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Hotel and Restaurant Management: Company and Industry Information

This research guide was specifically designed to focus on the hotel and restaurant industry. Each section offers a variety of information that correlates with the field of hospitality management.

Finding Company and Industry Information

Use the databases below to find information on companies and industries such as: financials, competitors, products, stock information, business profiles, and reports.

  • Hoover's Company Information - Full text database of company & industry information, business news and travel.
  • ReferenceUSA - The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses; 210 million U.S. residents; 855,000 U.S. health care providers; 1.5 million Canadian businesses; and 12 million Canadian residents.
  • LexisNexis Academic - Click on the Companies tab on the side of the screen to find detailed financial information, legal information, intellectual property, news and more about a company.
  • Statista- Statistics portal with data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources. Categorized into 21 market sectors, this database offers quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

NAICS and SIC codes

All types of businesses in North America are assigned a NAICS code (North American Industry Classification System). It was created to standardize business industry categorization. The NAICS code can be used to make searching more efficient when doing business research.

 

*Abrams, Rhonda M. Successful Business Research. Palo Alto, CA: Planning Shop, 2006. Print.