For more than thirty years the Dutch Rabobank offers access to brief but terse analysis of Dutch trade and industry. Rabobank Group is comprised of independent local Rabobanks plus Rabobank Nederland, their central organization, and its (internationally based) subsidiaries. The 161 independent local Rabobanks, which have a staff base of nearly 29,000 people, form the densest [...]

Virtually every sector and line of business within the economy of the Netherlands, is organized. One particular “Dutch” regulatory structure is the so-called commodity or industrial board. These  boards are also known as “publiekrechtelijke beroepsorganisaties” (the Dutch abbreviation is PBO), and is similar to a public law corporation organization. In the Netherlands there are 17 commodity [...]

The (Dutch only) retail trade yearbook (published by HBD, Hoofdbedrijfschap Detailhandel) is an important printed information source. It provides detailed descriptions about some 40 retail sectors. The directory contains information  about turnover, price level, number of companies and outlets and basic characteristics for the retail trade as a whole. For each sector the following topics [...]

This website contains PDF-versions of more than 200 reports on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, written in English. Including General Reports (also available in print) and Research Reports (electronic working papers). It also gives you online entry to a number of datasets. http://www.entrepreneurship-sme.eu/

For more than a century, this annual directory offers information about private and public organizations, institutions and associations like the agricultural sector, the public authorities (ministerial departments), the chambers of commerce, corporate industrial organizations, legal practices (notary offices, lawyer’s offices, the judiciary), universities and polytechnics, health services, arts and culture (libraries and museums). Pyttersen’s contains [...]