Market / industry reports
 

Market research
 

Free of Charge

Yahoo's list of important market research institutes worldwide 

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Direct links
  • Good search function
     

Marketing Research Assoctiation
 

Free of Charge

Membership list of the Marketing Research Association with direct links to homepages.

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good starting point
     

MarketResearch.com
 

Payment required

Provider of global market intelligence products and services. Offers access to over 40,000 research publications from more than 350 top consulting and advisory firms. 

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good search function
  • Catalogue by topic
     

Frost & Sullivan
 

Some reports free
Payment required for
majority

International marketing research institute, especially in the areas of industry, chemicals, IT, space travel, medicine

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Comprehensive marketing reports with analyses and diagnoses
  • Quality
  • Table of contents not available
     

The Yankee Group
 

Free research summaries
Payment required for full reports

Provides accurate, reliable, and trusted research and consulting services focusing on global communications, wireless, internet, and e-business markets and technologies.

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good search function
  • List of related reports available
     

Datamonitor
 

Free brief summary and table of contents
Payment required for full reports

Datamonitor provides business information across the Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare & Technology sectors.

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good search function
  • Brief summary for free
     

Profound
 

Payment required

Comprehensive database, contains marketing reports from various providers.

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good marketing reports, great variety of providers
  • Specific search possible
  • Reports directly downloadable
     

Northern Light Search
 

Some reports with free table of contents
Payment required for others

Search engine specializing in Business Research.

Strengths/weaknesses
 

  • Good search function
  • Some information for free, other is expensive
     


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Accenture,  Zurich/Switzerland
June 2002