Local Market, Industry, and Company Information
Use the resources below to gather information about the grocery and food retail industry in a local market (city, county, state, zip code, etc.) . Local market data includes:
- Industry financial averages, ratios, and statistics for some industry sectors
- Grocery and food retail companies in the local market
- General demographics and economic characteristics of the region
- Consumer demand, trends, and buying behavior for grocery and food stores, retail, products, and more
- Mergent Intellect
Use to find companies and competitors by user-defined search criteria, such as size, location, industry, sales, and more. Useful for private company information which includes estimated sales.
Use Mergent Intellect to find companies in your industry by location
- Use the advanced search feature and then screen by industry using either the SIC or NAICS code.
- For SIC codes, start by browsing to the 54 Food Stores code to find the most relevant industry code.
- For NAICS codes, start by browsing to the 445 Food and Beverage Retailers code to find the most relevant industry code.
- How to use Mergent Intellect
How-to videos to help you find information quickly in Mergent Intellect.
Use Mergent Intellect for local consumer information
In addition to finding companies and competitors in your local market, use Mergent Intellect to:
- Find Consumer Data and profiles for a specific location
- Gather demographics of a city, county, state, or region
- Search by Resident to find information about specific people
- SimplyAnalytics
SimplyAnalytics provides demographic, business, or marketing data down to the local level, allowing users to create customized maps and reports with an almost unlimited number of variables. See my Tips & Tricks Guide for help with this database.
- Use SimplyAnalytics to know how many people in your market area buy a product, belong to a certain demographic, and more.
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As an example, you could use SimplyAnalytics to find data by zip code on the percentage of people in Columbus, Ohio, who shop at Whole Foods.
Get Tips & Tricks and Use SimplyAnalytics To:
- Rank geographic locations by consumer, demographic, or economic data
- Create a visual map of consumers in your target market area
- Find businesses and competitors in your geographic region
- Build data tables to compare multiple locations, including cities, states, and zip codes