INDUSTRIAL SALES

Key Companies and Industries

Industry Week

  • Select Research
    • Best Manufacturing Companies
    • Census of Manufacturers
    • IW 1000


Hoovers Online

Covers:

  • Public and large private companies
  • Basic company and industry information
  • Companies & Industries
  • Industries
    • Industry List - Manufacturing


Thomas Register*
"The most comprehensive resource for industrial information. Go straight to the source of product, company information, CAD drawings and more!"
*Register for Free

 

Journal Articles

Sample Search Terms:
Personal selling Direct selling Sales prospecting
Trade shows Brokers Industrial goods
Industrial markets B2B Distribution channels
Market research Customer relations POP displays
Internet E-commerce Marketing mix


Factiva
A massive database that delivers detailed company financials, company-to-industry ratios, and full-text articles from over 6,000 business-related sources. Factiva provides full text articles from a wide range of technology-driven journals, newspapers, and periodicals. Indexes many industrial and manufacturing journals including:

Industrial Marketing Management
Industry Week
Machine Design
Manufacturing Automation
Survey of Current Business

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Engineering Village
Engineering Village2 offers access to Compendex, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering literature, containing references to over 13 million citations from 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and reports. Indexes and provides full-text journals within the manufacturing planning and operations management areas including Distribution Sales and Management,
International Journal of Industrial Organization and Management Science.

 

Case Studies

ABI Inform
ABI/INFORM provides in-depth coverage of business issues, management techniques, competitive information, and a variety of other topics. It indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the United States. More than half of the articles are available in full-text or full-image. Offers thousands of Case Studies by company, industry, keyword, and product. Indexes many management, marketing and industry-related journals including:

Industrial Management Review
Industrial Distribution
Industrial Management
Industry Week
The Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing

Direct Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Consumer Marketing
Journal of International Marketing
Journal of Marketing
Journal Of Marketing Theory & Practice
Marketing Management
Marketing News
Marketing Research
Marketing
Target Marketing

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Frank Vuotto, M.A., M.L.I.S.
Business & Agribusiness Librarian, Faculty
California Polytechnic State University
Robert E. Kennedy Library
San Luis Obispo, CA 93420
fvuotto@calpoly.edu

 

Last updated August 25, 2005

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