Library Guides: Market Research: Industry Associations, Organizations, Conferences, Trade Shows

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Professional, trade, and industry associations will often have detailed information on their stakeholder groups and target customers. Use the resources on this page to find industry associations and access their research and publications.

Conferences and Trade Shows

Use these resources to find professional conferences and trade shows for various industries. Review the schedules and programming for these to learn about current events and trends in an industry.

Associations and Organizations

Encyclopedia of Associations
A comprehensive list of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Associations keep track of industry data for their members and may have valuable information on an industry that would not be found in standard business sources. Indexes include name of organization, key word, and geographic area.

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of detailed industry research reports. Industry reports include industry analysis, outlook, products and markets, market segments, supply chain, major players, competitive landscape, operating conditions, key statistics, and more.
This subscription includes reports for the US and China, as well as global industry reports. Specialized industry reports are also included along with US business environment data profiles. Reports are typically 35-40 pages in length.
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
S&P NetAdvantage includes a broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including Industry Surveys, and Equity Research (formerly Stock Reports). Industry data sets include key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, financial metrics, etc. by sub-industry or geography (see Markets tab). Archived Industry Surveys included as far back as 1999 depending upon title continuity. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.

Business & Trade Organizations - New Orleans (NOLA.com)