key people justin ruthven president ceo phil ruthven founder chairman products business information industry and market research . website www.ibisworld.com ibisworld is an australian research company . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 references 4 external links history edit ibisworld was formed in 1971 as ibis research services . ibisworld is a research organization specializing in long range forecasting of industries and the business environment at large with an emphasis on providing information for strategic planning and research purposes . phil ruthven founded ibisworld . he is one of australia s leading analysts on business social and economic matters . 1 since 1996 ibisworld has produced searchable industry databases for use on a personal computer progressing later to a website based delivery model . in 2003 ibisworld began producing reports on u.s. industries and expanded their operation into six u.s. cities . the u.s. branch of the company generated approximately 40 % of 2007 revenue for the ibisworld group . ibisworld s fiscal 2013 global revenue exceeded 35 million . in july 2007 ibisworld began a joint venture with chinese research company a.c.m.r to produce reports on china s main industries . 2 operations edit the company s website provides access to information on american canadian australian british and chinese industries . the company also produced global industry reports covering world industry analysis . ibisworld also publishes industry risk rating reports industry profiles information on publicly traded us companies as well as economic & demographic profiles . current ibisworld partners include valuation resources the risk management association superfactory and american small business development centers . with its us headquarters located in los angeles ibisworld has offices in new york london melbourne and sydney . references edit george negus tonight phil ruthven interview 16 10 2003 australian broadcasting corporation australia s business soothsayer forbes 23 april 2007 external links edit ibisworld us website ibisworld uk website ibisworld australian website ibisworld china website fox business 2008 hot job list data master top performing brands retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ibisworld & oldid 743865260 categories marketing research companies of the united statesprivately held companies based in californiacompanies based in los angelesresearch and analysis firmsresearch and analysis firms of the united stateshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 18 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view