Food & Beverage Industry
This guide will help you locate background on the food and beverage industries. Which sources are best will be determined by your area of interest. Are you interested in retailing, franchising, manufacturing, or wholesaling aspects of the industry? What specific product are you interested in? Beer? Soft drinks? Fast Food? This will determine which resource is best to locate relevant research.
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Top Databases
Business & IndustryBusiness & Industry is a broad business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. It covers all industries and is international in scope. B&I draws content from a large number of trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies and newsletters. This is a good database to search for recent events about a company or industry and tends to have very good coverage of marketing topics. It is also useful for finding information about regional company and industry news. [more]
Business Source Premier
BSP provides coverage to virtually all subject areas related to business, including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. In addition to covering the major scholarly business journals, BSP also covers company reports, SWOT analyses, working papers, country reports, industry reports and other searchable categories like case studies, book reviews, product reviews, speeches, and interviews. This database is the exclusive online provider of many major journals like the Harvard Business Review, but it does not contain the fulltext of the Wall Street Journal (see Factiva for WSJ). [more]
e-Marketer
This database contains market research reports that focus on how e-commerce and the Internet affect business and industry. Coverage includes 21 different industries and several business functions. The eStat portion of this database has statistics and graphs on Internet-related topics. Running approximately 200 pages, each report combines eMarketer's original analysis with aggregated data from leading market research firms, such as IDC, Gartner, Forrester, Yankee Group, government, non-profit, and academic sources. [more]
Factiva
Factiva is a multi-functional database. It is primarily used to find the full-text of business publications, including magazines, trade publications, and newspapers. It has full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal. It is a good source for international and local business news, which typically isn't covered in other databases. Also included in this database are company profiles and financial quotes. [more]
General BusinessFile ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and business trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. Includes some Investext brokerage reports, but they are usually older reports. See Reuter's Research On Demand database for more up-to-date brokerage reports. [more]
MarketLine Business Information Center
Locate detailed company, industry, and country profiles published by Datamonitor Market Research. This database includes 10,000 reports on public and private companies, both U.S. and international. Reports feature: business description, history, major products and services, locations and subsidiaries, top competitors, SWOT analysis (top 1,000 companies only). The industry profiles contain: Market overview, value, segmentation, share, and forecasts, competitive landscape, and leading companies. Many industry reports include (Porter's) Five Forces analysis. [more]
Mintel Reports
Mintel offers market research reports focused on the consumer in the U.S., U.K., European, and some Asian markets. They cover a variety of sectors such as: consumer goods, leisure and travel, personal finances, technology and electronics, retail, clothing, and food, food service, and drink. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports include market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. A highlight of Mintel is the inclusion of Simmons National Consumer Survey (NCS) , a leading authority on the behavior of the American consumer. [more]
TableBase
This easy-to-use database contains tables and text excerpted from numerous publications. Along with simple keyword searching, users can also limit searches by choosing from lists of concept terms, marketing terms, countries, industries, and document types. If you're looking for a ranking of products or companies in table format, this is a great resource to begin your search. You can select to view the table only- or you can select the full text article which includes the table within the context of the original article. [more]
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Books, Reference & Print Resources
Modern Brewery Age Blue Book
REF HD 9397 .U5 M644
Beer Statistics News
REF HD 9397 .U5 .B447
REF HD 9348 .U5 N35
Relevant Journals
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Internet Resources & Websites
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade BureauThis source has statistics on beer.
American Beverage Association
Beertown
This source has information about the craft brewing industry.
Beverage World
Under the link for Special Reports are industry reports that can be downloaded free.
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States
This source has industry statistics
International Food Policy Research Institute
This source has a searchable publications database with free downloadable reports.
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