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

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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.


Pub Date: August 6, 2008
Type: Market Size & Share Report
Segment: B2B
Keywords: Market Analysis, Market Statistics, Professional Publishing
Pages: 45
Format: PDF Application_pdf

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Table of Contents

  • Why This Market Size and Share Report?
  • Market Overview
  • B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Market Size
    1. B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information Subsegments
  • Segmentation of B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information
    1. Content Format
    2. Business Models
    3. Geography
  • Leading Players
    1. B2B Trade Publishing
    2. Company Information
    3. Factors Impacting Share
    4. Impact of M&A
    5. Market Share vs. Growth
  • Competitive Landscape
    1. Market Leaders
  • Market Drivers and Inhibitors
    1. Market Drivers
    2. 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

Companies Mentioned

  1. Acxiom Corporation
  2. American List Counsel, Inc.
  3. Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT)
  4. Emap Ltd
  5. Equifax Inc.
  6. Experian plc
  7. Harte-Hanks CI Technology Database
  8. Hemscott Group Limited
  9. Infodata AB
  10. Infogroup, Inc.
  11. Informa, plc
  12. International Data Group (IDG)
  13. Nielsen Business Media
  14. Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
  15. Springer Science + Business Media
  16. Teikoku Databank Ltd. (Takeo, K. K.)
  17. The D&B Corporation
  18. The Hearst Corporation
  19. United Business Media plc
  20. Vogel Media GmbH & Co.KG