INDUSTRY RESEARCH

Industry-At-A-Glance Reports

• Industry Specific Business Guides
  These industry specific reports focus on industries where small businesses account for much of the activity. The reports are designed to help in business planning, whether at start-up or expansion, or to serve as a reality check for existing businesses. Although these reports were prepared with Missouri businesses in mind, some trends, issues, opportunities, and challenges may apply to businesses in other states as well.

• Gifts & Decorative Accessories (magazine)
  Free e-mail newsletter. Article archives.
  
  
• Gift Basket Review (magazine)
  Sample articles.
  
  
• Giftware Business (magazine)
  Free email newsletter. Free subscription to industry participants. Industry reports and analyses.

• American Craft Council
  (includes an excellent collection of craft related links)

• The Food Industry Center
  University of Minnesota,
  Department. of Applied Economics
  The Food Industry Center produces several publications and has a current list on their website: working papers, current articles, presentations, books, journal articles, and an electronic newsletter.
  
  
• Food Master
  An online database listing equipment, ingredients, supplies, and services to food and beverage manufacturers.
  
  
• Manufacturers' Agents Association For The Food Service Industry
  Locate food industry suppliers, manufacturers and their representatives.

INDUSTRY CODES

• NAICS/SIC Conversion Search
  The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. NAICS will reshape the way we view our changing economy.

  NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America.

  NAICS was developed in cooperation with the US Economic Classification Policy Committee, Statistics Canada, and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica.