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Industry

Journals, News, & Magazine Articles
Directories, Guides, & Manuals
Industry Overviews
Ratios
Statistics

 

Journals, News, & Magazine Articles

Business & Company Resource Center

A database that combines the many Gale publications on company information, brand & product information, as well as extensive industry information including rankings, market share and essays.

Business & Industry

B&I is a broad-based business information database. It is international in scope and covers important facts and figures, and events occurring in all manufacturing and service industries.  Information is selected from over 1,000 leading US and international trade journals, general business publications, newsletters, and national, and regional newspapers covering events and news from more than 190 countries around the world. Approximately 60% of the references include the full text of the articles.

Lexis - Nexis Academic- Industry & Market News

LEXIS®-NEXIS®Academic is a full text database containing primarily legal, business, and newspaper sources.  Search for news items on over 25 different industry areas.

Promt

Multi-industry database providing international coverage of companies, products, markets, and technologies.  PROMT includes over 1,000 trade and business journals; industry newsletters; business articles from local, regional, national, and international newspapers and business journals, market research studies, government publications, corporate news releases, and abstracts of Investext reports.

Tablebase

TableBase is an international database that specializes exclusively in tabular data dealing with companies, industries, products and demographics. Tables cover market share, rankings,forecasts, shipments, output, consumption, users, exports, imports, capacity and more. Tables are from a range of sources including trade and business publications, investment research, trade associations, statistical annuals, primary research, international organizations and government.  Over 25,000 tables are added per year. For tables from the trade and business press and reports, full text is available along with tables, in most cases.

Yahoo: Industry List

 

Directories, Guides, & Manuals

Associations Unlimited

Business.com

IndustryLink

SIC Code & NAICS Code Conversion Tables

Online comparison between the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification Manual and the 1997 North American Industrial Classification System.

SIC Code Manual

Online, searchable version of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987.

Yahoo: Business to Business Industry List

Industry Overviews

Business Week: Industry Outlook 2000
Business Week: Industry Outlook 2001
Business Week: Industry Outlook 2002
Business Week: Industry Outlook 2003
Business Week: Industry Outlook 2004
Business Week: Industry Outlook 2005


Corporate Information

Company Information metasite that provides access to analyse reports, company capsules, Country and Industry related information as well as tools to determine exchange rates, company 'extensions', and researching by state.

Current Industrial Reports(CIR)

Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook

Investext PlusInvestext Plus brings together some of the world's most sought-after investment research and industry analysis in one easy-to-use product accessible on the Internet.

Net Advantage (S&P's) Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage contains the following sources of information: S&P Bond Guides, Earnings Guide, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, Mutual Funds, S&P Outlook, Register of Corporations, Executives, & Directors, S&P Stock Guide and Stock Reports.

Market Research Monitor This database contains 850 consumer market and retail briefings which include a comprehension introduction to a product or market that covers key trends and developments, market background, market/sector sizes, forecasts and shares, main players, major company profiles, and future trends. Data includes a three year archive and monthly updates.

Market Insight (S&Ps)Market Insight delivers Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, Corporate Action information, Business Descriptions, Executive Compensation data, Recent News stories, Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, DRI Country Overviews, CIA WorldFactbook Statistics, COMPUSTAT Financials, and more. MI offers a full suite of informative reports, with links between industry peers for fast comparisons, and links to country-level economic data. Users can screen for companies that meet key financial and market criteria. 

U.S. Global Trade Outlook 1995-2000 Assessment of America's place in the global economy by highlighting growth and trade trends in key countries and sectors. Projections are based on publicly available forecasts for the U.S. economy.

Industry Ratios

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
Key Business Ratios
Mergent's Industry Review
RMA Annual Statement Studies

Statistics
CBS Marketwatch: Industry List

Census of Manufactures Final Industry Series
Organized by SIC Group number the full-text of the U.S. Bureau of Census' reports on specific manufacturing industries.

Census of Wholesale Trade The U.S. Bureau of Census monthly estimates of sales and inventories of wholesale trade industries.

Current Industrial Reports: Manufacturing Full-text industrial reports and past manufacturing profiles for 1994 - 96. Available in PDF format.

Current Industrial Reports: Service Full-text industrial reports on a variety of service industries. Available in PDF format.

Fortune: Fortune 500

WEFA Industrial Monitor

 

Last update: March 10, 2008

Prepared by: Hal P. Kirkwood Jr. kirkwood@purdue.edu