Market Research Reports
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowIndustry Market Research reports and Industry Risk Ratings. Focuses on United States, but has some data on global markets.
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Insider Intelligence (formerly known as eMarketer)eMarketer provides information on online marketing, social media, and emerging digital technologies around the world.
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MarketResearch.com Academic This link opens in a new windowFind lengthy, detailed market reports or brief white papers describing all types of businesses. Covers international and US markets.
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Forrester This link opens in a new windowTechnology and market research from Forrester Research, Inc. focusing on the business implications of technology change.
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Mint GlobalUS and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports.
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OrbisUS and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Mint Global with a different interface).
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SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network)Sports Business Research Network provides market research and industry news for the sports industry. SBRnet's site combines market research from the largest single research supplier to the industry, the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies.
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantageA comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.
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Consumer Expenditure Surveycompiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program consists of two surveys, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Mintel This link opens in a new windowMintel Oxygen provides detailed market research reports in the areas of Beauty & Personal Care, Drink, Food, Leisure & Entertainment, Lifestyles, and Retailing and Apparel.
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WARC This link opens in a new windowPreviously known as the World Advertising Research Center, WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing trends around the world including expenditure data, case studies, industry trends and consumer insight.
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BCC Research This link opens in a new windowBCC Research provides objective, unbiased measurement and assessment of market opportunities with detailed market research reports.
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Snapshots This link opens in a new windowThis database offers top-line international market research overviews focusing on 40+ industries in more than 40 countries worldwide, including regional summaries. It provides market size, share, forecasts and segments.
Company Research
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Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new windowBusiness Insights: Global is a source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries. Also known as Gale Business Insights.
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Passport/Global Market Information DatabaseGlobal Market Information Database (GMID by Euromonitor) providesinternational company, country, industry and market information. Searchoptions include industries, countries, consumers, companies andgeographies. User has ability to download reports in Word, Excel or PDF
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Mergent OnlineU.S. Company Data. An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings
International Company Data. More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases. -
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantageA comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries. Content includes detailed tock reports, company profiles, bond reports, corporation records, mutual fund reports, security dealers directory and industry surveys.
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Gartner This link opens in a new windowUse the "Advanced Search" feature to locate full-text articles available to USC users. Not all documents are available in full-text form. Research from Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. Gartner works with clients to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT.
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Hoovers Company Profiles (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowThis database contains proprietary information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
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PrivCo This link opens in a new windowPrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. You must create an account (USC e-mail address) to login.
Spending Reports
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Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform and providing companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
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EBSCO Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database provides articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly and many others.
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Advertising Red Books (Winmo) This link opens in a new windowDetailed information on advertising agencies and advertisers.
More Information
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Business ResourcesFor more business resources
Addtional Internet Resources
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Apparel SearchA fashion directory portal with links to businesses and other industry resources.
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Business of FashionGlobal daily resource for 'fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs'. BoF includes rankings, trends and features such as Fashion 2.0, CEO talk, Insight & Analysis.
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Circular X: Fashion Tech Trends Report, 2018Accenture report focusing on circular economy applications to the apparel industry
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ClothesSourceNews and one-to-one advice on making the most of the constantly changing apparel trade
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Eliminating Friction in Fashion Path to PurchaseA 2018 report from KPMG
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Apparel Quarterly Update, Winter 2021Issued by Kroll; previously issued by Duff Phelps
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Los Angeles Fashion DistrictDirectory to the L.A. Fashion District which includes current news and project reports
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Los Angeles Fashion District - Reports & StatisticsData compiled quarterly
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Measuring Fashion: environmental impact of the global apparel & footwear industriesA 2018 report from Climate Works; free registration required to download.
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The State of Fashion, 2022A joint report between the Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company (published annually).
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Fashion Futures 2025: global scenarios for a sustainable fashion industryA report from Forum for the Future
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Apparel ManufacturingA 2021 SEDEX insight report with COVID-19 impact analysis