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Business Databases

Hoover's Company Profiles
Profiles of companies, industries, and key executives. Look for the "Document type" and "subject" filters on the left to find industry reports, company profiles, market research, and more.

SportBusiness Professional
SportBusiness is a trusted global intelligence service, providing unique news, analysis, data, consulting and events delivering a competitive advantage in the business of sport.
SMA Sports Market Analytics
Sports business resource with market research, publications, and directories. (Formerly, SBRnet- Sport Business Research Network).
Statista
Statistical data on international industries, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases- generating friendly graphs and images.

NAICS
Each type of industry is assigned certain codes, called NAICS codes, which allow you to do research on a specific industry. For example, "grocery stores" are coded 445110; real estate agencies are coded 531210. You can use these codes to find financial information, forecasting, human resources-related issues, salaries, and more.

American FactFinder
Driven by the U.S. Census, provides great data on population, housing, demographics, and income.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The OECD provides data and reports on economic conditions all over the world.
Statista - Statistics, Graphs and Data
The Statistical Abstract of the United States
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
The World Bank
Provides authoritative and current data on demographics and economies of all countries.
The World Factbook
U.S. government's complete geographical handbook. Country profiles track population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data.