Trade publications are a good source for finding industry rankings (participants) and industry sizes and outlooks. One can often find the dates for these annual rankings, reviews, and outlooks by looking in the media kits or advertising calendars found at the bottom of many publications websites. Access to these publications can be had directly through the sites themselves or through databases such as ABI/Inform, ProQuest, or Factiva.
Examples of Trade Publications below:
Covers U.S. and international business and economic conditions, trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and competitive information. Content types include: scholarly and trade journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, working papers, conference materials, case studies, books, audio, video, and company, country, industry, and market research reports. The ABI/INFORM Collection is comprised of ABI/INFORM Dateline (local and regional business publications), ABI/INFORM Global (in-depth coverage from thousands of publications), and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics).
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