IBISWorld
Standardized industry reports across thousands of sectors
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Industry Reports Market Sizing Research
Overview
IBISWorld, founded in Melbourne in 1971, publishes standardized research on thousands of industries across the US, UK, Australia, Europe and China — each report covering market size, growth, competitive landscape, cost structure and key external drivers in an identical format. That consistency is the product: analysts can sanity-check a market in twenty minutes. For VC teams it is the fast first pass before spending expert-network dollars, especially in unglamorous offline industries.
Key features
- Reports on thousands of industries in identical structure
- Market size, growth and five-year forecasts
- Cost structures, margins and competitive landscapes
- US state-level and international coverage
- Risk-rating scores by industry
Pros
- Fastest way to frame an unfamiliar industry
- Covers boring offline sectors nobody else touches
- Uniform format makes cross-industry comparison easy
Cons
- Shallow on nascent tech categories
- Estimates can lag fast-changing markets by a year or more