Scooter Industry
Question
I need to do an industry analysis on scooters. I keep finding things only on bikes or motorcycles.
Response
Take a look at the following article: online access is available via Gale Directory Library from the NCSU Libraries Databases > search for "scooters" > narrow to "Market Share Reporter".
"Scooter Market by Displacement, 2007." Market Share Reporter. Ed. Robert S. Lazich
The article above comes from a source called Dealer News, so I looked up the publication using Google and found a more recent article on the same topic that is freely available online:
Special Report: Scooters Suffering From a Hangover
Publish date: Jul 1, 2009
You can also do use the Power Search in Lexis Nexis Academic for news article related to the scooter industry. Some search strategies might include:
1) General tab > Search for "scooter w/sent (produc* or industr* or manufactur* or sale)" in Major World Publications > limit to (previous 2 years or previous year) > Show Expanded List and Sort by Relevance > limit geography to North America (if necessary).
2) News tab > Search for "scooter w/sent (produc* or industr* or manufactur* or sale)" in U.S. Newspapers and Wires > limit to previous year > Show Expanded List and Sort by Relevance.
3) News tab > Search for "scooter w/sent (produc* or industr* or manufactur* or sale)" in All Business News Publications > limit to previous year >Show Expanded List and Sort by Relevance.
These are only a few of the searches I've tried - there are overlapping results but always a few different ones that show up. You can vary the search by trying different keywords or index terms such as the following:
- Statistics
- Sales figures
- Sales projections
- Export prices
- Polls & surveys
- Marketing surveys
- Market size
You might try similar searches using the advanced search feature options in Business Source Premier, for instance, I turned up a few promising articles by searching for "MOTOR scooter industry".