So I've decided to make a list of the fragmented industries I know of off of the top of my head. These are industries with potential for entrepreneurs to build companies in:
1) Automotive parts retailing
2) Tire dealer retailing
3) Plumbing products distribution
4) Food service equipment manufacture
5) Food service distribution (this industry I'm not quite sure of; sources say it is "concentrated," but I've also read that it's fragmented as well; it's also very large ($125 billion)
6) Sporting goods retail
7) Used auto parts
8) Commercial printing
9) Packaging
10) Interconnect technologies industry
11) Specialized contracting services (Quanta Services is an example)
12) Engineering services
13) Industrial cleaning products
14) Trucking
15) Non-food pet products
16) Specialty automotive aftermarket equipment
17) Jewelry retail
18) Business services
19) Real-estate
20) Hotel and lodging
21) Pool supply distribution industry
22) Niche consumer products (look to Jarden Corporation and Spectrum Brands)
23) Fluid control equipment (which consists of pumps, valves, and seals, each of which is a fragmented industry unto itself)
24) Sensors
25) Embedded computing/industrial computers
26) Printed circuit boards
27) Pool products (as in the hardware, such as pumps, filters, etc...for swimming pools)
28) Filters
29) Thermal management technologies
30) Life sciences tools and equipment
31) Beer distribution
32) Steel service center distribution
33) HVAC/R (Heating-Ventilation-Air Conditioning/Refrigeration) distribution
34) Clinical diagnostics testing industry
35) Used auto parts
What exactly do you mean by "fragmented"? A market without companies who hold large market share in them? Real-estate, hotel, and trucking seem like established, stable industries compared to the rest of the list.
ReplyDeleteA fragmented industry is an industry in which no major company has a dominant market share. It can certainly have large companies in it, and also be established, but no company, or group of companies, have dominant market share.
ReplyDeleteHere is some info on the trucking and hotel industries:
http://www.hoovers.com/industry/trucking/1622-1.html
http://www.hoovers.com/industry/lodging/1436-1.html
"Real estate" I suppose encompasses a lot of sub-industries, from realtors, to property management, various developers, from office property developers to apartment developers, to suburb and planned community developers, to condo developers, to shopping mall developers...from what I have been able to find, no one company dominates the industry or the sub-industries.