Graduate Research: Company and Industry Links
Business and Company Research Links
Business Search Engines/Directories
Miscellaneous Research Sources
Tutorials on How to Do Industry Research
Government, Economic and Industry Reports, Statistics and Data Searches
Business and Company Research Links
Business Search Engines/Directories
The Corporate Library Inyernational corporate governance research. The Corporate Library is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and shareholders. Most general content on the site is open to visitors at no cost; advanced research relating to specific companies and certain other advanced features are restricted to subscribers only.
Wall Street Executive Library - Company & Industry Research One of the best directories with 3 search vehicles was created for business research in the areas of Current Events, Finance, Stocks, Economic Trends, Demographics, Marketing, Industry Research and other company and market specific information. The main site is divided into 3 Pages, and 16 sections (over 1050 links in total), with additional topic sub-sections that contain a more comprehensive set of links.
Pubs BPubs.com is a directory based Internet search engine that strives to cover the topic of Business Publications. By eliminating the noise of “homepages, index pages, and other extraneous web site components”, our users are able to extract what they truly searching for – content. Our target audience of corporate and business users will become repeat visitors because we save them time finding the information they need.
Corporate Information One of best directories for company and industry information. Ideal for industry research. For industries begin by clicking on US sectors then proceed with industry index. This site serves as a wonderful starting point for company-related research. In addition to pointing researchers to sources of information about public companies, it shows researchers where to find information about private and foreign businesses. Enter a company name. The site does the initial research for you!Looksmart.com for business - Free and fee based services for small and medium size business. It's company Zeal.Com is a community of enthusiasts and editors building the world's most widely used Web directory.
Northernlights Business and Industry Search Engine The most elaborate business and industry search engine on the Internet. Do not miss this one.
Small Biz Planet.Com - "We hunt through thousands of business websites
and find the best sources on the internet for the entrepreneur. Our in-depth
search engine indexes only these sites, then we search the articles' text for
your keywords, so you don't have to worry about complicated searching and
irrelevant results. Easy access to the best information."
Globalbiz
Directory Excellent business search engine that allows a search by SIC
number. Contains enormous left index (try "search central.".)
All Business Directory powered by Comfind. Very elaborate indexed directory for business. Small business specialists.
Bird-Online UK British business and industry specific search engine, excellent for finding industry trends globally as well as international companies and their websites.
Dialog Open Access Certainly the best search possible, as most of it's products are fee based. However, many searches are free.
Worldpost Worldpost, related to Business Research Interests. Unique search engine for technology especially eCommerce. Many of the links in left index do not work.
iTools
Unique search process. "Research it" finds: phone numbers,
addresses, stock quotes,
package tracking, and "Find it" is using the finest Internet search
tools assembled together in one place
US Census Bureau Factfinder US Census Bureau American Fact Finder. Excellent approach to search for all types of industry and business data. Try "industry and business facts" and "search factfinder" in the index.
Industrylink – Research Industries - Industrylink search engine, Canada and US could be very useful, sets three parameters of search criteria.
Forbesfinder Search engine business – Forbes Finder searches Forbes.com and the web with emphasis on business and finance.
Expoguide A unique concept search engine.
Findlaw Search engine for lawyers and legal topics and issues
FDIC Search of Banks FDIC search engine for information on banks.
Agriculture
Business Directory - A listing of companies and consultants in the
agriculture and food service industry, searchable by Name, Geographic Location,
Agriculture Category, and Business Description.
CEO
Express Business Research Express
Research is an information-packed resource designed to save executives time by
providing highly edited Internet content carefully developed by our crack
cybrarians. On these pages you will find sources and special tips for finding
the best, most relevant information as quickly as possible. Featured in
the Biz Research Center are special knowledge centers focused around areas of
particular interest to executives, including: General
Reference Competitive
Intelligence Geopolitical
Financial
Instruments Knowledge
Management Marketing/Demographics
Small Business
FindArticles by LookSmart is extremely valuable for article searches. And likewise MagPortal does very much the same.
SEC Filings & Annual Reports
PWC Edgarscan PriceWaterhouseCoopers offers this excellent way to work with SEC Filings. For example, get the financial statements in Excel spreadsheet format. Plus much more
Lycos Company Research Formerly CompaniesOnline, Lycos now provides a
simple search interface to public company filings with
EdgarOnline.
Business
Filings Databases
LLRX.com offers this annotated
compilation of state corporate information databases for all 50 states.
The Annual Reports Service World Investor Link partners with several companies to provide copies of annual reports. We link this page as a recommended starting point. Select a channel partner to begin the search for annual reports. Note that different partners offer different reports, delivery services, and finding tools.
Report Gallery This site offers an index to annual reports for many fortune 500 companies. Browse the alphabetical index to locate a company of interest. The link takes you directly to the company's Web site where the annual report appears. It further offers links to the respective stock exchanges for current quote information. Report Gallery also sports a search feature, but it failed each time I tried it. It further interfaces with Zacks (annotated below) to provide company and industry reports for a fee.
Annual Report Service 2250 annual reports, or links to the page on company websites which give access to SEC 10Ks and annual reports
Hoover's Ten K Wizard Easier than the Edgar Search, but must take care to set the date range and click to determine ticker symbol or company name search. I can't seem to get it to work properly.
The Corporate Library This site offers a vast array of information about companies including news briefs with a searchable archive, employment contracts extracted from a company's EDGAR filings, officer and director biographies, shareholder proposals, articles on corporate issues, and more. Read a CEO's employment agreement and discover which public companies employ(ed) him/her.
General Corporate Information for Investors
Hoover's Online Find company and industry information, including brief business descriptions, executive biographies, competitors, news, and more.
Dun & Bradstreet Reports Find business credit reports. Search by company name and location, DUNS number, executive name or telephone number.
Merrill Lynch Online Register free to obtain a 30-day trial to Merrill Lynch's online access to its investment analyst reports. Find many here you cannot find via Investext or Multex.
Goldman Sachs Research On Demand Search Goldman Sachs investment reports at no charge. Receive abstracts free, too! Retrieving entire reports requires a subscription.
Lexis/Nexis Find analyst reports, company profiles, information about mergers and acquisitions, and more. Try the Company Library.
Dow Jones Interactive Check out the Company & Industry Center. It offers Investext and Multex analyst reports and commentary, financial snapshots and profiles of public companies, and company or industry comparison reports. Obtain historical stock quotes from the Historical Market Data Center. The vendor enhanced company information to include contact information, business description, performance, hotlinked competitors, current stock quote, hotlinked current headlines, and links to other relevant information.
Wall Street City In addition to offering investment market news and commentary, Wall Street City provides an interface to researching public companies. Enter a ticker symbol to retrieve one of many available reports. To search by other data like company name or industry, click on Quotes or Portfolio in the top menu and then follow the link for "symbol."
Wall Street Net This site offers a number of useful databases including Done Deals, Deals in Registration, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Done Deals offers information about deals exceeding $50 million during the past year. Deals in Registration offers information about deals in registration during the past 90 days. Mergers & Acquisitions provides information about the same for deals exceeding $50 million.
Wall Street Research Net Wall Street Research Net pulls together a number of resources for discovering information about public companies. Find a company's home page, public securities filings, trading information, news, patents, and more. For a charge, obtain trading details and history, financial statements, and detailed research reports.
Business.com Company Center Find company profiles, executives, news, and financial information for public and private U.S. companies.
North American Fund Info Service World Investor Link partners with several companies to provide copies of mutual fund annual reports. Explore several partner sites in your search for annual reports to locate a format that suits your needs. Some sites like The Wall Street Journal provide only paper copies while others offer various electronic formats as well as paper.
Investment Advisor Public Disclosure Database The Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators make information about investment advisor firms available. Search by full or partial company name, IARD/CRD number or SEC number to find a business' primary name, alternate names, IARD/CRD number, SEC number, address, and a link to its Form ADV (application for investment advisor registration). The application then discloses additional useful information; for example, whether the business has assets under management of $25 million or more, its state of incorporation, number of employees, number of clients, and more.
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada The 5th edition (1997), prepared for the Society of American Archivists, is available in full text at no charge. It offers contact information for researching the archival records of companies in the U.S. and Canada.
Kompass Kompass, publisher of information about companies worldwide, offers select information for free at this site. Search products, services, company names, and brands to find basic company information. Look for bolded company names in the search results list to find free corporate profiles. These may include basic contact information as well as the year the business was established, number of employees, office hours, VAT number, registered number, board members, executives, key financials (sometimes including bank name and account number), trade names, and product/service categories.
The Public Register In addition to assisting researcher's looking for company home pages, financial information, and research reports, The Public Register provides free copies of annual reports. Researchers must order them, but there is no charge.
Quicken.com Investments Enter a public company's name or symbol to discover trading information, news, state of incorporation, market capitalization, number of outstanding shares, number of institutional shareholders, income, sales, assets, and more. Also learn details about insider trading at companies. (Discover what Gates is trading at Microsoft or Bezos at Amazon.com.)
SkyMinder.com SkyMinder offers public and private company profiles, financial data for public companies, news, and market information. Search the company and news databases for free after registering at the site. Purchase individual documents as needed. Opening an account with the site provides members with additional information concerning European, US and worldwide companies and business industries. Sources include Hoovers, Dun & Bradstreet, Knight Ridder and other media.
500s
Inc. 500 Inc.com offers a list of the 500 fastest growing private companies. Data includes company name, location, brief description, Web site, industry, revenue and number of employees.
Forbes 500 Largest Private Companies Discover basic financials about the 500 top private companies in the United States. The site also links to home pages and provides address information as well as the name of the CEO.
Franchise 500 Entrepreneur Magazine offers a database containing information from its 21st Annual Franchise 500. Find franchises and their rankings, street and Web addresses, business description as well as an annual breakdown of the number of units owned since 1997, information about where they seek to franchise, financial information, and contact information.
The Interactive 500 Interactive Week offers this annual list of companies with Web operations. It ranks the companies by revenue. The resource also provides an overview of the economic health of the industry.
Funding and Financial
Business Funding Directory - Business funding and capital search tool
Financialweb
One of the best business search engines/directories.. It gives you the ownership
structure in the information.
Business Finance.Com Business Funding Directory - Business funding and capital search tool
IPO.com Venture Capital Find a database of profiles for emerging companies and their venture investors. Click on "advanced search" to find useful search criteria including searching by U.S. region or zip code, foreign country, number of employees, investment state, and more. The advanced feature also provides for browsing the database. Profiles include company contact information, industry sectors, brief business description, year business started, type (e.g., public or private), stage of development, investment amount, investor, and management team profiles (i.e., name, email, phone, education).
Associations, Charities, Nonprofits and others
Gateway to Associations The American Society of Association Executives offers this database of links to associations with Web sites. Search these organizations by full or partial name.
Internet Nonprofit Center Discover information about not-for-profit entities with this resource. Search by company name and location to find such information as FEIN, IRS activities, assets, income, and more. The site also offers information about doing business as a non-profit. Learn about applicable federal laws, writing grants, recruiting volunteers, telemarketing, and more. Discover scads of resources.
IPL Associations on the Net The Internet Public Library offers a database of associations. Search by keyword, or browse the collection by subject. Entries include the name of the association, a brief description, and a link to it.
Foundation Finder The Foundation Center offers this free tool for locating foundations. Researchers must know at least part of a foundation's name to use it. Elsewhere on the site, find information about more extensive grant research products like The Foundation Directory Online.
National Charities Information Bureau The National Charities Information Bureau (NCIB) promotes wise giving to charitable organizations. In this regard, it created, and offers via its Web site, Standards in Philanthropy, with interpretations. For business researchers, the site offers information about whether a charity meets theses standards. A form exists for ordering copies of reports. The site also features one charity per week and provides a portion of its report.
GuideStar Discover basic information about charitable organizations. Learn their assets, income, FEIN, funding and activities. The site also features an advertisements database offering services such as volunteering and financial resources. GuideStar also offers a charities form 990 database
BBB & Fraud
The Better Business Bureau offers business and charity reports databases. The business reports database currently contains reports for businesses in select jurisdictions. It's a great way to learn something about private companies if the company does business in one of the select locations.
Fraud Bureau This site offers news, commentary, and information pertaining to Internet-related fraud. Find a database of consumer complaints, which you can search by company name, ISP, or Web address. Read the latest scam and virus alerts. Browse a directory of consumer information sources, where you can learn about anti-spam laws and products, consumer information organizations, and more. Also find glossaries of investment, virus, and Internet-related terms.
Industry or Focused Information
Business Boneyard Hoover's Online offers a collection of company profiles on businesses that no longer exist. This content is available only to paid subscribers.
Business CreditUSA.com Obtain low-cost business credit reports for public and private U.S. companies. Reports include company name, address, names of select executives, phone, fax, credit rating, number of employees, ticker symbol, SIC code(s), competitors, and news headlines. The site also promises to add data about tax liens, bankruptcies, and judgments soon. Additional features include public opinion and the ability to monitor changes to any company.
CIA World Factbook - For Foreign Country
Information
Contracting
Organizations Research Institute
This University of Missouri research program offers a digital collection of
contracts obtained primarily from public company filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Search the collection by keyword for merger and acquisition
agreements, employment contracts, leases, joint ventures and other contractual
documents. The site also offers a special "guided search" for building complex
queries.
Zephus This site offers a database of information about deals involving European companies (since August 1997) and United Kingdom companies (since January 1999). Search by company name, advisor, industry, deal type, time period, or country; or create more complex queries using advanced search features. Data returned includes deal type, dates of announcement and expected completion, target company (including country and industry), bidder company (including country and parent info), vendor, and comments. This is a free database that requires registration. Zephus also offers an email alert service for tracking the activities of certain companies.
Price's List of Lists Gary Price offers this excellent compilation of resources that rank companies, people, or other groups.
Manufacturing
Thomas Global Register This site now incorporates both American Export Register and Thomas Global Register. Find information about importers and exporters.
MNI Database Manufacturers News, Inc. offers a database of information about U.S. manufacturers. To conduct a cost-free search, follow the link for Standard Search. Select the industry, location, or keyword you want to search. Then select how you wanted the resulted sorted (by company name, city, state, or zip code). Free information includes the name and location of the manufacturer, SIC code, number of employees, and annual sales.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Use this resource to find U.S. and Canadian companies and their brands. The site allows searching by company name, product or service, or brand name. It provides business name and address and, for several companies, an online catalog and link to the company's web site. There is no charge to use this site.
Thomas Register of European Manufacturers Similar to its North American counterpart -- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers -- this directory provides basic information about European manufacturers and their products and brands.
Agriculture Business Directory Agriculture Business Directory - A listing of companies and consultants in the agriculture and food service industry, searchable by Name, Geographic Location, Agriculture Category, and Business Description.
Sites With Articles on Management and Business
Institute of Management and Administration Massive site with over 1000 pages of management articles. Searchable and many free.
Scout Report for Business and Economics University of Wisconsin provides this exceptional web library of articles and newsletters about business and economics for faculty, students, staff, and librarians.. Search over 9,000 full text articles. The nearest thing to a real library with full text documents on the net.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge On-line publication with excellent business articles. Free registration required.
Knowledge - Wharton School Same as above for Wharton
Free Management Library Free Management Library. Enormous collection of free management articles with full text and links to articles on other sites. Essentially a survey management course. Very comprehensive, a must.
Strategyweb Strategyweb - The best source for information on strategic management and strategy issues and topics.
Competia.com Comprehensive website for strategic competitive intelligence
Sookoo.com Business Strategy search engine with links to a great collection of resources in strategy and strategic management. Numerous articles, information on people like Porter and Ansoff and much more.
Click on the CELCEE Clearinghouse Database which has thousands of abstracts of reports and articles on various topics in entrepreneurship.
Strategy - Excellent Articles: Acton | Arthur Andersen | Bain & Company | Booze Allen Hamilton | McKinsey | Wharton
Strategy - Think Tanks: Brookings Institute | Cato | Heritage Foundation | National Academies | National Center for Policy Analysis | Rand Corporation
Strategy Consultant's Tools: Case Studies: What Works | Project Management Tools
AdFlip a database of print advertisements! Search by keyword, brand, or company name to find classic print advertisements. Initial search results display a thumbnail sketch of the ad. Clicking on it, produces a larger image of the page on which the ad appeared along with product name, company, and issue date. The database covers 1940 to present.
WetFeet.com This recruiting services site offers brief profiles of public and private companies. Find a company's basic contact information, key facts (typically useful to job seekers), revenue, one-year growth rate, number of employees, and brief business description. Each entry comes with its own date and time stamp indicating the timeliness of the information. A "comparison tables" feature may also reveal a company's position relative to a select group of peers.
Marketresearch.com Kalorama Information, LLC, publisher and distributor of market research reports, offers a search interface to its studies as well as to Findex and MarketLooks. MarketLooks provides brief (10 to 15 pages) analyses of industries. Findex, by FIND/SVP, is a database of abstracted industry reports by FIND/SVP. Search by keyword. Keywords may encompass company names. Researchers receive abstracts free of charge and may order full-text reports via the site. Accessing Findex summaries requires a paid subscription, but visitors may search it free of charge.
Zapdata Discover basic company information, annual sales, number of employees, ownership type, and more. Other features at the site enable the creation of lists for marketing purposes. For example, I created a list of psychiatric hospitals located in the Denver and Salt Lake City metropolitan areas. Also create reports by industry. These include market size statistics, market analysis by company size, by state, by metro area, or by specialty.
Vault Reports Need insider information on companies or law firms? Check this Web site. Using information from associate surveys and inside contacts, the Vault Reports publishes detailed information about a firm’s history, practice areas, major clients, recent deals and cases, hiring and interviewing process, compensation, culture, hours, perks, treatment by partners and more. Currently, it offers reports on approximately 50 of largest law firms nationwide. Like information exists for companies in the high-tech, energy, finance, healthcare, management consulting, marketing, and media/entertainment industries. Researchers order reports via a secure server. Lengthy excerpts appear on the Web site at no charge.
Sales and Marketing Executives Library Sales and Marketing Executives marketing library. Collections of links and searches for marketing. In left margin try "breaking stats" "power search" and "useful."
iMarketing.com SIC number finder. Type is business type and it gives you the 2 or 4 digit SIC numbers. Useful.
Library Guide to Researching Market Share One of the best guides available for finding a companies market share.
Advertising - University of Texas University of Texas ultimate set of marketing communications links.
Thomas Regional Industrial Suppliers One of the best ways to determine competitors for industrial/manufacturing firms. Execute a search with a client's name, a product or industrial process or a brand name. Find the firm you are looking for, then search for all others in southern California. Select the businesses that are in cities within a set market radius and you have a list of competitors with addresses and in many cases company advantage information.
Fuld and Company Competitive Intelligence Website Click on "CI Strategies and Tools," as well as "Intelligence Pyramid."
IS World eCommerce Resources The best resources on the Internet for eBusiness eCommerce. A must.
Business Research Interests Business Research Interests. An exceptional site for technology topics and issues, education and research.
TechAgreements.com It in own words, "TechAgreements is a research tool for those looking for model legal forms and competitive information on publicly disclosed deals in the Internet, Computer and Telecom industries." Search by company name or keyword, or browse agreements by industry. The site offers a brief summary of the agreement including the date it was signed and number of pages. You pay per agreement to access the full-text. TechAgreements.com helpfully supplies a line item for entering billing references.
eBusiness Forum.com A Web site of The Economist Intelligence Unit, ebusinessforum.com offers several goodies to researchers interested in the electronic business practices of companies doing business abroad. Find a "Doing ebusiness in ..." database that provides current news, market profiles, ebusiness rankings, and more. The market profiles include information about a country's business-related taxes, laws and regulations, infrastructure, ebusiness marketplace, and economy.
Dotcom Scoop Launched during December 2000, Dot.com Scoop provides a source of rumors and news about dot com failures, lay-offs, lawsuits, and other issues.
Line56 29 May 2001. Line56 offers various products and services for the business-to-business e-commerce market. Researchers looking for hard to find information about private B2B companies may want to start here. Line56's B2B Company Directory helps you find businesses by B2B category. It also occasionally profiles businesses in the directory. Profiles offer a brief business description, press releases, contact information, business status (e.g., private), number of employees, and the names and positions of people in management.
B2B Finance tracks the current B2B stock market and offers profiles of B2B public companies. Profiles offer a brief business description, ticker symbol, current stock market performance, press releases, articles from Line56 Magazine, contact information, business status (e.g., public), number of employees, and the names and positions of people in management. Finally, B2B Research offers analyst and research reports related to the B2B market.
Whonami Enter a domain name -- with or without the TLD (com, org, net, etc) -- or an IP address to find out who owns the domain. This engine searches across several Whois databases including those outside of the U.S. Unlike BetterWhois, it also queries .edu and .gov domains.
Company and Industry Research Tutorials with Links
Deb Flanagan's Tutorial in Business Research An individual prepared this tutorial on company and industry research. Makes some good points.
Kent State University Ohiolink.edu Company and Industry Research Tutorial An excellent tutorial with links, directions and definitions to research companies and industries. An index at the top of page links the researcher to company and industry tutorials. Start with "Search Strategies" for an excellent overview of the process.
Internetlawyer "How to Research Companies on the Web" A comprehensive and well organized collection of links from telephone yellow pages, to government documents for researching companies.
Corporate Watch "Research Corporations" Very sophisticated set of research links
Library Guide to Company and Industry Research Company and Industry Research Guide and Tutorial
Jacksonville State University Library Business and Industry Links
Search Engine Tutorials Search Engine Watch tutorials. Easy to read guides which compare search engines, tell how they work and teach the researcher to use advanced searches.
Spireproject Very good Australian tutorial for research including company, industry and statistical.
Executive
Library.com Best set of business links.
Miscellaneous Research Sources
Businesswire.com Research business news and headlines - Excellent place to start for researching all news stories about a company
American Community Network American Community Network criteria based search, tools maps data and professional advice on moving business to a community. This is the ideal site for researching population and demographic data on counties in the US.
Inland Empire Economic Partnership Economic and demographic facts, statistics and information about the Inland Empire area of southern California, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
L. A. Times 100 List and ranking of the biggest, most profitable and most exciting California companies.
California
Census Research Data Center California censuses and surveys of
business establishments and firms censuses and surveys of households and
individuals.
Locate California State
resource to assist companies in moving and locating in California.
Contains some economic and regional data.
Worldwide Governments on the WWW This is a wonderful data base for your future use. Select your favorite foreign country and click on it. Tell us some vital information about that country. I have found this quite useful.
CEO Express Desktop I have set this as my home page or "desktop". It contains all the business reference links a busy CEO would need for every facet of Internet business and break-time. It's "Advanced Search" provides one of the fastest and best meta search engines (searches other major search engines) I have found. Most importantly, one can add personal links to all favorite websites.
University of Michigan Library "Statistics on the Internet" Click on "Business and Industry" in the left index and scan down massive set of links leading mostly to statistical sources.
Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg is an international news and information organization. The company
provides news, data and analysis to the business community and media
outlets. Get up-to-date information on US and international financial
markets.
Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/
Fortune
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/
Prentice Hall Management Links Collection
All Business Network
Allyn & Bacon
Blackwell Publishers
The Dryden Press
Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates
Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Houghton Mifflin
Irwin McGraw-Hill
Jossey-Bass Inc.
McGraw-Hill
Prentice Hall
Primis Custom Publishing
Sage
South-Western College Publishing
Thompson Publishing Group
Wiley College
Even with the great stuff I can find on the Internet, still the very best sources on industry dynamics, changes, market share, and trends will be found in the hard copies of the following four sources. After you have searched the Internet with the links below, you will need to visit your closest big library. Yes, I'm afraid it is extremely important. My favorite of these four is Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys. (Not S&P stock reports or corporate records!)
Tutorials on How to Do Industry Research:
Exceptional article on sources of Industry Research. Not to be missed, contains links to numerous sources. Provides advice on developing a research strategy. Short and thorough.
Try Researching an Industry for the very best set of information on how to conduct industry research on the internet and in libraries. It contains links to many other valuable sources.Ohiolink.Edu A website for state universities in Ohio provides an excellent tutorial in industry research, from understanding industry structure to using statistics. This is a good place to start.
University of Pittsburg Guide to company and industry research.
The Spire Project - Industry Research (Australia) International perspective on research. A complete tutorial. Much of it refers to US government sources listed below.
Using Vertical B2B Community Websites:
VerticalNet.com is one of the top three B2B vertical markets or communities. Net Market Makers is a large B2B portal. Line56.Com - Research is one of the largest B2B portals.
(Best Source) Hoovers.com Master Industry List is exhaustive. Each link will take the researcher to a list of companies in that industry, and each specific company will link to its profile. Hoovers Industry Snapshots provides quick data on numerous industries. Also Hoovers Industry Channel consists of 28 sectors which encompass more than 300 industries. Each company in our database is assigned an industry code based on its primary source of revenue. From our company capsules, the Industry List, and the Sectors, you can peruse the related descriptions, analyses, news, industries, snapshots, and company lists.
University of Virginia SIC Number Look Up One should always begin by knowing the Industry standard industrial classification number.Find an SIC number first - iMarket Inc. a marketing software on-line site provides a most helpful SIC number finder. Key in keywords which best describe a business and the finder gives you the 2 or 4 digit SIC numbers.
Then use that SIC number to research an industry - Globalbiz Directory is a precision business directory of over 10.7 million company profiles, as well as excellent business search engine that allows a search by SIC number. The left business resource index contains some useful items try "search central."
(Best Source) Best source on this page!! US Business Reporter - Industry Reports provides about 56 mega-industries e.g. entertainment. Contents of the report are organized around the following topics: Industry Overview, Environment, Issues, Trends, International Outlook, Industry Characteristics, and Market Share. In fact, don't miss the Market Share Report if you are searching for product market share statistics and information. To illustrate the industry reports, click on: Internet Industry Environment. If you want numbers to enhance your industry analysis, nothing is better than Statistical Abstract of the United States particularly notice Sections 13 through 31. Download the appropriate industry group and weav3e the statistics into your report.
(Best Source) Vault.Com Career Site offers Excellent Industry Overviews Even though from an employment perspective, these will provide useful industry trends and dynamics.
(Best Source) 2002 Career Guide to Industries provides a left vertical menu with a choice of the sectors (manufacturing, services, transportation, etc.) Click on the sector, then follow through by selecting a specific industry. While primarily from an employer/employee perspective, the information on individual industry trends is extremely useful. To find information on the Internet Industry, I would start with "services" on the home page menu, then click on Computer and Data Processing. Scroll down and find a list of all positions covered. The closest we can get to Internet would be "database adminitrator."
(Best Source) Canadian Government Industry Profiles - Search by key word, SIC or NAICS. US and Canadian Industries would be very similar, however, consider differences in your use of this resource.
SmallBiz EnviroWeb Industry Trade Associations - Find the appropriate trade association link, visit the site and research for trends, characteristics, statistics or changes. Small Business Environmental Links by Industry Sectors
Accenture Industires Home Page Accenture has helped the leading organizations in 23 industries accelerate their vision. A good example of the outstanding articles to be found on this site is Accenture articles on retailing.
Thr Cole Library Renaissler at Hartford - Industry Data Finder provides some of the best links for accessing industry data. Includes links to industry and technological forecasting and market research.
Industry Research.com New portal for B2B e-commerce. Linking industrial buyers with sellers. Search from over 120,000 manufacturing and supplier companies!
IndustryClick.Com Portal for industry communities. Includes enormous supplier directory, Note the "Marketing" industry which includes direct marketing, promotions, operations adn fulfillment as well as complete rundown on events and meetings.
US Census Bureau Current Industrial Reports concentrates on numerous specifric product category industries within manufacturing, mining and consturction.
Plunkett Research (fee based) are specialists in industry research and almanacs. Most of their material is fee based and sells for $40 to $200 per report. However, there are really good industry commentaries for free, such as: PlunkettResearch Retail Trends or eCommerce B2C Trends and others.
The Dismal Scientist Industry (all fee based) section provides historical information on different industry producer prices. The information is categorized into different views, for ease of use, and includes Finished Goods, Intermediate Goods, Crude Goods, and Special Groupings. In total, there are nearly 100 different data series that are provided to assist in making industry-specific decisions.
Corporate Information.com is an excellent business search engine. Industry Research and Analysis has a lengthy index on the left listing industries/sectors from "abrasives to utilities."
IndustryLink.com is a business directory and a search engine (with the ability to set multiple parameters of search criteria) all categorized into 22 industry groups including the last one called "cross industry."
US Dept of Commerce International Trade Association Industrial and service sector resources. Statistics and profiles of most industries.
(Best Source) The Industry Data Finder provided by Rensselaer at Hartford is an extremely well organized set of links that take the researcher to numerous websites to find information on each specific industry listed. For a more thorough search of industries and related topics using an extensive alphabetized index, click the "Index" button at top of page.
Wall Street Research Net industry competition database is an excellent source for researching industry information and industry ratio comparisons.Thomas Regional Industrial Suppliers One of the best ways to determine competitors for industrial/manufacturing firms. Execute a search with a client's name, a product or industrial process or a brand name. Find the firm you are looking for, then search for all others in southern California. Select the businesses that are in cities within a set market radius and you have a list of competitors with addresses and in many cases company advantage information.
PRNewswire is an excellent source for very current articles. Click on "search" in left column menu under the heading "news." In the large frame, refer to section 2 "Topical Search." Select an industry such as "entertainment," choose a subject such as economic news/analysis, "new products/services," or "sales reports," then select California or "all states."
Peerscape.com from Deloitte & Touche, LLC requires a guest membership for full use, however one can "login as guest" and click on "industry screening reports," or industry benchmarking. Choose your industry category and United States and try it. If it is useful, seek a free trial membership.
Dow Jones Industry Link Page Begins with an index of industries or industry groups. Click on an industry and a set of links to all manor companies in the industry as well as to sources of information.
Motley Fool Investor Services Industry Reports Many industry reports on-line, especially archived from 1998-1999.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers requires signing up for a free trial membership, but is one of the most popular way of looking up contact persons for specific companies or products by name or brand name.
Still one of the best sources for industry information is our old friend University Library Dow Jones Interactive Database, again under letter D on the page. On the first page of Dow Jones Interactive, click on "Library Resources." Next click on "Search by Industry" in the left hand column. Under "select industry" click on your choice of industry then in the next lower box select "All Publications," then under "Optional" type in your choice of company(ies) then click "Run Search." Select your articles and either download or print.
CEOExpress Industry Pages CEOExpress provides specialty pages or "Industry Resources" to provide valuable information on specific industry and market segments to supplement the more general content on the CEOExpress home page. Each industry page features news and information, valuable research resources and professional development links.
Yahoo Directory of Industry Trade Association Magazines is handy, but perhaps the Yahoo Industry News page is more useful.
Fuld and Company Internet Intelligence Index is designed to help you gather competitive intelligence information. It contains links to over 600 intelligence-related Internet sites, covering everything from macro-economic data to individual patent and stock quote information.
Google Industry Directory Links to thousands of industry sites
Northernlight Business Search Specialized searching of industry-focused Web pages, market research, economic analysis, and company reports for business professionals. Some items fee based, many are free.
Zapdata Zapmarkets Detailed market information that provides key facts for better understanding specific industries. Free, fast & easy -- these market reports would typically cost $100 or more and would take weeks to generate from other sources. Must register free to use service.
SBAER
SBA Industry Profiles of Small Business Industries These interesting
SBA publications about small business industries, barber shop, hardware store,
etc. were prepared in the 1980s to 1990s, but are still useful for background
information.
Government Economic and Industry Reports, Statistics and Data Searches:
Linkages Between Key Economic Data Series - pdf Article by Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank This 15 page download is an excellent primer on finding using reporting on and interpreting the enormous economic data available from the links below. An excellent place to start or improve research skills.
Economic Indicators.Com A Very useful set of web links for tracking news on economic indicators and other facets of the current economy. Experienced professional economists and those working for financial or business organizations generally have an advantage in finding data that students and those working for small firms do not have. For this latter group, this web site is dedicated toward providing web links for publicly accessible economic and financial reports and data as well as sites for economic news and analysis. For those PowerPoints: Federal Reserve Bank Data in Graphic or Chart Form
The Dismal Scientist The desktop portal for economics including very recent economic and demographic Indicators, this is one of the best new sites to burst upon the web scene. Provides convenient data summaries for the US and for Regions, which in turn cover ranked data for States and 270 Metropolitan areas. The site also provides economic Forecasts and Industry data, as well as interesting features on current economic issues. And if that's not enough, they even offer their own Toolbox which includes economic calendar, 900 links and numerous calculators even an online economic Dictionary. Separate data categories for regions (with search capability) include: Business, Demographics, Socioeconomic, Labor, Income, Real Estate (i.e. Housing), and Vital Statistics.If you would like to see an expanded list -- exhaustive sources beyond what is listed in this section, click on: Economic Research Data Page.
USA Today and Economics.Com team up to bring you daily economic indicators, including last releases and next calendar date releases.
Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economic Network The Chief Investment Strategist of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown in New York brings this useful website for all types of economic information. Your #1 source for economic and financial information.
University
of California San Diego: Search Data on the Net Search or browse our
listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data
catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Today the Federal
Reserve's duties fall into four general areas: (1) conducting the
nation's monetary policy; (2) supervising and regulating banking institutions
and protecting the credit rights of consumers; (3) maintaining the stability of
the financial system; and (4) providing certain financial services to the U.S.
government, the public, financial institutions, and foreign official
institutions. The
Research and Data Index provides statistics, surveys, reports, staff
studies, working papers and Federal Reserve Working Papers. Federal
Reserve Search Page.
FirstGov.Gov, is the only official U.S. Government portal to 30 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions. Our site offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less. FirstGov.gov also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it.
US Department of Commerce Search Tool and other Commerce Bureau Search Pages - Several Commerce bureaus maintain their own search services and index pages. If you are looking for information specific to a single bureau (and know which bureau), you can also try visiting these pages: (1) Bureau of the Census search tool, (2) Bureau of Export Administration site search, (3) National Telecommunications & Information Administration search page, (4) National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration search and index, (5) National Institute of Standards & Technology search page, (7) National Technical Information Service product search, (8) Patent and Trademark Office site search and site index
The Bureau of Economic Analysis, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the nation's economic accountant, preparing estimates that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy. Overview of the US Economy provides a snap-shot of BEA’s primary estimates for recent quarters. It includes series from the national, international, and regional programs on production, purchases, prices, personal income, government finances, inventories, and balance of payments. BEA News Releases access the latest updates of key national, regional, and international statistics. For the updates of gross domestic product (GDP), personal income, and U.S. international transactions, summaries of the news releases are posted within minutes of the official time of release, and the entire release is posted a few hours later.
The United States Department of Commerce also provides two sites in one. First the STAT-USA "State of the Nation" is valuable for economic indicators and state of the economy, especially for manufacturing. US DOC GLOBUS and National Trade Data Bank are extremely helpful for international trade statistics, import export, global markets, etc. These are available through Cal Poly Pomona Library, which means name, social security number, and library pin number are all required.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Industry at a Glance Site begins with the nine sectors and provides a useful overview of statistical trends. Commonly requested Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data tables are available on this web site, as well as information and order forms for other consumer expenditure products.
The US Census Bureau American Fact Finder is the best way to search for all types of industry and business data. Try "industry and business facts" and "search factfinder" in the index.
US Census Bureau Economic and Business Data Pages provides a menu to several categories including several industries and sector reports. Census State Data Centers provides links to each states various on-line data resource.
Industrial Outlook for an Adobe Reader is a 42 page pdf file which reports production industry statistics from selected manufacturing industries. Presented by the US Census Bureau
Heavy oddball (e.g. fats & oils to titanium dioxide) manufacturing industries are reported by US Census Bureau at Current Industrial Reports.
California
Local Demographics: Facts and Figures
San Bernardino County Facts provides simple facts and statistics while the Community Profiles and Demographics are pdf documents of individual cities and communities with one 12 page 2000 San Bernardino County Demographic Profile.
Inland Empire Economic Partnership Factbook Economic and demographic facts, statistics and information about the Inland Empire area of southern California, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
Inland Valley Economic Development Corporation Community Profiles provide community statistics for Pomona and San Dimas to Ontario and Fontana.
California State Department of Finance California State Department of Finance resources including current economic data, county profiles, economic indicators, statistical abstract, economy report of the governor and dynamic revenue analysis for California.
California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency is a web presence designed to serve as your personal business portal into the Golden State’s thriving economy. On its pages you’ll find in-depth information on California industry, guides and programs to make business success easier, and up-to-date resources for all of your business-related questions. California's Economy provides some excellent economic statistics. California Economy Profiles from Aerospace to Wholesale trade and includes Internet. Team California Website provides similar industry profiles, news, tradeshow information and business financing information.The Business Law Site contains numerous articles on California law in small business, electronic commerce and business in general.
Times Los Angeles Times 100, California's biggest, fastest growing and most interesting companies. Also becomes an excellent business portal to the Internet with search capabilities of LA Times archives.
Internet Venture Capital Watch Another portal from Internet.com.
Search
CalGold Online information on business permits all over the
state. CalGOLD tells you what permits you need. Staff at the Permit Assistance
Centers will help you get your permits. If you choose, you can contact each
permit agency directly either via the internet or in person.
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