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How industries describe themselves, in their own words

Trade bodies and companies explaining their own market — where segment names and category definitions actually originate.

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What you can do with it

Use the sector's own vocabulary

Segment definitions come from the people who coined them.

Tell a trade body from a vendor

An industry position and one company's marketing are kept apart.

Find the structure of a market

How an industry divides itself is usually the first thing an outsider needs.

Read the primary material

The published document, not a summary of a summary.

Where it’s used

Research

Research reads this collection when a question is about a market rather than a company.

The index behind it

Read, filed and kept current.

This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.

Industry and sector research — askFinz