Market Data & Industry Research

Business Source Premier 
Business Source Premier features Datamonitor company reports that include a company overview, key facts, business description, history, key employees with biographies, major products and services, top competitors, locations and subsidiaries.ucts and services, top competitors, locations and subsidiaries.

D & B Business Browser (Global)
D&B Business Browser presents consolidated company profiles on more than 90 Million companies world-wide. Business Browser provides you with a deeper understanding of a company’s business focus, history, competition, strengths, weaknesses, executives and news coverage. Plus, detailed financial reports give you the power to compare multiple companies so you can more effectively evaluate companies in relation to each other and compare to industry norms.

DemographicsNow
DemographicsNow provides access to robust and highly detailed U.S. demographic data. It is ideal for gaining consumer and market insight when opening a business, finding an untapped audience for products/services, analyzing the shifts and needs of a given population, and so much more.

Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®'s private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.

Data Axle Reference Solutions
Data Axle Reference Solutions (Formerly: Reference USA) provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. companies. Searchable by state, city, zip code, and SIC codes and yellow page headings. Searches can be customized by company size, sales volume, geographic location, industry, etc.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Occupational Employment Statistics Consumer prices, consumer spending, producer prices, employment costs and statistics.
• City Data
  Complete statistical profiles of US Cities
• Key BLS Statistics: United States Economy at a Glance
  This all in one chart provides official data on unemployment, hourly earnings, CPI, PPI, import prices, employment costs and productivity for the past 6 months. You can also locate here quick comparison charts for industries, regions, and individual states.  
• Key BLS Statistics: United States Industry at a Glance
• Oklahoma Department of Commerce
  Community profiles, demographic, and economic data.
• US Industrial Outlook
  Current Economic Indicators, Demographic Change, e-Business and e-Commerce, Economic and Geographic Concentrations, Economic Overview, Forecasts and Projections, and more

Key Tables

• American Community Survey
• County and City Data Book
• County Business Patterns
• State and Metropolitan Area Data Book: 2010
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States

Consumer market data is the key component to a market analysis.  A market analysis is a regional and neighborhood study of economic, demographic and other factors made to determine supply and demand, market trends, and to evaluate actual or potential sales of a product or service.

• Edward Lowe Foundation Entrepreneur’s Resource Center
• Market Research World
• Small Business Administration Guide for Market Research