Hello, I would like to find,, for a couple of industries (food and
beverage and electrical equipment, potentially for other industries if
the data is there) the following info, for the USA only. The data
needs to be referencable (ie, it has to say that the source is XXX).
I need to get the data by end of day of Dec 5.
company size $250m-$500m $500m-$1B $1B+
number of companies
average number of factories per company |
Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 12:53 PST
Ronnyd --
The best data is split along the lines of NAICS codes (they used to be
called SIC codes). Food and beverage can be a retail business
(restaurants), a wholesale business, or a manufacturer. Which would
you like?
The splits won't match your company size splits here, as the largest
retail establishments are "more than $10 million" in revenue.
A similar problem exists with electrical equipment: how far does the
definition go? I'm assuming that you're seeking manufacturers here
but does it include, for example, manufacturers of semiconductor
equipment?
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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Clarification of Question by
ronnyd-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 13:38 PST
Omnivorours:
Good question. Its about food and beverage manufacturers, only, not
retail.
The company size is like, the sales of kraft food or nabisco or
whatever. So they would meet the size splits I have defined.
Note I did not find this data on the census website, they only have #
of establishements, not # of establishments per company.
In food and bev, it is SIC Codes 2000-2099 and maybe it is hard to
define electrical equipment - does not include semiconductor
equiprment.
thx!
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Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 13:46 PST
Ronnyd --
First: are you familiar with the 1997 Economic Census data for
manufacturers (on the www.census.gov website)? It gets one pretty far
in this; though if you're trying to classify companies above $250M you
really need to rely on Fortune 1000 data (number 1000 is a retailer
with revenues of $1.2 billion) or Standard & Poor's data.
Can you work the two databases together?
I'm kinda frozen here until we see how far the 1997 Economic Cenus
(for manufacturers) takes you. Unfortunately the typical references
for large companies won't list "factories" but rather "facilities,"
which could include R&D centers; office buildings; service centers
etc.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 13:48 PST
That last sentence above was meant to refer to Fortune/S&P data, which
would list owned/leased facilities, without specifying factory vs.
other use.
Again, let me know what specifically we should pursue.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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Clarification of Question by
ronnyd-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 14:00 PST
O- I looked all over census.gov and do not find the info. If you look
at http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97/us/US000_31.HTM#N311
It shows # of facilities (if you can't find # of factories, i think we
can extrapolate from # of facilities ) but where it had no data was in
1. the number of facilities per company.
2. (above) broken out by size of company.
(which is what i need. if you can find # per company by size of
company, please make it happen.
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Request for Question Clarification by
omnivorous-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 14:53 PST
Ronnyd –
The data is probably there to do the job for you, it's just in another
spot. Google hates for us to "test fly" an answer, but in this case
it seems to be necessary.
This is a VERY large 193-page Adobe Acrobat document that has much of
the material that I think you're seeking, though not as cleanly split
as in your question. There is revenue information in here (usually
averaged for a group of companies) but it's more oriented to company
size by EMPLOYEES:
1997 U.S. Economic Census
Manufacturing: General Summary (June, 2001)
http://www.census.gov/prod/ec97/97m31s-gs.pdf
There are several other manufacturing reports that may help as well,
but this would be the foundation. Hopefully you have a high-speed
connection and high-speed printer that will help you digest this
report. Remember: you can print Acrobat files by pages too.
Here's the organization:
Table 1-1: pages 1-28 (in Acrobat) summarizing how many factories by
manufacturing sector
Table 1-2: page 29-42, factories by sector by state
Table 1-3: pages 43-50, by size (number of employees)
Table 1-4: pages 51-55, by size with revenues
Tables 2-1 through 2-3: pages 53-79 state and metropolitan area
breakdowns
Tables 3-1 through 3-3: pages 80-85 inventory and organization
structure statistics
85-193: appendices
Take a look to see if this data is useful. There are several other
Census reports that may add to it but if this doesn't start to get you
to an answer, I'm not going to be able to help with this question.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
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Clarification of Question by
ronnyd-ga
on
04 Dec 2002 16:14 PST
OK, I will guess that this data does not exist. Thanks anyway, I'll
withdraw the request.
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