Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Market and Industry Research

Databases

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Current. An industry analysis resource providing access to industry and company research reports for more than 700 United States industries. Includes Industry Risk Rating Reports and Economic & Demographic Profiles....more.
Mintel Reports Database This link opens in a new window
Mintel reports provide market research on consumer products, services, and lifestyles to identify economic drivers, leading companies, market share, market size, trends, segmentation, and analysis of consumer attitudes and purchasing habits....more.
Passport: Global Market Information Database This link opens in a new window
From Euromonitor International. Provides international business research intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers located in Asia Pacific, Australasia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, North America, and Western Europe.
Resource is available only to current SLU students, faculty, and staff....more.
BizMiner This link opens in a new window
Bizminer offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. The market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code....more.

RKMA Market Research Handbook Series by Richard K. Miller & Associates
Publication Date: 2023
These business reference handbooks focused on marketing and the consumer marketplace. Each handbook includes market assessments and forecasts, sector trends, profiles of market leaders, and statistics. In addition to in-depth analyses, the handbooks include links to hundreds of websites for additional information.

Frost & Sullivan This link opens in a new window
Industry and technology research reports covering US and international markets in areas such as information & communication technology, healthcare, automotive & transportation, aerospace & defense, measurement & instrumentation, chemicals, materials, energy, industrial automation...more.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, politics, education, technology and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 80,000 topics from 18,000 sources...more.
International Strategic Analysis This link opens in a new window
Country Intelligence and International Market Analysis that includes country and region reports, and economic and risk forecasts...more.
MRI Simmons Insights This link opens in a new window
Formerly MRI University Internet Reporter. Consists of marketing data, collected from more than 22,000 households, which is projected to the general population. This resource allows 10 concurrent users.
Standard & Poors Global Market Intelligence This link opens in a new window
Access Standard & Poors publications and resources such as Stock Reports, Market Snapshots, and the Daily Stock Price Record for NASDAQ, American, and New York stock exchanges....more.
RMA eStatement Studies This link opens in a new window
2003/04-present. Provides Financial Ratio Benchmarks, Industry Default Probabilities, and Cash Flow Measures by industry. In addition, the digital version allows you to break out this information by region in the United States….more.

More Industry Resources

For additional industry resources, try the Industry Research Guide