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“Agribusiness M&A Advisory Firm of the Year 2014”

– Corporate Intl Magazine

Agribusiness, Food and Beverage

Sector Specialization:

• Production
              
              
• Apiculture
• Aquaculture
• Apple Orchards
• Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming
• Berry Farming
• Broilers and Other Meat Type Chicken Production
• Cattle Feedlots
• Chicken Egg Production
• Citrus (except Orange) Groves
• Corn Farming
• Cotton Farming
• Cotton Ginning
• Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine
• Dairy Cattle and Milk Production
• Dry Pea and Bean Farming
• Dual-Purpose Cattle Ranching and Farming
• Farm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders
• Farm Management Services
• Finfish Fishing
• Floriculture Production
• Fruit and Tree Nut Combination Farming
• Goat Farming
• Grape Vineyards
• Hay Farming
• Hog and Pig Farming
• Horses and Other Equine Production
• Mushroom Production
• Nursery and Tree Production
• Oilseed (except Soybean) Farming
• Oilseed and Grain Combination Farming
• Orange Groves
• Peanut arming
• Potato Farming
• Poultry Hatcheries
• Rice Farming
• Sheep Farming
• Shellfish Farming
• Shellfish Fishing
• Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating
• Soybean Farming
• Strawberry Farming
• Sugar Beet Farming
• Sugarcane Farming
• Tobacco Farming
• Tree Nut Farming
• Turkey Production
• Wheat Farming
• Manufacturing
              
              
• Agricultural machinery and equipment
• Alcoholic beverage making equipment and supplies
• All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
• Animal Slaughtering
• Beet Sugar Manufacturing
• Bottled Water Manufacturing
• Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing
• Breweries
• Brewery products manufacturing machinery, commercial
• Cane Sugar Manufacturing
• Cheese Manufacturing
• Chocolate and Confectionery from Cacao Beans
• Citrus processing machinery
• Coffee and Tea Manufacturing
• Commercial Bakeries
• Confectionery Manufacturing from Purchased Chocolate
• Cookie and Cracker Manufacturing
• Cream separators, farm
• Creamery Butter Manufacturing
• Crop Biotechnology and Engineering
• Cultivating machinery and equipment
• Dairy machinery and equipment
• Distilleries
• Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing
• Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing
• Dry Pasta, Dough, Flour Mixes from Purchased Flour
• Dry, Condensed, and Evaporated Dairy Product
• Farm and garden machinery
• Farm equipment parts and supplies
• Farm implements
• Fats and Oils Refining and Blending
• Fish processing machinery, equipment and supplies
• Flavoring Syrup and Concentrate Manufacturing
• Flour Milling
• Fluid Milk Manufacturing
• Food industry machinery
• Food product manufacturing machinery
• Frozen Cakes, Pies, and Other Pastries Manufacturing
• Frozen Fruit, Juice, and Vegetable Manufacturing
• Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing
• Fruit and Vegetable Canning
• Garden machinery and equipment, nec
• Grain elevators equipment and supplies
• Harvesting machinery and equipment, nec
• Haying machinery
• Hydroponic equipment and supplies
• Ice Cream and Frozen Dessert Manufacturing
• Ice Manufacturing
• Industrial machinery and equipment
• Irrigation equipment
• Land preparation machinery, agricultural
• Landscaping equipment
• Lawn and garden machinery and equipment
• Lawn machinery and equipment
• Livestock equipment
• Malt Manufacturing
• Mayonnaise, Other Prepared Sauce Manufacturing
• Meat Processed from Carcasses / Futher Processing
• Milk products manufacturing machinery and equipment
• Milking machinery and equipment
• Mowers, power
• Non-chocolate Confectionery Manufacturing
• Other Animal Food Manufacturing
• Other Snack Food Manufacturing
• Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing
• Planting machinery and equipment
• Poultry and livestock equipment
• Poultry equipment
• Poultry Processing
• Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
• Retail Bakeries
• Rice Milling
• Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing
• Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging
• Shears, farm and garden
• Soft Drink Manufacturing
• Soybean and Other Oilseed Processing
• Specialty Canning
• Spice and Extract Manufacturing
• Tortilla Manufacturing
• Tractor-mounting equipment
• Tractors, agricultural
• Wet Corn Milling
• Wind machines (frost protection equipment)
• Wineries
• Wholesale Trade
              
              
• Auctioning livestock
• Bakery products
• Baking supplies
• Banana ripening
• Barley
• Beans, dry: bulk
• Beans, unshelled
• Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers
• Beverage concentrates
• Beverages, except coffee and tea
• Breading mixes
• Breakfast cereals
• Bristles
• Broomcorn
• Butter
• Candy
• Canned goods: fruit, vegetables, seafood, meats, etc.
• Cat food
• Cattle
• Cheese
• Chewing gum
• Chicks
• Chocolate
• Cocoa
• Coffee and tea
• Coffee, green or roasted
• Condiments
• Confectionery
• Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers
• Confectionery, nec
• Cookies
• Cooking oils
• Cooking oils and shortenings
• Corn
• Corn chips
• Corn husks
• Cotton merchants
• Cotton or cotton linters, country buyers
• Cotton, raw
• Crackers
• Crackers, cookies, and bakery products
• Dairy depot
• Dairy Product (except Dried or Canned) Wholesalers
• Dairy products, dried or canned
• Dairy products, except dried or canned
• Diet foods
• Dinners, frozen
• Dog food
• Dried beet pulp
• Dried or canned foods
• Eggs
• Eggs: cleaning, oil treating, packing, and grading
• Farm animals
• Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
• Farm-product raw materials, nec
• Farm-product raw materials, nec, nec
• Feathers
• Feathers, hides, and pelts
• Fibers, vegetable
• Field beans
• Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers
• Fish and seafoods
• Fish, cured
• Fish, fresh
• Fish, frozen, unpackaged
• Fish, frozen: packaged
• Flavorings and fragrances
• Flour
• Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists’ Supplies
• Food brokers
• Food gift baskets
• Fountain supplies
• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers
• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Frozen dairy desserts
• Frozen fish, meat, and poultry
• Frozen vegetables and fruit products
• Fruit juices, frozen
• Fruit peel
• Fruit pies, frozen
• Fruits
• Fruits, dried
• Fruits, fountain
• Fruits, fresh
• Fruits, frozen
• Furs, raw
• Goats
• Grain and field beans
• Grain elevators
• Grains
• Groceries, general line
• Health foods
• Hides
• Hogs
• Honey
• Hop extract
• Hops
• Horses
• Ice cream and ices
• Juices
• Lard
• Livestock
• Livestock Merchant Wholesalers
• Macaroni
• Malt
• Malt extract
• Margarine
• Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers
• Meat brokers
• Meat pies, frozen
• Meat, frozen: packaged
• Meats and meat products
• Meats, cured or smoked
• Meats, fresh
• Milk and cream, fluid
• Milk cooling stations
• Milk depot
• Milk, canned or dried
• Mineral or spring water bottling
• Mohair, raw
• Molasses, industrial
• Moss
• Mules
• Natural and organic foods
• Nuts and nut by-products
• Nuts, salted or roasted
• Nuts, unprocessed or shelled only
• Oats
• Oil nuts, kernels, seeds
• Oleomargarine
• Organic and diet food
• Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers
• Packaged frozen goods
• Packaged frozen goods, nec
• Pasta and rice
• Peanuts (bulk), unroasted
• Pecan shellers
• Pelts
• Pet foods
• Pickles, preserves, jellies, and jams
• Pizza supplies
• Popcorn and supplies
• Potato chips
• Potatoes, fresh
• Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers
• Poultry and poultry products
• Poultry pies, frozen
• Poultry products, nec
• Poultry, frozen: packaged
• Poultry: live, dressed or frozen (unpackaged)
• Pretzels
• Rapeseed
• Rice, polished
• Rice, unpolished
• Salad dressing
• Salt, edible
• Sandwich supplies
• Sandwiches
• Sauces
• Sausage casings
• Seafoods
• Seasonings, sauces, and extracts
• Semen, bovine
• Sheep
• Shortening, vegetable
• Silk, raw
• Skins, raw
• Snack foods
• Snack foods
• Soft drinks
• Soup, frozen
• Soups, except frozen
• Soybeans
• Spaghetti
• Specialty food items
• Spices and seasonings
• Starch
• Sugar, honey, molasses, and syrups
• Sugar, raw
• Sugar, refined
• Syrups, except for fountain use
• Syrups, fountain
• Tea
• Tea bagging
• Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers
• Tobacco auctioning and warehousing
• Tobacco distributors and products
• Tobacco, leaf
• Toppings, soda fountain
• Vegetables, fresh
• Vegetables, frozen
• Water, distilled
• Wet corn milling products
• Wheat
• Wild rice
• Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Wholesalers
• Wine makers’ equipment and supplies
• Wool and silk
• Wool tops
• Wool, raw
• Yeast
• Yogurt
• Retail Trade
              
              
• Bagel Shops
• Baked Goods Stores
• Beer, Wine, and Liquor Stores
• Beverage stores
• Bread Stores
• Cake Storess
• Candy
• Candy, nut, and confectionery stores
• Coffee
• Confectionery
• Confectionery and Nut Stores
• Confectionery produced for direct sale on the premises
• Convenience Stores
• Convenience stores
• Cookie Stores
• Cooperative food stores
• Dairy products stores
• Dairy products stores, nec
• Delicatessen stores
• Dietetic foods
• Doughnut Shops
• Dried fruit
• Eggs and poultry
• Fish and Seafood Markets
• Fish and seafood markets
• Fish markets
• Food (Health) Supplement Stores
• Food and freezer plans, meat
• Food gift baskets
• Freezer provisioners, meat
• Frozen food and freezer plans, except meat
• Fruit and Vegetable Markets
• Fruit and vegetable markets
• Fruit and vegetable markets, nec
• Fruit stands or markets
• Gourmet food stores
• Grocery Stores
• Health and dietetic food stores
• Health foods
• Juices, fruit or vegetable
• Meat and fish markets
• Meat Markets
• Meat markets, including freezer provisioners
• Miscellaneous food stores, nec
• Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores
• Nuts
• Pastry Shops
• Pie Shops
• Popcorn, including caramel corn
• Pretzel Shops
• Retail bakeries
• Seafood markets
• Soft drinks
• Spices and herbs
• Supermarkets
• Tea
• Vegetable stands or markets
• Vitamin food stores
• Water: distilled mineral or spring

Automotive

Sector Specialization:

• Manufacturing
             
             
• Aftermarket Components
• Air brake systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Auto parts
• Automatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Battery manufacturing
• Bearings (e.g., camshaft, crankshaft, connecting rod), and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brake cylinders, master and wheel, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brake discs (rotor), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brake drums, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Brakes
• Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Catalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers
• Chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers
• Compact disc players (e.g., automotive, household-type) manufacturing
• Connecting rods, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Constant velocity joints, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Convertible tops for , truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Crankshaft assemblies, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Cruise control mechanisms, electronic, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Cylinder heads, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Detailing services (i.e., cleaning and polishing),
• Diagnostic centers without repair,
• Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Drive shafts and half shafts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Dynamos, electric , manufacturing
• Electrical engine diagnostic equipment manufacturing
• Electrical repair shops,
• Electrical switches manufacturing
• Electronics
• Emissions testing equipment manufacturing
• Emissions testing services
• Emissions testing without repair,
• Engine block assemblies, and truck gasoline, manufacturing
• Engine repair and replacement shops,
• Engines ; Parts
• Engines and parts (except diesel), and truck, manufacturing
• Engines and parts, automotive, new, merchant wholesalers
• Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel ), manufacturing
• Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, ), merchant wholesalers
• Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Fans, electric cooling, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Filters (e.g., air, engine oil, fuel) , truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Flywheels and ring gears, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Fuel injection systems and parts, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Fuel pumps, electric, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Fuel pumps, mechanical, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Gas tanks assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Gasoline engine parts, mechanical, and truck, manufacturing
• Gasoline engines (except aircraft, automotive, truck) manufacturing
• Gasoline engines, and truck, manufacturing
• Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Glass coating and tinting contractors
• Glass, automotive, made from purchased glass
• Glass, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Governors for gasoline engines manufacturing
• Harness and ignition sets manufacturing
• Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Hoists, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Hydraulic slave cylinders, automotive, truck, and bus clutch, manufacturing
• Instrument control panels (i.e., assembling purchased gauges), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel , nondiesel truck) manufacturing
• Internal combustion engines, and truck gasoline, manufacturing
• Iron & Steel
• Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing
• Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Keyless entry systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Light bulbs manufacturing
• Light bulbs, sealed beam , manufacturing
• Lighting fixtures manufacturing
• Luggage racks, car top, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Manifolds (i.e., intake and exhaust), and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Measuring and testing equipment () merchant wholesalers
• Metal stampings, unfinished, manufacturing
• Mirrors () merchant wholesalers
• Mirrors, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Mirrors, framed or unframed, made from purchased glass
• Mirrors, framed, manufacturing
• Motor generator sets (, turbine generator sets) manufacturing
• Mufflers and resonators, automotive, truck, and buses manufacturing
• Oil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Paint
• Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Pressure and clutch plate assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Pumps (e.g., fuel, oil, power steering, water), automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Pumps (e.g., fuel, oil, water), mechanical, and truck gasoline engine (except power steering), manufacturing
• Racks (e.g., bicycle, luggage, ski, tire), automotive, truck, and buses manufacturing
• Reduction gears and gear units (except aircraft power transmission equipment, ) manufacturing
• Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing
• Rocker arms and parts, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Sealed beam light bulbs manufacturing
• Seat covers, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Stampings (, cans, coins), metal, unfinished, manufacturing
• Steering & Suspension
• Steering columns, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Struts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Sunroofs and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Testing and measuring equipment, electrical (), merchant wholesalers
• Theft alarm systems manufacturing
• Timing gears and chains, and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing
• Tops, convertible , manufacturing
• Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Transmission
• Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing
• Truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing
• Universal joints, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Vacuum brake booster, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Wheels (i.e., rims), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Wheels, steering, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Windshield washer pumps, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Windshield wiper systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
• Wire and cable (except aluminum, copper) made from purchased nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) in wire drawing plants
• Wire and cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants
• Wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants
• Rebuilding
                           
• Engines, automotive and truck gasoline
• Engines, truck diesel
• Transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus
• Retailing, Parts and Components
                           
• Audio equipment stores
• Batteries, automotive, dealers
• Parts and accessories dealers,
• Parts dealers, used
• Tire dealers
• Tire repair (except retreading) shops
• Services
                           
• Air-conditioning repair shops
• Antique and classic automotive restoration
• Audio equipment installation contractors
• Body shops
• Brake repair shops
• Detailing services (i.e., cleaning, polishing)
• Electrical repair shops
• Engine repair and replacement shops
• Exhaust system repair and replacement shops
• Exhaust system repair and replacement shops,
• Front end alignment shops
• Front end alignment shops,
• Garages, do-it-yourself repair
• Garages, general repair (except gasoline service stations)
• General repair shops
• Glass installation contractors
• Glass installation, repair
• Glass shops
• Glass tinting,
• Glass work,
• Interior repair shops,
• Lubrication shops,
• Oil change and lubrication shops,
• Paint shops
• Paint shops,
• Parts and supply stores
• Pollution testing ( emissions testing) services
• Radiator repair shops
• Radio repair, automotive, without retailing new
• Repair and replacement shops, general
• Restoration shops, antique and classic
• Rustproofing and undercoating shops
• Safety inspection services
• Stereo stores
• Suspension repair shops,
• Tire repair shops (except retreading),
• Transmission repair shops
• Tune-up shops
• Upholstery shops
• Washing and polishing
• Welding repair services (e.g., automotive, general)
• Wheel alignment shops,
• Window tinting,
• Wholesalers
                           

• Air-conditioners merchant wholesalers
• Batteries, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers
• Chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers
• Engines and parts, automotive, new, merchant wholesalers
• Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, ), merchant wholesalers
• Glass, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Hoists, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel , nondiesel truck) merchant wholesalers
• Measuring and testing equipment () merchant wholesalers
• Mirrors () merchant wholesalers
• Oil filters, automotive, merchant wholesalers
• Parts, new, merchant wholesalers
• Radios merchant wholesalers
• Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers
• Storage batteries, merchant wholesalers
• Testing and measuring equipment, electrical (), merchant wholesalers

Cleantech

Commercial Aviation

Consumer, Retail, and Distribution

Sector Specialization:

• Distribution
• Retail
• Consumer Products

Construction Materials

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– Acquisition International Magazine

Defense

Sector Specialization:

                        
                        

• Aerospace
• Avionics
• Communications
• Electronics
• IT
• Land Systems
• Ordnance
• Robotics
• Sensors
• Software

Distribution

Electronics

Extractive Energy

Sector Specialization:

• Oil & Gas: Upstream
                           
• Contract Drilling Services
• Chemical Well Treatment
• Crude Petroleum Exploration
• Crude Petroleum Extraction
• Liquid Natural Gas Extraction
• Natural Gas Exploration
• Oil Drilling and Gas Extraction Services
• Oil and Gas Drilling Services
• Pressure Pumping
• Well Surveying
• Well Cementing
• Oil & Gas: Midstream
                           
• Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction
• Oilfield Support Services
• Oil and Gas: Downstream
                           
• Crude Petroleum Distribution
• Gasoline and Petroleum Bulk Stations
• Gasoline and Petroleum Wholesaling
• Natural Gas Distribution
• Refining
• Retailing
• Oil & Gas: Oilfield Services
                           
• Chemical Well Treatment
• Contract Drilling Services
• Oil Drilling and Gas Extraction Services
• Oil and Gas Drilling Services
• Oil and Gas Field Services
• Oilfield Support Services
• Oil & Gas: Machinery Manufacturing
                           
• Derrick Manufacturing
• Drill Pipe Manufacturing
• Drilling Platform Manufacturing
• Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment Manufacturing
• Offshore Drilling Rig Manufacturing
• Onshore Drilling Rig Manufacturing
• Petrochemical Manufacturing
• Portable Drilling Rig Manufacturing
• Rotary Drilling Rig Manufacturing
• Seamless Pipe Manufacturing
• Seamless Tube Manufacturing
• Substructure Manufacturing
• Coal Mining

Financial Sponsors

Healthcare

Sector Specialization:

• Biotechnology
                           

• Biological Therapy
• Biomaterial
• Biopharmaceutical
• Genetically Modified Organism, GMO
• Genomics

• Healthcare IT
                           

• e-Healthcare
• Revenue Cycle Management

• Medical Devices
                           

• Cardiovascular Devices
• Dental Equipment
• Diagnostics
• Medical Equipment and Supply
• Ophthalmic Devices
• Orthopedic
• Respiratory Devices
• Surgical Equipment

• Pharmaceutical
                           

• Drug and Medication
• Drug Delivery Technology
• Drug Discovery and Development
• Generic Drug
• Over-The-Counter Drug
• Pathology
• Pharmacies and Drug Stores
• Prescription Drug
• Therapy
• Vitamin and Supplement

• Other Healthcare
                           

• Alternative Medicine
• Blood Supply, Tissue Banking and Transplantation
• General Medicine and Specialty Medicine
• Healthcare Facilities
• Healthcare Services
• Managed care
• Veterinary healthcare

Healthy and Sustainable Living

Hospitality

Industrials

Sector Specialization:

                           

• Advanced Manufacturing
• Automotive and Heavy Duty Truck
• Building / Construction Materials
• Building products
• Capital Goods
• Chemicals
• Commercial / Specialty Vehicle
• Electrical Equipment
• Equipment and manufacturing
• Filtration / Water Treatment
• Flow and Process Control
• Forest products
• General Industrial
• Industrial and Environmental Services
• Industrials
• Machinery / Capital Goods
• Materials
• Metals & Metals Processing
• Natural Resources and Mining
• Packaging
• Paper, Plastics, and Packaging
• Plastic / Polymer Processing
• Power Connectivity and Control
• Renewable energy
• Steel
• Test and Measurement
• Transportation Equipment
• Transportation

Metals & Mining

Sector Specialization:

                           

• Alumina Refining and Primary Aluminum Production
• Aluminum Foundries (except Die-Casting)
• Aluminum Sheet, Plate, and Foil Manufacturing
• Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing
• Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing
• Copper Rolling, Drawing, Extruding, and Alloying
• Custom Roll Forming
• Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, Anodizing, and Coloring
• Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing
• Fluid Power Valve and Hose Fitting Manufacturing
• Hardware Manufacturing
• Industrial Valve Manufacturing
• Iron and Steel Forging
• Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
• Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel
• Iron Foundries
• Machine Shops
• Metal Can Manufacturing
• Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers
• Metal Crown, Closure, and Other Metal Stamping (except Automotive)
• Metal Heat Treating
• Metal Kitchen Cookware, Utensil, Cutlery, and Flatware (except Precious) Manufacturing
• Metal Tank (Heavy Gauge) Manufacturing
• Metal Window and Door Manufacturing
• Nonferrous Forging
• Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting and Refining
• Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding
• Nonferrous Metal Die-Casting Foundries
• Ornamental and Architectural Metal Work Manufacturing
• Other Aluminum Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding
• Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing
• Other Metal Container Manufacturing
• Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing
• Other Nonferrous Metal Foundries (except Die-Casting)
• Plate Work Manufacturing
• Plumbing Fixture Fitting and Trim Manufacturing
• Powder Metallurgy Part Manufacturing
• Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing
• Precision Turned Product Manufacturing
• Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing
• Rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing
• Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing
• Secondary Smelting and Alloying of Aluminum
• Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
• Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing
• Spring Manufacturing
• Steel Foundries (except Investment)
• Steel Investment Foundries
• Steel Wire Drawing

Paper

Sector Specialization:

                           

• Absorbent paper stock manufacturing
• Asphalt saturated mats and felts made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
• Asphalt paper made in paper mills
• Bags (except plastics only) made by laminating or coating combinations of purchased plastics, foil and paper
• Bags, coated paper, made from purchased paper
• Bags, multiwall, made from purchased uncoated paper
• Bags, uncoated paper, made from purchased paper
• Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Bags, paper, uncoated, made from purchased paper
• Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing
• Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard
• Bond paper made from purchased paper
• Bond paper made in paper mills
• Book (e.g., hardback, paperback, tape) publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing)
• Book paper made by coating purchased paper
• Book paper, coated, made from purchased paper
• Book paper, coated, made in paper mills
• Boxes and crates, industrial (except disposable plastics, paperboard, waste), merchant wholesalers
• Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard
• Boxes, sanitary food (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Boxes, setup (i.e., not shipped flat), made from purchased paperboard
• Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard
• Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Bristols paper stock manufacturing
• Building paper merchant wholesalers
• Building paper stock manufacturing
• Carbon paper manufacturing
• Cardboard, laminated or surface coated, made from purchased paperboard
• Cards, die-cut office supply (e.g., index, library, time recording), made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Cartons, folding made from purchased paperboard
• Cartons, paper and paperboard, merchant wholesalers
• Chipboard (i.e., paperboard) stock manufacturing
• Chipboard, laminated or surface coated, made from purchased paperboard
• Cigarette paper made from purchased paper
• Cigarette paper made in paper mills
• Cigarette paper, book, made from purchased paper
• Closures, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Coated board made from purchased paperboard
• Coated board made in paperboard mills
• Coating purchased papers for nonpackaging applications (except photosensitive paper)
• Coating purchased papers for packaging applications
• Coffee filters made from purchased paper
• Commercial paper dealing (i.e., acting as a principal in dealing securities to investors)
• Computer paper supplies merchant wholesalers
• Computer paper, single layered continuous, die-cut, made from purchased paper
• Cones (e.g., winding yarn, string, ribbon, cloth), fiber, made from purchased paperboard
• Confetti made from purchased paper
• Construction paper, school and art
• Containers, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Converted paper merchant wholesalers
• Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard
• Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Corrugated and solid fiberboard pads made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Corrugated paper made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Cotton fiber paper stock manufacturing
• Crepe paper made from purchased paper
• Cups, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing
• Deinking recovered paper
• Diapers (except paper) merchant wholesalers
• Diapers, disposable, made from purchased paper or textile fiber
• Diapers, disposable, made in paper mills
• Diapers, paper, merchant wholesalers
• Diazo (i.e., whiteprint) paper and cloth, sensitized, manufacturing
• Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Die-cut paper products for office use made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Dishes, household-type (except disposable plastics, paper), merchant wholesalers
• Dishes, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Doilies, paper, made from purchased paper
• Ecclesiastical statuary, paper mache, manufacturing
• Envelope paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers
• Facial tissues made from purchased paper
• Facial tissues made in paper mills
• Felts, asphalt, made in paper mills
• Fiber cans and drums (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material) made from purchased paperboard
• Fiber drums made from purchased paperboard
• Fiber spools, reels, blocks made from purchased paperboard
• Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard
• File folders (e.g., accordion, expanding, hanging, manila) made from purchased paper and paperboard
• Filter papers merchant wholesalers
• Filters, paper, made from purchased paper
• Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers
• Flexible packaging sheet materials made by coating or laminating purchased paper
• Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard
• Folding paper and paperboard containers (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard
• Food containers, sanitary (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard
• Forms, paper (e.g., business, office, sales), merchant wholesalers
• Gift wrapping paper merchant wholesalers
• Glassine wrapping paper made from purchased paper
• Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills
• Grocers’ bags and sacks made from purchased uncoated paper
• Groundwood paper products (e.g., publication and printing paper, tablet stock, wallpaper base) made in newsprint mills
• Groundwood paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers
• Groundwood paper, coated, laminated, or treated in paper mills
• Groundwood paper, coated, made from purchased paper
• Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills
• Groundwood paper, newsprint, made in paper mills
• Gummed paper products (e.g., labels, sheets, tapes) made from purchased paper
• Handkerchiefs (except paper) cut and sew apparel contractors
• Handkerchiefs (except paper) cut and sewn from purchased fabric
• Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper
• Hats made from purchased paper
• Heat sensitized (i.e., thermal) paper made from purchased paper
• Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers
• Insulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper
• Kraft paper stock manufacturing
• Laminating purchased paperboard
• Laminating purchased papers for nonpackaging applications
• Laminating purchased papers for packaging applications
• Leatherboard (i.e., paperboard based) made from purchased paperboard
• Leatherboard (i.e., paperboard based) made in paperboard mills
• Looseleaf fillers and paper made from purchased paper
• Looseleaf fillers and paper made in paper mills
• Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard
• Manila folders, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Masking tape made from purchased paper
• Milk carton board made in paperboard mills
• Milk carton board stock made from purchased paperboard
• Napkins (except paper) merchant wholesalers
• Napkins, table, made from purchased paper
• Napkins, table, made in paper mills
• Napkins, paper, merchant wholesalers
• Newsprint paper, manufacturing
• Notebooks (including mechanically bound by wire, or plastics) made from purchased paper
• Office supplies, die-cut paper, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Office paper (e.g., computer printer, photocopy, plain paper) made in paper mills
• Office paper (e.g., computer printer, photocopy, plain paper), cut sheet, made from purchased paper
• Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Pads, desk, made from purchased paper
• Pallets, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper (e.g., aluminum oxide, emery, garnet, silicon carbide), abrasive coated, made from purchased paper
• Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers
• Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing
• Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills
• Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood), coated, laminated or treated, made in paper mills
• Paper (except office supplies, printing paper, stationery, writing paper) merchant wholesalers
• Paper and pulp industries manufacturing machinery merchant wholesalers
• Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing
• Paper and paperboard converting machinery manufacturing
• Paper and paperboard corrugating machinery manufacturing
• Paper and paperboard cutting and folding machinery manufacturing
• Paper and paperboard die-cutting and stamping machinery manufacturing
• Paper bag making machinery manufacturing
• Paper bags merchant wholesalers
• Paper bags, coated, made from purchased paper
• Paper bags, uncoated, made from purchased paper
• Paper clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Paper clips made from purchased wire
• Paper clips, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants
• Paper cups made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper cutters, office-type, manufacturing
• Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from molded pulp
• Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper dresses cut and sew apparel contractors
• Paper dresses, women’s and girls’, cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
• Paper fabric, narrow woven, weaving
• Paper fabrics, broadwoven, weaving
• Paper machine wire cloth made from purchased wire
• Paper making machinery manufacturing
• Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services
• Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills)
• Paper mills, newsprint
• Paper mills, uncoated groundwood
• Paper napkins and tablecloths made from purchased paper
• Paper novelties made from purchased paper
• Paper or pulp mill construction
• Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper products (except office supply), die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper products, die-cut office supply, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper shells (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less) manufacturing
• Paper stock for conversion into paper products (e.g., bag and sack stock, envelope stock, tissue stock, wallpaper stock) manufacturing
• Paper towels made from purchased paper
• Paper towels made in paper mills
• Paper yarn manufacturing
• Paper, asphalt, made in paper mills
• Paper, building, merchant wholesalers
• Paper, carbon, manufacturing
• Paper, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Paper, dealing of commercial (i.e., acting as principal in dealing securities to investors)
• Paper, newsprint and uncoated groundwood, manufacturing
• Paper, office (e.g., carbon, computer, copier, typewriter), merchant wholesalers
• Paper, photographic sensitized, manufacturing
• Paper, scrap, merchant wholesalers
• Paper, stencil, manufacturing
• Paperboard (e.g., can/drum stock, container board, corrugating medium, folding carton stock, linerboard, tube) manufacturing
• Paperboard and paperboard products (except office supplies) merchant wholesalers
• Paperboard box making machinery manufacturing
• Paperboard coating, laminating, or treating in paperboard mills
• Paperboard making machinery manufacturing
• Paperboard mills
• Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills
• Paperboard, pasted, lined, laminated, or surface coated, made from purchased paperboard
• Paperhanging and removal contractors
• Paperhanging or removal contractors
• Partitions, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Party goods (e.g., paper supplies, decorations, novelties) stores
• Personal sanitary paper products merchant wholesalers
• Photographic film, cloth, paper, and plate, sensitized, manufacturing
• Photosensitized paper manufacturing
• Pocket folders made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Pressure sensitive paper and tape (except medical) made from purchased materials
• Printing postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping) to printed products (e.g., books, cards, paper)
• Printing paper (except bulk) merchant wholesalers
• Printing paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers
• Printing, engraving, on paper products
• Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing
• Pulp and paperboard combined manufacturing
• Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper
• Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper
• Pulp mills and groundwood paper, uncoated and untreated, manufacturing
• Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard
• Pulp mills producing newsprint paper
• Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint)
• Pulp mills producing paperboard
• Pulp, paper, and paperboard molding machinery manufacturing
• Punches (except paper), nonpowered handtool, manufacturing
• Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Report covers made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Rolls and roll coverings, rubber (e.g., industrial, papermill, painters’, steelmill) manufacturing
• Sacks, multiwall, made from purchased uncoated paper
• Sacks, paper, merchant wholesalers
• Sanitary food container, folding, made from purchased paperboard
• Sanitary food containers (e.g., disposable plastics, paper, paperboard) merchant wholesalers
• Sanitary food containers (except folding) made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Sanitary napkins and tampons made from purchased paper or textile fiber
• Sanitary napkins and tampons made in paper mills
• Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock
• Sanitary products made in paper mills
• Sanitary paper products (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) made in paper mills
• Sanitary paper products merchant wholesalers
• Sanitary paper stock manufacturing
• Saturated felts made from purchased paper
• Saturated felts made in paper mills
• Seed packets made from purchased paper
• Sensitized cloth or paper (e.g., blueprint, photographic) manufacturing
• Setup (i.e., not shipped flat) boxes made from purchased paperboard
• Sheathing paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) made in paper mills
• Shipping containers (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers
• Shipping containers made from purchased paperboard
• Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard
• Shipping supplies, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Shoe boxes, folding, made from purchased paperboard
• Shoe boxes, setup, made from purchased paperboard
• Shopping bags, paper and plastics, merchant wholesalers
• Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing
• Stationery made from purchased paper
• Stencil paper manufacturing
• Surface coating purchased paperboard
• Tablecloths (except paper) made from purchased materials
• Tablecloths, paper, made from purchased paper
• Tablets (e.g., memo, note, writing) made from purchased paper
• Tablets (e.g., memo, note, writing) made in paper mills
• Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper
• Tapes, pressure sensitive (e.g., cellophane, masking), gummed, made from purchased paper or other materials
• Tar paper made from purchased asphaltic materials and paper
• Tar paper, building and roofing, made from purchased paper
• Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills
• Technical manual and paperback book publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing)
• Technical manual and paperback book publishers and printing combined
• Technical manual paper (books) binding without printing
• Technical manuals and papers (books) printing and binding without publishing
• Technical manuals and papers (books) printing without publishing
• Tissue paper stock manufacturing
• Tissue paper, toilet and facial, merchant wholesalers
• Toilet paper made from purchased paper
• Toilet paper made in paper mills
• Towels, paper, made from purchased paper
• Towels, paper, made in paper mills
• Typewriter paper merchant wholesalers
• Uncoated groundwood paper mills
• Vulcanized fiber products made from purchased paperboard
• Wallpaper made from purchased papers or other materials
• Wastebaskets, fiber made from purchased paperboard
• Waxed paper for nonpackaging applications made from purchased paper
• Waxed paper for packaging applications made from purchased paper
• Waxed paper merchant wholesalers
• Wrapping paper (except giftwrap) merchant wholesalers
• Writing paper (except bulk) merchant wholesalers
• Writing paper and envelopes, boxed sets, made from purchased paper
• Writing paper made in paper mills
• Writing paper, cut sheet, made from purchased paper

Printing

Retailing

Technology

Sector Specialization:

                           

• Application and Infrastructure Software
• Communications Equipment
• Communications Services
• Data and Informatics
• E-commerce
• Electronics Manufacturing Services
• Enterprise Computing & Hardware
• Financial Technology
• HR Technology
• Internet and Digital Media
• Internet/New media
• IT and Tech-Enabled Services
• IT services
• Networking & Communications Technology
• On-Demand (SaaS) & Enterprise Software
• RFID & Supply Chain Technology
• Semiconductors
• Semiconductors
• Software
• Storage
• Tech-Enabled Services
• Technology and Telecom Hardware
• Technology hardware
• Telecom and Data Center Solutions
• Wireless Technology

Transportation

Sector Specialization:

                           

• Aviation
• Rail
• Trucking
• Shipping
• Barge
• Freight Forwarding
• Intermodal
• Port Logistics
• Warehousing

Waste to Energy