Companies in this industry rent and lease passenger cars and trucks without drivers and utility trailers. Major companies include Avis Budget Group, Enterprise Holdings, Hertz Global Holdings, Ryder, and U-Haul (all based in the US), along with CAR Inc (China),...
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2023/26 | Drug Wholesalers
Companies in this industry serve as wholesale distributors of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, and related products. Major companies include AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson (all based in the US), as well as Jointown Pharmaceutical...
2023/24 | Footwear Manufacturing
Companies in this industry make footwear, including athletic, casual, and dress shoes, as well as boots, sandals, and slippers. Major companies include Nike, Skechers, and Wolverine Worldwide (all based in the US), along with Adidas and PUMA (both based in Germany),...
2023/23 | Lumber Wholesalers
Companies in this industry distribute lumber and plywood products, wood windows and doors, and millwork. Major US companies include Builders FirstSource, Forest City Trading Group, HD Supply, and Tumac Lumber. The US lumber wholesalers industry includes about 7,000...
2023/22 | Wood Product Manufacturing
Companies in this industry manufacture dimensional lumber; veneers, plywood, engineered wood members, or reconstituted wood products; wood windows and doors, wood flooring, or other millwork; wood containers; pallets; prefabricated wood buildings; or manufactured...
2023/21 | Automotive Repair & Maintenance Services
Companies in this industry provide repair and maintenance services for passenger cars and light trucks. Major US companies include Firestone Complete Auto Care (a unit of Bridgestone), Jiffy Lube, Meineke, Midas International, Monro Auto Service and Tire Centers, and...
2023/20 | Paint & Wallpaper Stores Home and Garden Retail
Companies in this industry sell paint, coatings, wallpaper, and related supplies. Major companies include the retail divisions of paint manufacturers Benjamin Moore, Kelly-Moore, and Sherwin-Williams (all based in the US), as well as Farrow & Ball (UK),...
2023/19 | Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing
Companies in this industry develop and manufacture biological, chemical, and radioactive substances used in the process of detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring health conditions. Major companies include Beckman Coulter and Bio-Rad Laboratories (both based in the US),...
2023/18 | Shoe stores
Companies in this industry primarily sell casual, dress, and athletic shoes, including orthopedic shoes, from physical retail locations. Major US companies include Caleres, DSW, Foot Locker, and Genesco. Some shoe manufacturers such as Nike, also have retail...
2023/17 | Restaurants and Bars specialising in the Coffee Shops subcategory
Companies in this industry sell coffee drinks and other food and beverages for consumption on the premises or for takeout. Major companies include Peet’s Coffee, Starbucks, and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (all based in the US), as well as Caffè Nero and Costa...
2023/16 | Food Manufacturing with specialization in the subcategory Coffee & Tea Manufacturing
Companies in this industry roast coffee, blend tea, and manufacture coffee and tea concentrates. Major companies include Farmer Brothers, JM Smucker, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Kraft Heinz (all based in the US), as well as ITO EN (Japan), Maxingvest ag (Germany), Nestlé...
2022/15 | Solar Electric Power Generation
Companies in this sector operate power plants that use energy from the sun to generate electricity. Major companies include diversified utilities and independent producers Berkshire Hathaway Energy, NextEra Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison...
2022/14 | Printing trades machinery – Printing Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing
Companies in this sector manufacture printing machinery and equipment, including printing presses and binding machines. Major companies include HP, Presstek and Xerox (all based in the US), Canon, Komori and Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho (all based in Japan). And web systems...
2022/13 | Motors and generators – Motor & Generator Manufacturing
Companies in this sector manufacture electric motors, power generators and motor generator sets. Major US companies include AMETEK, Franklin Electric and Regal Rexnord, as well as parts of Emerson Electric and GE Motors. Major companies based outside the US include...
2022/12 | Glass & Glass Product Manufacturing
Companies in this sector manufacture glass and other glass products , including glass containers, flat glass, glass wool and special glass products. Major companies include Corning, Guardian Industries and O-I Glass (all based in the US), as well as AGC (Japan),...
2022/11 | Women’s & Men’s Clothing Manufacturing, Women’s and misses’ blouses and shirts, Men’s and boy’s suits and coats
Companies in this sector make garments for women, girls and babies from fabrics they buy and from fabric they produce themselves. Major women's apparel companies include Calvin Klein (owned by PVH), Carter's, Hanesbrands, Kate Spade, Ralph Lauren, and VF Corporation...
2022/10 | Alkalies and chlorine-Industrial Chemical Manufacturing
Companies in this industry manufacture chemicals, which are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically defined compounds, using basic processes such as thermal cracking and distillation. Major companies include BASF (Germany), Dow (USA), Formosa...
2022/9 | Chemicals and allied products, n.e.c.-Chemical Wholesalers
Companies in this sector operate as wholesalers of plastic materials and a variety of other chemicals. Major companies include Tricon Energy and Univar Solutions (both US-based), Brenntag and HELM AG (both based in Germany), ITOCHU (Japan) and Sinochem (China). Most...
2022/8 | Electrical work – Electrical Contractors
Companies in this industry install and maintain electrical wiring and equipment. The major companies include Bergelectric, EMCOR, IES Holdings, MYR Group and Rosendin Electric (all based in the US). Electrical contractors worldwide are dependent on construction...
2022/7 | Educational computer software – Education & Training Software
Companies in this sector design, develop, market and support software used in education and training. Major companies include Anthology, Blackboard, Renaissance Learning, Rosetta Stone and SkillSoft (all based in the US) as well as software divisions of publishers...
2022/6 | Plastics materials and resins – Plastic Resin & Synthetic Fiber Manufacturing
Companies in this sector manufacture acrylics, amino resins, epoxies and other thermosets, as well as thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS). The major companies include Celanese, Chevron Phillips...
2022/5 | Nonresidential building operators
Companies in this sector manage commercial real estate. The major firms include CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL (all based in the US), as well as Colliers (Canada), IWG (Switzerland), Lendlease (Australia) and Mitsubishi Estate (Japan). The professionally...
2022/4 | Malt beverages – Breweries
Companies in this sector produce beer, ale, malted spirits and non-alcoholic beer. The major companies include AB InBev (Belgium), Asahi Breweries (Japan), Carlsberg Group (Denmark), China Resources and Tsingtao Brewery (both based in China), Heineken (Netherlands)...
2022/3 | Business oriented computer software
Companies in this industry design, develop, publish and support software used to collect, store, report and analyse data from various functions of a business. Major companies include Confluence, Insightsoftware, MicroStrategy, Qlik, SAS Institute and Tableau Software...
2022/1 | Scrap and waste materials Recyclable Material Wholesalers
Companies in this sector are engaged in the wholesale distribution of automotive scrap, industrial scrap and other recyclable materials. Major scrap wholesalers include America Chung Nam, Commercial Metals Company and The David J Joseph Company (all based in the US),...