Now you have the outline of a report so you can go directly to the correct section in an online service. Granted, you won't be lucky enough to find a BCC report for every industry. However, you can find a great deal of data through market research firms, usually enough to save you the initial weeding out steps of the typical online search. An online search will be much more effective if you start it equipped with leading companies, broad industry forecasts, and the correct terminology. Investment firms and other financial Web sites also can provide useful top-level market research, but only if you're researching an industry with a lot of public companies.
Good examples are energy, communications, semiconductors, and electronics.
The best data you'll get from financial sites are corporate information. Not only can you find names of leading companies, but you also can pull up forecasts of a company's prospects and its place in the industry as a whole. An online search will be much more effective if you start it equipped with leading companies, broad industry forecasts, and the correct terminology. Corporate Finance Network and The Syndicate supply numerous links to sites. To find market data on financial sites, avoid the advice for consumers and look for pages targeting companies, research, and news releases.