Industry Information

Information in this section provides an outlook of the past trends in specific industry and provide forecasts for future development.

You may need to use industrial classification codes in your research:

Find Industry Information using Library Databases

IbisWorld This link opens in a new window
Access Canadian industry reports including market characteristics, statistics and business environment profiles, organized by NAICS code.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Access to data from over 18,000 sources including industry reports, dossiers, and statistics, including Statistics Canada. Download images, PPT slides, Excel files and more.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business subject coverage including management, accounting, marketing, economics, etc. Offers full text for scholarly business journals, magazines, trade journals, country economic reports, market research reports, and company and industry profiles.
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NOTE:Harvard Business Review does not allow printing or downloading of their 500 most popular articles, which changes frequently.

Canadian Industry Statistics (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Search for statistical data by industry
Canadian Trade Commissioner - Market Reports by Industry
These industry reports "offer key intelligence that lets you take advantage of foreign business opportunities in the highest-demand industrial sectors."
Deloitte Canada
Click on "Industries" to view overviews of key industries as prepared by Deloitte.
PwC Research and Insights
Select "More Industry Related Publications" under the By Industry heading.
Industry and Entrepreneurship (OECD)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publishes international industrial information.
European Commission - Business, Economy, Euro

Find information about particular industries in the news:

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from a variety of news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format. Updated daily. Part of the ProQuest Central Collection.
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Factiva This link opens in a new window
Covers more than 9,000 full text sources including local, national and international newspapers (including the Globe and Mail), business magazines, trade publications, and newswires as well as company profiles, industry information and stock market quotations and data.
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Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text of news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes mainly U.S. newspapers, laws, business news journals, company financial information, and industry and market news. Limited Canadian and other international legal research sources.
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CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for approximately 700 Canadian periodicals with 240 available in full-text. Content includes news, biographies, company profiles and historical information.
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