Market research reports can help you determine possible business opportunities, including identifying trends, competitive analysis, existing or emerging markets.
Portal for statistics, industry reports, and more. Includes 600 industries, 18 consumer markets, and 9 digital markets.
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Consumer data is an important component of your market research. Find demographic information such as age, income, education levels, and behavioral information of your potential consumer base.
CANSIM is Statistics Canada's key socio-economic database. Provides statistics on various subjects, such as population and demography, and income, labour, and business performance.
Canadian Census and NHS data available to download for many levels of geography.
Industry research can provide you with valuable information on: trends, competitors, consumers, regulations, new products, operating conditions, distribution and supply chains, and financial outlooks.
Portal for statistics, industry reports, and more. Includes 600 industries, 18 consumer markets, and 9 digital markets.
A highly respected resource for IT business-related research on companies, products, and trends. Over 100,000 reports, charts, and other documents are updated frequently. Login with your SMU email address and password.
NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) and SIC (Standard Industry Classification) are codes that group together companies of similar industries and sectors, such as retail trade, manufacturing or information technology..
Note: SIC was used by the Canadian and United States governments until 1987, when both countries adopted NAICS. Some databases continue to use SIC.
Companies might be your competitors, potential customers, or partners. Search company profiles in the databases and directories listed below. You can use directories to identify competitors by industry, products, etc; search annual reports, corporate filing and/or article databases for competitor strategies and business environment risks.
Access to over 100 million private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, and executive information. Updated daily.
