Dun & Bradstreet’s Industry Research Service (IRS) is a product-cum-service offering from the Economic Analysis Group. The IRS provides comprehensive analyses of various industries & their dynamics towards assessing the growth potential and profitability in the broad regulatory & policy environment.

D&B's IRS focuses on the strategic considerations of the industries, including competition and risk assessment that would provide valuable insights to various stakeholders such as investors, financial institutions, banks, corporates broking firms. The in-depth analytical content will also be useful to the industry practitioners, academicians & scholars.

D&B’s Industry Report comprehensively covers the entire gamut of issues concerning a particular sector in terms of  Four Sections:

• Industry Dynamics
  
  Pure play focus on business operations of Indian industry in the overall regulatory & policy environment



• Global Perspective
  
  International linkages with focus on key regions/ trading partners/ countries



• Industry Performance
  
  Performance analysis on the basis of key financial indicators



• Strategic Insight
  
  Judging the overall industry attractiveness in terms of growth opportunities, profitability, competitive landscape & risk assessment

The structural content of the report is in the form of chapters, each highlighting a specific aspect of the industry in detail, bound by the overall objective of assessing the industry attractiveness:

• Industry Dynamics

                Industry Structure –Then & Now
                Regulatory & Policy Environment
                Supply Side Dynamics
                Demand Side Dynamics

• Global Perspective

                Global Scenario
                International Trade

• Financial Analysis

• Strategic Insight

                Competition Analysis
                Risks Analysis
                Outlook