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The manufacturing and production of goods, or the provision of services, through a business enterprise.
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Subcategories of Industry are:
- Business and Personal Services
- Businesses and professionals engaged in providing services, such as credit collection, advertising, accounting, and automotive repair, to businesses and individuals.
- Construction
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- Hotels and Lodging
- Resources related to the hotel and hospitality industry.
- Manufacturing
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- Public & Investor Relations
- The public relations business provides services to promote products, persons, or companies. The investor relations industry strives to increase the shareholder base of publicly-owned companies.
- Publishing & Media
- The publishing of books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed materials and dissemination of information by means of the broadcast media.
- Resource Development
- Industries related to the usage, processing and distribution of natural and other resources.
- Retail Trade
- This category represents the interests of professionals and businesses engaged in the selling of goods to individuals.
- Utilities
- Electricity, gas, and other utility services.
- Other Industries
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Resources in this category are:
- Center for Business Planning
- http://www.businessplans.org/
- "The Center for Business Planning provides any business manager or entrepreneur with a set of resources to help in creating a business or managing a business. Information is provided on every area of planning a business including: acquire venture capital, define new products, market analysis, competitive analysis, production management, tax problems, legal issues, prepare financial statements, write a business plan and much more."
- Author: Business Resource Software, Inc. (info@brs-inc.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Business Administration & Management
- Business & Economics--Business Administration & Management--Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Keywords: Entrepreneur
- CompaniesOnline
- http://www.companiesonline.com/
- This site provides information about over 100,000 U.S. companies. Browse or search to retrieve profiles that include name, city, state, mailing address, industry, ticker symbol, URLs, and links to latest stock quotes.
- Author: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- CorporateInformation
- http://www.corporateinformation.com/
- "Focuses on providing access to Web-based information on companies throughout the world." Searchable by country, company name and industry. Gives recent news and fast facts for each country, links to sources of company information, a list of and definitions of extensions (such as Inc.) found after company names, and research reports for 15,000 companies. Profiles of some companies are also offered in French and Spanish. "A good starting point to find corporate information from around the world."
- Author: George Regnery (regnery@wisi.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Finance--Corporate Finance
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--International Business
- Keywords: Corporations; News; Research Reports; Company profiles
- EDGAR Database
- http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
- This site will allow you to retrieve publicly available electronic filings submitted by corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to the present. Non-electronic filings, filings that are not available to the public, and any data prior to 1993 will not be available here.
- Author: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (webmaster@sec.gov)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Finance--Corporate Finance
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Law, Government & Political Science--Government--US Federal Government--Executive--Agencies
- Keywords: Corporations
- Fortune 500
- http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/
- This site lists almost all you ever wanted to know about the Fortune 500 including the current list of companies, lists of the CEO's, Industry Medians, and Top Performers.
- Author: Time Inc. New Media (privacy@pathfinder.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Keywords: Fortune 500; companies; corporations
- FreeEDGAR
- http://www.freeedgar.com/
- Free online access to SEC filings. Searchable by company name or SIC code. Reports can be viewed online or turned into downloadable Excel spreadsheets. Also includes "in-depth financial analysis based on FreeEDGAR financial data" and "basic information on finance and investing."
- Author: EDGAR Online, Inc.
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Finance--Corporate Finance
- Business & Economics--Finance--Investments
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Keywords: EDGAR; Securities and Exchange Commission; United States
- Industry Research Desk
- http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/index2.htm
- "Provides tools for researching specific companies, industries, and manufacturing processes. For business researchers not yet familiar with the internet, a brief 'Introduction to the Internet' is provided." An excellent place to begin when looking for company information on the Internet.
- Author: Polson Enterprises (polsong@ virtualpet.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Business Directories
- Business & Economics--Industry
- ISO 9000 Translated into Plain English
- http://connect.ab.ca/~praxiom/index.htm
- "This website discusses the ISO 9000 quality standards. It discusses both requirements and guidelines. ISO's requirements include ISO 9001, ISO 9002, and ISO 9003. And ISO's guidelines include ISO 9000, ISO 9004, ISO 10011, and ISO 10013. For the benefit of those who appreciate clarity, [the site's creators] have translated these requirements and guidelines into plain English." The standards are only summarized on the site, but publications that provide more detail are available for purchase.
- Author: Praxiom Research Group Limited (info@praxiom.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Keywords: standards; standardization
- ISO Online
- http://www.iso.ch/welcome.html
- Information from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), including the ISO catalog of standards, ISO Technical Committees, ISO member bodies and meeting schedules. An ISO 9000 News Service is provided, along with a section, "What's New at ISO." There is also a list of links to online information from national standards bodies of about 20 countries.
- Author: International Organization for Standardization (central@iso.ch)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--International Business
- Science & Technology--Engineering
- Keywords: ISO 9000; Standards
- Japanese Industrial Standards
- http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/JIS/index.html
- These documents are based on Industrial Standardization in Japan, 1994, published by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee.
- Author: H. Ikeda
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--International Business
- Keywords: Japanese Industrial Standards
- Jurisline.com
- http://www.jurisline.com/
- Includes "Fully searchable federal and state cases and statutes" plus "Full-text searching of EDGAR filings," with "easy download in dual column format to Wordperfect or Word."
- Author: Jurisline.com, LLC. (feedback@jurisline.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Law, Government & Political Science--Law
- Law, Government & Political Science--Government--US Federal Government--Executive--Agencies
- Manufacturing Marketplace
- http://www.manufacturing.net/
- Manufacturing Marketplace is "one of the Internet's most comprehensive sites tailored to engineering, design, purchasing, logistics and distribution professionals." Free registration provides access to associations, tradeshows, new products, and news. A major feature of the site is a searchable directory of products and services, suppliers, and trade names. In addition, selected articles are available from a dozen highly targeted trade journals.
- Author: Reed Elsevier
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- MI-Net: Marine Institute Network of Educational Topics
- http://www.mi.mun.ca/minet.htm
- A site featuring marine science educational topics for K-12. "MI-Net is intended to provide a variety of information about the fisheries and marine sectors to students throughout the school system. Through access to WWW resources and Marine Institute expertise, MI-Net will enhance students' knowledge of marine industries." Includes lesson plans for teachers.
- Author: Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland (Joanne Waddleton@mail.mi.mun.ca)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Education--K-12
- Science & Technology--Life Sciences--Marine Biology
- Keywords: marine; fishery; fishing industry; commericial fishing; environment; ecology
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
- http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
- "The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. NAICS will reshape the way we view our changing economy." The site explains how NAICS will affect data users with correspondence tables that can take you from SIC to NAICS or vice versa. There are also sections on the development and implementation of NAICS.
- Author: U.S. Census Bureau (WebMaster@census.gov)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--Statistics
- Keywords: SIC; NAICS
- Research Starting Point
- http://www.iwaynet.net/~nesser/research.html
- "This site provides a structured look at many sites on the Internet which may be helpful in performing various types of legal and/or business research." Links are grouped into the categories: accounting, companies, government, industry, legal, news, reference, search engines, and statistics.
- Author: Nesser Consulting Group, Ltd. (nesser@iwaynet.net)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Finance
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Law, Government & Political Science
- Keywords: companies; industry; statistics; market research
- Researching Companies Online
- http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/index.html
- "This business research tutorial presents a step-by-step process for finding FREE company and industry information on the World Wide Web. Accurate and timely information is essential for any business to remain competitive. With the Internet, you can gather a tremendous amount of business intelligence information on prospects, competitors, vendors, suppliers, customers, or other companies in just a few hours."
- Author: Debbie Flanagan (deb_flanagan@yahoo.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Standard Industrial Classification Manual (SIC)
- http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/sic.html
- "This system searches the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification Manual for keywords. The narrative and descriptive secions of the manual have been excluded."
- Author: Geospacial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia Library (ssdc@fisher.lib.virginia.edu)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--Statistics
- Trade Show News Network
- http://www.tsnn.com/
- "The Trade Show News Network at TSNN.com provides a one-stop shop for thousands of leading trade shows, including event descriptions, dates, locations, histories, press releases, exhibitor lists, attendee demographics, and conference info." Search for worldwide conferences and trade shows in mnay industries and professions. There are also searches for exhibitors and suppliers.
- Author: Trade Show News Network (info@tsnn.com)
- Subjects:
- Business & Economics--Industry
- Business & Economics--Marketing & Advertising
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