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Manufacturers, Distributors, Suppliers
ThomasNet Manufacturers, distributors and service providers in the U.S. and Canada. Many links to product catalogs.
Alibaba.com Global source for suppliers, producers, manufacturers, and distributors of all kinds of goods.
Benchmark Financials
- Bizminer This link opens in a new window
Startup and small business statistics, such as annual sales and market share, failure rates, & entrepreneurial activity rates. Reports available for states and local areas as well as the national level. Data includes access to 9000+ markets and more than 10 million companies.
Sales Forecasting
The PDMA handbook of new product development by
Publication Date: 2013See Chapter 16, "Forecasting New Products," pp. 265-281.New Product Forecasting: An Applied Approach by
Publication Date: 2006Limited Preview at Google Books.
Kahn, K.B. (2014). Solving the problems of new product forecasting. Business Horizons, 57:607-615. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2014.05.003
Fader, P. S. and Hardie, B. G. S. (2005). The value of simple models in new product forecasting and customer-base analysis. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 21: 461–473. doi: 10.1002/asmb.592
Fader, P. S. and Moe, W. W. (2002). Using advance purchase orders to forecast new product sales. Marketing Science, 21: 347-364.
