Welcome to the Bronfman Business Library's Retail Research Guide. This guide will serve as a starting point when researching resources on a retail-related topics.
Industry Information
- Links to industry reports on the web.
- Links to retail associations and organisations in Canada and abroad
- Recommended library databases for retail industry research
- Canadian government information for retail businesses
Companies and Competitors
- Directories to Canadian retail companies
- Rankings of retail companies in Canada and abroad
- Library databases for searching retail company information and creating lists of competitors
Articles - Trade, Scholarly and Popular
- Recommended databases for locating retail-related articles
- Links to specific retail journals - both scholarly and trade.
- A Harvard Business Review widget to search for articles in HBR
Statistics/Data
- Databases for retail statistics
- Links to retail statistics in Canada, United States and internationally
Sector-Specific Information​
- Resources for research into the luxury goods sector
- Resources for research into the online retail sector
Consumers - Markets and Behaviour
- A page from the Bronfman Marketing Research Guide with resources for research on consumer expenditure and buying patterns
History of Retail
- Library databases for scholarly history articles and company histories
- Suggested subject headings and searches to locate books on the history of retail in the library catalogue
- Links to websites and databases for primary sources for the history of retail such as company documents, advertising and newspapers.
- Suggested fonds in the Clara Thomas Archives related to the history of retail in southern Ontario
