Crash Course in Business Research: Industry research
Industry Overview
- Business and Company Resource CenterBusiness & Company Resource Center brings together a variety of global business information. Resources in the database include: company profiles (including corporate parent/sibling relationships), industry ranking, products and brands, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics, corporate chronologies and histories, consumer marketing data, emerging technology reports, industry newsletter news and analysis, and business journal news and analysis.
- BMI ResearchProvides in-depth market research reports on 24 industries and 200 global markets, emphasizing emerging markets. Also provides extensive economic and political risk ratings and analysis, macroeconomic analysis and forecasts, and financial analysis of debt and equity. Also includes profiles for over 500 multinational companies and their subsidiaries, and intra-daily alerts on economic, industrial, and political developments, business deals, multinational joint ventures, and regulatory changes.
- DatamonitorContains data on over 2,000 industries. Industry profiles are available with information on market share, market segmentation, the competitive environment, and market forecasts. Access through Business Source Complete.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowBusiness reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, global industry research, and economic and demographic data.
- LSEG workspace This link opens in a new windowRefinitiv Workspace contains public and private company information for both U.S. and international firms, investment reports, breaking news and economic statistics. It covers a broad range of financial market trends, and includes deals data, private equity/venture capital coverage, and environmental performance information (ESG). After Market Research reports are from well-known investment analyst firms. Refinitiv Workspace provides access to the broadest and deepest coverage of financial data, news, analytics and productivity tools.
- Passport This link opens in a new windowGMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.
- Standard & Poor's netAdvantage This link opens in a new windowCompany information, including market snapshot, company quote, equity indexes page, the Outlook's market insight, S & P stock stock report, economic calendar, economic insight, industry in focus, and Stovall's sector watch. Also includes mutual funds, S&P industry surveys for the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America
- Value Line This link opens in a new windowValue Line provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.
Classification Codes
Industry classification codes allow you to identify, define and categorize industries. You can use them in many databases to find information by industry.
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS): Adopted in the 1990s by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to categorize industries. Replaced the SIC system (see below).
- Standard Industrial Classification (SIC): SIC is a four-digit classification system developed in the 1930's for use by the U.S. federal government. Although still used in some databases, the SIC classification system is no longer being revised.
- International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC): maintained by the U.N. Statistics Division, the ISIC is used in a number of international databases, such as ILO's LABORSTA. Rev.4 is the current version. See link on sidebar at this site to other available classifications.