Industry Research from IBISWorld

If you want to find everything you can about an industry, IBISWorld is a great place to start. IBISWorld provides hard-to-find industry data like market size, major players in the industry, market share, geographic spread, keys to success, and more.

IBISWorld covers 700 industries. Here’s a list of the most popular industry profiles that were downloaded here at UB last month (hmm… video games, beer, fast food – that sounds about right!):

Rank Industry:

1. Video Games in the USA
2. Casino Hotels in USA
3. Pharmaceutical & Medicine Manufacturing in the USA
4. Beer Production in USA
5. Jewelry Stores in the USA
6. Furniture Stores in the USA
7. Computer & Peripheral Manufacturing in the USA
8. Fast food Restaurants in the USA
9. Domestic Airlines in the USA
10. Leather Goods & Luggage Manufacturing in the USA
11. Cigarette & Tobacco Product Manufacturing in the USA
12. Car & Automobile Manufacturing in the USA
13. New Car Dealers in the USA
14. Chocolate Confectionery Prodiction
15. Search Engines in the USA
16. Wine production in the USA
17. Farm, Lawn & Garden Equipment wholesaling in the USA
18. Hand Bags, Luggage & Leather Accessories Stores
19. eCommerce & Online Auctions in the USA
20. Comemercial Building Construction in the USA

Here’s a sample market share table from the fast food report:

So, go give IBISWorld a try (it’s much quicker and more reliable than Googling!).