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Introduction

This guide helps those who are looking to do research on industries. The resources listed here provides information for US and international industries. Most of the resources provide the information for a large industry because the small industry is primarily part of the large industry. Small industries have a smaller audience, limited resource options and smaller users. The best way to find the information of a small industry is to either search by their industry classification code or check the bigger industry. For more information see Federal Depository Academy Training Repository report: IsThere An Industry Report For That? Market & Industry Research

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Database

BMI Research-FitchConnect
Provides 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.
EMIS
EMIS provides full-text news, financial and economic information on emerging market countries in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, East, South and Southeast Asia, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus, Africa and Middle East.
IBIS World
Business reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, global industry research, and economic and demographic data.
LSEG workspace--Refinitiv workspace
LSEG fromerly known Refinitiv Workspace contains public and private company information for both U.S. and international firms, investment reports, breaking news and economic statistics.
Passport
An online market research tool that monitors industry trends and gives strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for all products across all key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world.
Procurement research reports : make better purchasing decisions, faster
Procurement research reports cover a multitude of indirect purchasing lines. These detailed reports, ranging from 15-20 pages, cover product/service pricing dynamics, product characteristics that affect the purchasing decision, supplier benchmarking and supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.
Standard & Poor's netAdvantage
Company 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
Value Line provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds
Value Line. Investment survey--historical reports
The Value Line investment survey--historical reports contain backfiles with information on industries, the stock market, and the economy. The reports date back to 1998 and are made accessible in PDF format.