B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information: 2007 Final Market Size and Share Report

Author: Chuck Richard, Vice President & Lead Analyst

B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information is a global market segment of the information industry sized at $25.6 billion in 2007. It ranks seventh in revenue among the professional information market segments in the information industry, and accounts for 6.6% of the total $387 billion industry revenue. It was also one of the slower growing market segments in 2007. This report provides Outsell’s final 2007 market size and share data for this segment and analyzes significant trends and issues facing top companies and their markets. It includes:

- 2007 revenue, growth rates, and market share estimates for the top 50 B2B Trade Publishing companies and top 25 Company Information publishers;
- Segmentation of the B2B Trade Publishing subsegment and the Company Information subsegment by content format, business models, and geography;
- Analysis of the competitive landscape, including Outsell’s take on promising companies in the segment;
- Analysis of factors driving and inhibiting demand in the B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information segment;
- Essential actions for publishers to succeed in this segment.

Outsell maintains and continuously updates a database of over 7,000 publishers and information providers worldwide and uses a supply-side methodology to size the information industry.

Open table of contents

Why This Market Size and Share Report?
Market Overview
B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Market Size

B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Subsegments

Segmentation of B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information

Content Format
Business Models
Geography

Leading Players

B2B Trade Publishing
Company Information
Factors Impacting Share
Impact of M&A
Market Share vs. Growth

Competitive Landscape

Market Leaders

Market Drivers and Inhibitors

Market Drivers
Market Inhibitors

Essential Actions
Related Research
Methodology and Definitions
Appendix

Tables & Figures

Table 1. Size of B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Segment Compared to Other Information Industry Segments
Figure 1. Share of Total Information Industry Revenue, 2007
Table 2. Currency Effects of Conversion from Pounds, Euros, and Yen into Dollars
Figure 2. B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Market Size and Growth, 2003-2007
Table 3. Revenue Performance of Top 10 Companies by Size
Table 4. Major B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Subsegments
Table 5. B2B Trade Publishing – Revenue Performance of Top 25 Companies by Size
Table 6. Company Information – Revenue Performance of Top 25 Companies by Size
Table 7. Top 10 B2B Trade Publishing Companies – Content Format
Table 8. Top 10 Company Information Companies – Content Format
Table 9. Top 10 B2B Trade Publishing Companies – Business Models
Table 10. Top 10 Company Information Companies – Business Models
Table 11. Top 10 B2B Trade Publishing Companies – Geography
Table 12. Top 10 Company Information Companies – Geography
Figure 3. Top 10 B2B Trade Publishing Companies – Growth and Market Share
Figure 4. Top 10 Company Information Companies – Growth and Market Share
Figure 5. Outsell’s B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Leader Board – Mapping the Companies Positioned to Lead
Figure 6. Total Marketing Budget Share and Growth, 2007
Figure 7. B2B Trade Publishing Revenue by Format, 2003-2007
Table 13. Top 50 B2B Trade Publishing Companies
Table 14. Top 25 Company Information Companies