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BA 453 Business Strategy and Planning

In this Guide:

Industry Research
Company Research
Business/Consumer Demographics
Advertising Resources
Entrepreneurship
Selected Web Sites
Finding Articles

INDUSTRY RESEARCH

INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATIONS

  • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
    NAICS is a 6-digit code developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, but used internationally. Use the Keyword or Code search to look up codes and get descriptions. NAICS is also available via NAICS Association  
  • Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
    SIC is a system of 4-digit codes that attempts to classify all business establishments by the types of products or services. Even though NAICS officially replaced the SIC system in 1997, SIC codes still are used in some resources. Use the keyword or code search.

To learn more about the classifications systems see NAICS & SIC

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW, SURVEYS, ANALYSIS

  • Encyclopedia of American Industries
    DOCS REF HC 102.E53 2001 [On Business Index Table]
    Brief (1-10 pages) descriptions on a wide variety of industries. Includes information on an industry's background and development, and descriptions of industry leaders.
  • Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
    DOCS REF HD 2324 .E528 [On Business Index Table]
    Details the inception, emergence, and current status of 108 newly flourishing U.S. industries and industry segments.
  • Market Share Reporter
    DOCS REF HF 5415.2 .M37 [On Business Index Table]
    Covers both international and U.S. market shares with over 3,600 entries, each with a descriptive title, data and market description, list of producers/products with their market share, numerous graphics, and more.
  • IBISworld
    IBISWorld covers thousands of industries in the United States economy at the 5-digit NAICS code level. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key success factors, and outlook. IBISWorld also has extensive coverage of industries in the Asia/Pacific region with reports covering China, Australia and Indonesia.
  • Mintel Reports
    Provides research reports on European,UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Covers food, beverage, apparel, beauty and personal, retail, travel and more. Users will need to create a profile with their uoregon.edu email address to use the database.
  • Mint Global
    Mint Global from Bureau van Dijk contains information on over 35 million public and private companies and financial institutions from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It provides descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data. This database also includes over 2,600 industry and 2,700 company profiles from Datamonitor.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
    Provides detailed descriptions of companies, industries, and mutual funds. Company information includes a description of the company, stocks & bond issues, earnings estimates, dividend and split history and more. The Industry Surveys cover broad views of industries in the U.S. and international regions, including their trends, forecasts, major players and market share data, key ratios, statistics, and internal and external issues affecting the industries.
  • TableBase
    Provides statistics related to market size and share, budget/expenditures, company and brand rankings, and more.

INDUSTRY NORMS & RATIOS

  • Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
    DOCS REF HF5681.R25 T68 2001 [On Business Index Table]
  • Financial Studies of the Small Business
    DOCS REF HD 2346 .U5 F55
    Arranged by asset size and establishment type; financial and operating ratios are provided for about 50 lines of small business and manufacturing
  • Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
    DOCS REF HF 5681 .R25 I53 [On Business Index Table]
  • RMA Annual Statement Studies
    DOCS REF HF 5681 .B2 R6 [On Business Index Table]

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ASSOCIATIONS

  • ASAE Gateway to Association Directory
    Provided by the American Society of Association Executives. Search associations currently operating on the World Wide Web by keywords or location.
  • IPL Associations on the Net (AON)
    Collection of a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.
  • National Venture Capital Association
    The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the premier trade association that represents the U.S. venture capital industry.

COMPANY RESEARCH


COMPANY DIRECTORIES

  • Directory of Corporate Affiliations
    The Directory of Corporate Affiliations covers U.S. and non-U.S. public and private companies, their parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. Data includes leadership, financial and ownership information for each company.
  • ReferenceUSA
    ReferenceUSA lists 14 million U.S. businesses. Information includes: business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, year established and more.

Oregon Companies

  • Dun's Regional Business Directory: Oregon Area
    DOCS REF HF 5065 .O7 D86 [On Business Index Table]
  • Eugenebusiness.com
    Eugene/Springfield business listings.
  • Oregon Directory.com
    Lists Oregon businesses by categories.
  • OregonBusiness.net
    Listings of Oregon businesses and regional information.
  • Oregon Business Directory
    DOCS REF HF 5065 .O7 O67 [On Business Index Table]
  • Willamette Valley Business Directory
    DOCS REF HF 5065 .O7 C66 [On Business Index Table]

COMPANY PROFILES

The following resources include information on company facts, description & history, subsidiaries, financials, ratios, market research, competitors, company's industry, and more.

  • IBISworld
  • Encyclopedia of Company Histories at Answers.com
    Information on the development of top companies from around the world including timelines, lists of principal subsidiaries and competitors, and bibliographies for further reading.
  • International Directory of Company Histories
    DOCS REF HD 2721 .I63
    Provides a valuable reference source on international big business. Each entry provides basic factual information on the history of the company and a survey of its recent performance and activities.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
    Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more.
  • Mint Global
  • ORBIS
    ORBIS from Bureau van Dijk is another interface for Mint Global. Coverage of database is the same as Mint Global.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

COMPANY FINANCIALS & FILINGS

Databases listed in Company Profiles have information on company financials or links to company filings.

  • EDGAR
    Provides company and filing: 10-K, 20-F, proxy statements, some annual reports, and other financial statements of public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • FreeEDGR
    Offers users easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings.

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BUSINESS / CONSUMER DEMOGRAPHICS


BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHICS

This section includes information such as corporate density within a given geographic area, number of stores of a given company within a given geographic area, company size, and employee related statistics.

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
    US Labor Department
    Various statistics and reports on labor related topics, such as business cost, salary and wages, employee benefits, and occupational outlook and projections.
  • Business and Industry Business economic statistics by geography, sector, and frequency.
  • Site Selection
    Valuable tool for finding the perfect site for your business. Although no mapping tools are available, Site Selection offers querying tools and provides a host of demographic and economic data of U.S. counties and cititeis to help the businessperson make the right choice.
  • Super Yellow Pages
    Useful for screening small businesses.
  • U.S. County Business Patterns
    US Census Bureau, published annually
    Economic data by industry in smaller areas of the country.

CONSUMER DEMOGRAPHICS

  • American Factfinder
    Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder is the source for population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000.
  • U.S. Census Bureau
    Demographic characteristics, total population, and social and economic census data for the U.S. and international locations. Useful in determining market size.
    To generate data by subject, ethnic groups, or geographical locations use the Data Sets.
  • World Development Indicators
    Country demographic information at the national level.
  • Demographic and Social Statistics
    United Nations
    Demographic characteristics of countries.
  • International Data Base (IDB)
    US Census Bureau
    Statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
  • International Statistical Agencies
    U.S. Census Bureau
    List of statistical agencies from different countries for local demographics.

CONSUMER LIFESTYLES & BUYING POWER

This section includes who buys what. Also see Bureau of Labor Statistics for demographic characteristics of labor force, consumer expenditures, and geographic profiles of employment and unemployment.

Databases/Web Sites

  • Consumer Expenditure Survey
  • Mintel Reports
    Provides market and consumer research reports across multiple international markets. Strong in consumer goods, food and beverage industry from American and European countries.
  • Sports Business Research Network
    This is a market research database which includes demographic information on consumers.
  • Tablebase
    Tablebase is a database comprised of tabular information. The tables provide information such as market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.
  • University Internet Reporter (Formerly Mediamark Reporter)
    Offers comprehensive data on the uses of various consumer products. The studies include demographic information on the persons surveyed, their use of consumer products, and their use of various forms of advertising, including television, radio, and print media.
  • You are Where You Live
    This is the zip code look-up feature of MyBestSegments.com. PRIZM NE Segmentation System assigns every neighborhood in the U.S. to one of 62 clusters. Each cluster describes the predominant demographics and lifestyles of the people living in that neighborhood. MicroVision Standard Segmentation System defines 50 lifestyle types in the U.S.

Print Publications

  • American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money
    DOCS REF HC110.I5 A447
  • Best Customers: Demographics of Consumer Demand
    DOCS REF HC79.C6 R87 2006
  • Household income trends by age, household type, race and Hispanic origin, education, region, and work status.
  • Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What
    HC110.C6 O34
    Data and trends in spending on major categories such as apparel, entertainment, healthcare, housing, shelter, and transportation.
  • Lifestyle Market Analyst
    DOC REF HF 5415.33 .U6 L54
    Demographic, geographic, and lifestyle information arranged by Designated Market Area (DMA), lifestyle, and consumer segment.
  • Sales & Marketing Management
    HF5438 .A34
    Includes reports and surveys, such as "The Survey of Buying Power."

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ADVERTISING RESOURCES

  • Ad$pender Requires Internet Explorer.
    Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for millions of product brands across television, radio, magazine, newspaper, internet and outdoor channels. Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, brand and more. Use the link below in Database Guide to get the username and password. Username/Password
  • SRDS Media Solutions
    "The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world-cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties." The library has online access to Business Publication Advertising Source®, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source®, and Radio Advertising Source, and TV and Cable Source.

SELECTED WEB SITES

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FINDING ARTICLES

To find journal, or magazine, or newspaper articles, search the following databases:

  • Academic Search Premier
    Offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,880 journals covering areas in social sciences, humanities, general science, and education. Provides full text for nearly 1,380 journals.
  • Factiva
    Factiva offers full text of 8,000 international business and general publications including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, financial profiles for companies worldwide and historical stock prices as well as current data and market indexes.
  • Business Source Premier
    Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.
  • JSTOR: Electronic Journal Archive
    A fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines including business and economics, some of which began publication as early as the 1870s.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
    The Wall Street Journal, the financial newspaper of record, is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. The database provides the full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal going back to at least 1986, with some material from earlier years. It includes the entire text of written articles, but no graphs or data, such as stock prices.

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Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/21/2008