Research Guides: Restaurant and Fast Food Industry: News

Top Business Databases

Below are databases that contain articles from hundreds of trade magazines. In all cases, one can limit results to trade journal articles only, but the risk is missing industry-related articles from other sources (e.g. business magazines, transcripts, newspaper articles, etc.).

ABI/INFORM Global
Indexes over 1800 business magazines and scholarly journals covering management, accounting, economics, and finance. Click on the “Topic Guide” tab at the top of the page to use a searchable thesaurus of industry names.
Business Source Complete
Search over 3,000 business magazines and trade journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
The database has a “Thesaurus” to help you choose industry names. Search for industry information using NAICS codes by changing the default field to "NAICS code or description."
Factiva
News from the Dow Jones wire services, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and more than 9,000 other newspapers, magazines and trade journals. Factiva is one of the largest databases covering global business news.
To search for industry news, use the “Industry Lookup” to select Factiva’s industry code. Combine this code with index terms like market share or industry trends/analysis from the “Subject Lookup."
Nexis Uni
NexisUni allows you to limit your search results to trade press articles only after you've done your initial search. Type in your search term(s) and click search.To the left of your search results, click on "Source Type" and then click on "Industry Trade Press"

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identify industry trends
analyze the competition
examine the political, legal, technological and environmental issues that affect industry operations
search for new product introductions
find merger & acquisition trends

Industry News

Trade journals, magazines written for practitioners in an industry, cover news and offer analysis from industry insiders.