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How to Use This Page

  • Start by reading the first two sections, Singapore: Overview and Singapore: Articles & News
    • This information is relevant to all students working within Singapore.
  • Research your specific company.
    • Industries are bolded at the top of each section. 
    • Either scroll OR click on the industry in the navigation bar to the left.

Key Considerations:

  • Business databases are bolded and left-aligned.
    • Links bring you to the UBC library's page for the database, where you can connect to the resource.
  • Information sources (e.g. articles, ebooks) are bullet points under the business databases.
    • Some sources are linked, and you can go directly to them.
    • If a source does not have a link, you should go to the relevant business database and search for the title.
    • For example, articles and data sets in Passport GMID cannot be directly linked. To access them, connect to Passport GMID, then search for "Consumer Types in Singapore" (if this is the article you are interested in).
  • Article databases (such as ABI/Inform, Business Source Ultimate) include queries directly underneath in italics.
    • Re-run the query in the database to find the articles we listed and more.
    • Other navigation guidance is also typed in italics directly underneath the relevant database.

Singapore: Overviews

Overviews of the business and economic climate in Singapore, as well as consumer and industrial trends.

Passport GMID

Passport GMID does not provide direct links to their resources.

Access the below reports by pasting the title in the search bar. 

  • Singapore: Consumer Profile
  • Consumer Lifestyles in Singapore
  • Consumer Types in Singapore
  • Consumer Values and Behaviour in Singapore
  • Megatrends in Singapore

Access the below reports by pasting the title in the search bar OR using the "Explore categories" search function. (See screenshot below.)

Report Category
Business Dynamics: Singapore Economies -> Business Dynamics
Commodities: Singapore Economies -> Commodities
PEST Analysis: Singapore Economies -> Economy, Finance and Trade
Economy, Finance and Trade: Singapore Economies -> Economy, Finance and Trade
Households: Singapore Consumers -> Households
Income and Expenditure: Singapore Consumers -> Income and Expenditure
Singapore in 2040: The Future Demographic Consumers -> Population

Screenshot of Passport GMID, with the "Explore categories" search function circled in red.

Other links:

Singapore: Articles & News

Business Source Complete:

Access Business Source Ultimate database, then search using keywords. Alternatively, you can search in specific publications. See below.

Search within Bloomberg Opinion for Singapore (GE Geographic Term). Examples:

ABI/INFORM Collection

Access ABI/INFORM database, then search using keywords. Alternatively, you can search in specific publications. See below.

Search within The Economist for Singapore. Examples:

Search within The Wall Street Journal for Singapore. Examples:

Factiva

Query suggestions: "Business in Singapore" OR (Business AND Singapore); "Singapore AND Politics". Set date to be in the last 3 months. Set region as Singapore. Examples:

Fast Food

Market Information

ABI/INFORM

Query: naics("722513*" ) AND ("business intelligence" OR analytics) AND (software OR digitalization OR technology)

Business Source Ultimate

Passport GMID

Query: Explore categories -> industries -> services -> consumer food service by type -> [select many] -> Singapore -> search

  • Limited-Service Restaurants in Singapore
  • Consumer Foodservice By Location in Singapore
  • Street Stalls/Kiosks in Singapore
  • Market-size: Drive-Through Singapore
  • Market-size: Takeaway Singapore

Statista

  • Report: Fast food industry in Singapore

Building Information Modeling Technology Services

Market Research

BCC Research

  • Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Market: Current and Future Trends

Business Source Ultimate

Query: ("building information model" OR bim) AND software

CB Insights

  • Market: Building information modeling (BIM)

Factiva 

Query: "building information"  AND (model OR modeling) AND (construction OR "real estate"); Region: Singapore; Date: in the last 2 years

Statista

Research AI Query: market information about software for building information modeling in Singapore

  • Market Insights: Construction and Design Software (Region: Singapore)

Competitor Information

Pitchbook

Query: Companies -> type "building information modeling software" into Industries, Verticals, and Keywords -> search

Consulting Services for AI Enterprise Adoption

Company Information

Market Information

ABI/INFORM

Query: ("artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning") AND (adoption AND enterprise) AND naics("5416*" )

BCC Research

  • Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market: Investments vs Potential
  • Global Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market

Business Source Ultimate

Query: ("artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning") AND enterprise AND consulting

eMarketer

  • Virtually all companies want to invest in AI
  • AI spending set to outpace IT budgets in 2025
  • OpenAI’s Orion model faces scaling challenges

Statista

  • Artificial Intelligence: in-depth market analysis
  • Rate of adoption and deployment of artificial intelligence in enterprise in Singapore in 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Singapore - statistics and facts

WARC

Query: strategy -> case finder -> filter by keyword: "artificial intelligence" and "consulting" -> find cases

Nanofiber Products

Market Information

ABI/INFORM

Query: nanofiber AND (environment* OR sustainab*)

Query: nanofiber AND recycl*

BCC Research

  • Global Markets and Technologies for Nanofibers

Business Source Ultimate

MarketResearch.com

  • Global Filters

Statista

Research AI query: "market research for the nanofiber industry"

  • Market value projection of nanofiltration membranes worldwide in 2019 and 2024
  • Market value of nanofiber products worldwide in 2018 and 2023

Social Media Platform

Market Information

Business Source Ultimate

Query: "social commerce" AND (trend OR challenge OR strateg* OR opportunit*)

CB Insights

  • Market: livestream e-commerce
  • Market: social commerce enablement tech

eMarketer

Top navigation bar: ecommerce -> social commerce

  • TikTok Shop propels social commerce growth in 2024
  • Latin America Retail Ecommerce and Digital Buyer Trends in 2024
  • Monthly Frequency With Which Shoppers Worldwide Make a Purchase via Social Media, 2021-2024 (% of respondents)

Factiva

Statista

  • Social commerce as percentage of total e-commerce worldwide from 2018 to 2028
  • Report: Social commerce in Singapore

Query: "social commerce"; refine location to Central and South America

  • Most used social media platforms to make purchases in Brazil as of February 2023
  • Leading categories sold through social networks in Colombia as of Q2 2024

Consumer Insights E-Commerce

To reach this page, click on "Insights" from the top navigation bar, then "Explore Consumer Insights." Under the search bar and beside "popular topics," click on "e-commerce."

  • "Social media and social commerce" category

Wood Pallet, Case, and Crate Manufacturer

Market Information

ABI/INFORM

naics("32192*" ) AND waste

Query: naics("32192*" ) AND crate

Business Source Ultimate

Query: (wood OR timber) AND (manufactur* OR product) AND waste

Passport GMID

  • Forestry, Wood and Paper Global Industry Overview

Statista

  • Industrial production index for wood and cork products in Singapore from 2014 to 2023
  • Market Insights: Wood (Region: Singapore)

UBC Library Home

Query: wood AND manufactur* AND "waste management"

Query: wood AND manufactur* AND crate