Competitors and Complementary Business
Finding direct competitors and complementary businesses (Businesses that are not in direct competition but may be useful to your targeted market.),
Data Axel Reference Solutions (Formerly Reference USA). may be used to help you locate competitors and complementary businesses. It provides detailed directory information. You may use the Advanced Search and narrow by industry and geography.)
Career Information
See Careers and Employment MaxGuide
Starting a Business (Entrepreneurship)
See the Entrepreneurship MaxGuide
International Business
See also MaxGuide International Business
Industries
- Harvard BusinessA searchable site with content focusing on business cases, articles, books, and Resources.
- Industry.netProfiles of numerous companies from the manufacturing industry - searchable by type of product manufactured.
- MarketResearch.com(free registration required)
- Public Register Online.Over 5000 online annual reports and 1oKs. Free, but log in is required.
- ThomasNetSearchable access to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Find out which companies manufacture certain products. Please register to obtain a username and password (free of charge).
- U.S. Census Bureau. County Business Patterns.Reports the number of a given type of company in a county by zip code, and metropolitan statistical area.
- Valuation Resources. Industry Information Resources.Covers more than 250 industries. Individual pages for each of these industries list resources available from trade associations, industry publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook . . .
Industry Ratios
Industry Ratios; -provide data that may be used to compare companies to their peers.
Financial Ratios - data generally calculated from company financial statements.
Common size financial ratios company> financial statement that displays all items as percentages of a common base figure. This type of financial statement allows for easy analysis between companies or between time periods of a company. For further information see NetMBA Common Size Financial Statements.
Industry Research
You may wish to begin your research in one of the Library's business databases. (Click the tab Find Articles for links to these resources).
- Begin by defining your industry and searching for key terms.
- Find the companies SIC/NAICS codes (See the tab SIC, NAICS, and GICs)
You my also wish to search the Internet via search engines.
Marketing
See Marketing and/or Statistics and Data MaxGuides