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Using MarketLine Advantage

Choosing Industry Analysis

MarketLine Advantage has several main types of Analysis:

  • Industry Profiles: Provides a comprehensive profile on an industry for the current year. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends and leading companies.
  • Industry Profiles-Archived: Provides a comprehensive profile on an industry for previous years. Includes industry size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of industry growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
  • Industry Chartbooks: Provides comprehensive data on an industry over time. Includes data, charts and analysis from market indicators within the industry, including market value, historical performance and forecasts, industry segmentation, and financial charts of the leading companies.
  • Industry Case Studies: Provides an in-depth analysis of a specific topic within an industry. 
  • Value & Supply Chain Analysis: Provides an overview of supply chains for a specific industry. Highlights stages involved, provides examples of companies at every step in the supply chain, and assesses issues relevant to each stage. Stages analyzed vary depending on industry. 

Which type of Analysis you choose depends on what kind of information you require for your research.

Industry Analysis in MarketLine Advantage

To view Industry Analysis in MarketLine, go to the Analysis tab at the top of the screen. From the list of options, choose Industry Analysis.

MarketLine Advantage main banner menu with Industry Analysis highlighted.

Here, you can choose to view Industry Profiles and Archived Industry Profiles, Industry Chartbooks, Industry Case Studies, and Value & Supply Chain Analysis.

Searching for Industry Analysis

To view Analyses for your industry research, go to the Analysis tab on the main menu banner. Then, choose the menu option for Industry Analysis. Finally, click which type of analysis best fits your needs For an overview of the types of Analysis covered by MarketLine Advantage, see the list to the left.

MarketLine Industry Analysis menu highlighted with list of options display: Industry Profiles,  Industry Case Studies, and Supply Chain Analysis.Industry Profiles-Archived, Industry Chartbooks,

Use the search box to search for key words related to the industry you are researching. Use the Sector menu to refine results by industry sector. Use the Geography menu to refine results to a geographical region. Use the Analysis Type menu to limit or expand results by which types of analyses are retrieved. Use the Date menu to limit results to a range of dates. When you are finished refining your search results, click the search button.

MarketLine Analysis search with refinement options and search button highlighted.

A list of Analysis reports matching your search criteria will be displayed. To access the Analysis, click the title of the report. To download the Analysis, click the export option buttons to download the report as a Microsoft Word Document or PDF.

MarketLine Analysis record displayed with export options and hyperlink to access report highlighted.