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Selected Sources for New ProductsBusiness Periodical Databases |
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Business Insights: Essentials
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Business Source Premier
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ProQuest News |
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WestLawNews |
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Duluth News Tribune |
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Google Scholar
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MasterFile Premier |
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Business Analyst Online |
Business Analyst Online (BAO) Utilizing extensive demographic, consumer spending, and business data, BAO provides detailed information and insights about consumers, their lifestyles and buying behavior, and businesses in your market area. With BAO, you can:
To start using this database, I recommend viewing this short video:
FAQ's are here:
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Global New Products Database The GNPD is a subsection of our Mintel database. It monitors worldwide product innovation and new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets with data going back to 1996. GNPD Covers food, drink, household, beauty & personal care, healthcare, and pet sectors across key global markets. The database's analysis tool is extremely useful to analyze trends in product claims, product ingredients, find competing products, and packaging trends. THIS IS A KEY SOURCE! |
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IBIS World Industry Reports provide industry market research reports on over 1,300 U.S. industries, plus Canada, China, and Global Industries. Each IBISWorld report includes:
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Mintel Reports This is a VERY Key Source
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Reference USA ReferenceUSA FAQ and Tutorials How to Use ReferenceUSA
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SMA: Sports Market Analytics (formerly SBRnet) provides resources related to the business of sports including industry-developed market research, government statistics, facility reports and news, international market publications, customized research, and directories. |
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Trade Associations Most industries have Trade Associations, which collect useful information that can promote their respective member companies. Two large lists of Trade Associations are found below that are useful for browsing. Use the search engines, Google or Bing, to search for specific industry associations, for example, Coffee or Beer. Websites of Trade Associations can often provide useful clues or directly provide reports or statistical data. |
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List of Notable Industry Trade Groups in the United States -- Wikipedia | |||
List of Trade Associations from the Planning Shop | |||
Use Google or Bing to search for a particular trade association by industry. | |||
International Information | |||
If your New Product project requires information related to foreign countries, our GNPD database, listed above, would be our first main source. However, we have numerous ways to find country based information, and depending on your approach, some sources may be better than others. So, if you are working with foreign country information, it would be best to arrange a meeting with me, to help outline your research path. | |||
Industry Overviews and Analysis | |||
Your first assignment requires Industry Analysis. Many of the above databases can help with this research, and this web page, Industry Overview Reports, provides some instructions. MarketLine Reports, if current ones can be found for your industries, are excellent, providing Porter's Five Forces Analysis. IBIS World Reports provide essential industry overviews. Statista can proved important statistical insights into industries and some products. After you discover which industries you are researching, please contact me via email with this information, and I may be able to send you additional sources of industry overviews. |
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Key Competitor Information | |||
For larger public companies, Mergent Online, NetAdvantage, and Hoover's Company Profiles, all provide close direct competitor listings. Search for a company and then look for the "Competitors" tab. | |||
Questionnaires, Surveys, and Focus Groups |
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Students may want to consider doing primary research on a given business topic. Primary research allows you to discover and create current information on a specific or localized topic. We have many books in our Library that can help you better understand how to do this work. | |||
The Google is the first place to go to search the web.
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Updated September 7, 2020.