'location' filter
Select France from the list of locations to generate a list of company profiles in a particular industry that are located in France

Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides data, statistics, and reports on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Add-ons include: Consumer Insights, providing increased data and analytics on consumer attitudes and behavior worldwide and eCommerce Insights, providing increased data and analytics on the eCommerce landscape including customer behavior and digital market insights.
Morningstar Investing Center This link opens in a new window
Includes three tools: Stock and Fund Selector, Reports, and X-Ray. Use these tools to select stocks or mutual funds, review Morningstar analysis, and determine how your stocks and funds work in an overall investment plan. Coverage: Details not available
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Do a search for news articles and trade journal articles about your company! You can do a search in combination with other terms like: (Company name) AND (strategy OR market OR positioning)
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Do a search for news articles and trade journal articles about your company! You can do a search in combination with other terms like: (Company name) AND (strategy OR market OR positioning)

European Newsstream
includes France 24, Le Monde Interactif, and Public Radio International (PRI)

Type 'France' in Location and click 'search'
You can also select for newspaper and wire feeds, statistics (scroll down under the document type section) as well as French for the language

Browse by Publication Type (or experiment with others)
Type 'France' in Countries
Select a topic if desired (e.g. General News or Business & Management)
Select a category like News or Industries & Markets (folder icon) and keep narrowing down to select subcategories and titles of interest (e.g. News, then Magazines & Journals, and then check all of interest like Le Point, L'Express, Le Figaro)
Click the red button OK- Continue and the filters you've selected are applied and you can do a keyword search

Journaux

Le Monde (quotidien, publié le soir); voir la rubrique “Économie,” l’édition africaine