SIC for "small business"
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7389 - Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and auctioneering services, on a commission or fee basis. …Examples: Agents and brokers for authors and nonperforming artist, Apparel pressing service for the trade, Appraisers, except -
2761 - Manifold Business Forms
Establishments primarily engaged in designing and printing, by any process, special forms for use in the operation of a business, in single and multiple sets, including carbonized or interleaved with carbon or otherwise processed for multiple reproduction. …Examples: Autographic register forms, printed, Business forms, manifold, Computer forms, manifold or continuous (excludes paper -
8221 - Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Colleges, universities, and professional schools furnishing academic courses and granting academic degrees. The requirement for admission is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. …Examples: Colleges except junior, Professional schools: eg dental engineering law medical, Seminaries theological, Service -
5961 - Catalog and Mail-Order Houses
Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of products by television, catalog, and mail-order. These establishments do not ordinarily maintain stock for sale on the premises. …Examples: Book clubs, not publishing, Books, mail-order - retail, Catalog (order taking) offices of mail-order houses - retail, -
6153 - Short-Term Business Credit Institutions, except Agricultural
Establishments primarily engaged in extending credit to business enterprises for relatively short periods. …Examples: Business credit institutions, short-term Credit card service, -
7363 - Help Supply Services
Establishments primarily engaged in supplying temporary or continuing help on a contract or fee basis. The help supplied is always on the payroll of the supplying establishments, but is under the direct or general supervision of the business to whom the help is furnished. Establishments which provide both management and staff to operate a business are classified according to the type of activity …Examples: Employee leasing service, Fashion show model supply service, Help supply service, Labor pools, Manpower pools, Modeling -
6159 - Miscellaneous Business Credit Institutions
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing intermediate or long-term general and industrial credit, including the finance leasing of automobiles, trucks, and machinery and equipment. Included in this industry are private establishments primarily engaged in extending agricultural credit. …Examples: Agricultural loan companies, Automobile finance leasing, Credit institutions, agricultural, Farm mortgage companies, -
0971 - Hunting, Trapping, Game Propagation
Establishments primarily engaged in commercial hunting and trapping, or in the operation of game preserves. …Examples: Animal trapping, commercial, Game management, Game preserves, Game propagation, Game retreat, operation of, Hunting -
5112 - Stationery and Office Supplies
Establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of stationery and office supplies, including computer and photocopy supplies, envelopes, typewriter paper, file cards and folders, pens, pencils, social stationery, and greeting cards. …Examples: Albums (photo) and scrapbooks - wholesale, Blankbooks - wholesale, Business forms - wholesale, Carbon paper - -
6163 - Loan Brokers
Establishments primarily engaged in arranging loans for others. These establishments operate mostly on a commission or fee basis and do not ordinarily have any continuing relationship with either borrower or lender. …Examples: Agents, farm or business loan, Brokers, farm or business loan
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7372 - Prepackaged Software
Establishments primarily engaged in the design, development, and production of prepackaged computer software. Important products of this industry include operating, utility, and applications programs. Establishments of this industry may also provide services such as preparation of software documentation for the user-installation of software for the user; and training the user in the use of the …Examples: Applications software, computer prepackaged, Computer software publishers, prepackaged, Games, computer software: -
1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in performing oil and gas field services, not elsewhere classified, for others on a contract or fee basis. Services included are excavating slush pits and cellars; gradings and building of foundations at well locations; well surveying; running, cutting, and pulling casings tubes, and rods; cementing wells; shooting wells; perforating well casings; acidizing and …Examples: Acidizing wells on a contract basis, Bailing wells on a contract basis, Building oil and gas well foundations on a -
1721 - Painting and Paper Hanging
Special trade contractors primarily engaged in painting and paper hanging. …Examples: Bridge painting - contractors, Electrostatic painting on site (including of lockers and fixtures)-, House painting - -
2741 - Miscellaneous Publishing
Establishments primarily engaged in miscellaneous publishing activities, not elsewhere classified, whether or not engaged in printing. …Examples: Atlases: publishing and printing, or publishing only, Business service newsletters: publishing and printing, or -
2752 - Commercial Printing, Lithographic
Establishments primarily engaged in printing by the lithographic process. The greater part of the work in this industry is performed on a job or custom basis; but in some cases lithographed calendars, maps, posters, decalcomanias, or other products are made for sale. Offset printing, photo-offset printing, and photolithographing are also included in this industry. …Examples: Advertising posters, lithographed, Atlases, lithographed, Billheads, lithographed, Bread wrappers, lithographed, -
2754 - Commercial Printing, Gravure
Establishments primarily engaged in gravure printing. …Examples: Bread wrappers: gravure printing, Business forms, except manifold: gravure printing, Calendars, gravure printing not -
2759 - Commercial Printing, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in commercial or job printing, not elsewhere classified. This industry includes general printing shops, not elsewhere classified, as well as shops specializing in printing newspapers and periodicals for others. …Examples: Announcements, engraved, Bags, plastics: printed only, except lithographed or gravure (bags not, Banknotes, engraved, -
3444 - Sheet Metal Work
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sheet metal work for buildings, and manufacturing stovepipes, light tanks, and other products of sheet metal. …Examples: Air cowls, scoops, or airports (ship ventilators), sheet metal, Awnings, sheet metal, Bins, prefabricated: sheet metal, -
3469 - Metal Stampings, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal stampings and spun products, not elsewhere classified, including porcelain enameled products. Products of this industry include household appliance housings and parts; cooking and kitchen utensils; and other nonautomotive job stampings. …Examples: Appliance parts, porcelain enameled, Ashcans, stamped and pressed metal, Ashtrays, stamped metal, Automobile license -
3955 - Carbon Paper and Inked Ribbons
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing carbon paper; spirit or gelatin process and other stencil paper; and inked or carbon ribbons for business machines. …Examples: Carbon paper, Ribbons, inked: e.g., typewriter, adding machine, cash register, Stencil paper for typewriters, Stencil
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4011 - Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
Establishments primarily engaged in line-haul railroad passenger and freight operations. …Examples: Electric railroads, line-haul operating, Interurban railways, Railroads, line-haul operating -
4013 - Railroad Switching and Terminal Establishments
Establishments primarily engaged in the furnishing of terminal facilities for rail passenger or freight traffic for line-haul service, and in the movement of railroad cars between terminal yards, industrial sidings and other local sites. Terminal companies do not necessarily operate any vehicles themselves, but may operate the stations and terminals. …Examples: Belt line railroads, Logging railroads, Railroad terminals, Stations operated by railway terminal companies -
4512 - Air Transportation, Scheduled
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing air transportation over regular routes and on regular schedules. This industry includes Alaskan carriers operating over regular or irregular routes. …Examples: Air cargo carriers, scheduled, Air passenger carriers, scheduled -
6091 - Non-Deposit Trust Facilities
Trust companies engaged in fiduciary business, but not regularly engaged in deposit banking. Some of these establishments occasionally hold limited amounts of special types of deposits, and their uninvested trust funds are usually classified as deposits. These non-deposit trust facilities may have either National or State charters. …Examples: Non-deposit trust companies -
7335 - Commercial Photography
Establishments primarily engaged in providing commercial photography services for advertising agencies, publishers, and other business and industrial users. …Examples: Aerial photographic service, except mapmaking Commercial, Photographic studios, commercial -
7336 - Commercial Art and Graphic Design
Establishments primarily engaged in providing commercial art or graphic design services for advertising agencies, publishers, and other business and industrial users. …Examples: Artists commercial, Chart and graph design, Commercial art and illustration, Film strip and slide producers, Graphic -
7629 - Electrical and Electronic Repair Shops, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in the repair of electrical and electronic equipment, not elsewhere classified, such as electrical household appliances and electrical and electronic industrial equipment. …Examples: Aircraft electrical equipment repair except radio, Appliance repair, electrical, Business machine repair, electrical, -
7993 - Coin-Operated Amusement Devices
Establishments primarily engaged in operating coin-operated amusement devices, either in their own or in other places of business. Such amusement devices include juke boxes, pinball machines, mechanical games, slot machines, and similar types of amusement equipment. Amusement (including video game) arcades and parlors are also included in this industry. …Examples: Amusement device parlors, coin-operated, Amusement machines, coin-operated: operation of, Arcades, amusement, Gambling -
3482 - Small Arms Ammunition
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition for small arms having a bore of 30 mm. (or 1.18 inch) or less. …Examples: Ammunition and component parts, small arms: 30 mm. (or 1.18 inch), Shells, small arms: 30 mm. (or 1.18 -
8742 - Management Consulting Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing operating counsel and assistance to managements of private, nonprofit, and public organizations. These establishments generally perform a variety of activities, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; information systems planning, evaluation and selection; human resource …Examples: Administrative management consultants, General management consultants, Human resource consultants, Management
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2015 - Poultry Slaughtering and Processing
Establishments primarily engaged in slaughtering, dressing, packing, freezing, and canning poultry, rabbits, and other small game, or in manufacturing products from such meats, for their own account or on a contract basis for the trade. This industry also includes the drying, freezing, and breaking of eggs. …Examples: Chickens, processed: fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked, Chickens: slaughtering and dressing, Ducks, processed: fresh, -
3484 - Small Arms
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing small firearms having a bore 30 mm. (or 1.18 inch) or less, and parts for small firearms. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing certain weapons more than 30 mm. which are carried and employed by the individual, such as grenade launchers and heavy field machine guns. …Examples: Barrels, gun: 30 mm. (or 1.18 inch) or less, Carbines, 30 mm. (or 1.18 inch) or less, Carts, machine gun and machine -
3949 - Sporting and Athletic Goods, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sporting and athletic goods, not elsewhere classified, such as fishing tackle; golf and tennis goods; baseball, football, basketball, and boxing equipment; roller skates and ice skates; gymnasium and playground equipment; billiard and pool tables; and bowling alleys and equipment. …Examples: Ammunition belts, sporting type: of all materials, Archery equipment, Arrows, archery, Athletic and sporting goods: -
3172 - Personal Leather Goods, except Women's Handbags and Purses
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing small articles normally carried on the person or in a handbag, such as billfolds, key cases, and coin purses of leather or other materials, except precious metal. …Examples: Billfolds, regardless of material, Card cases, except precious metal, Cases, jewelry: regardless of material, Checkbook -
6141 - Personal Credit Institutions
Establishments primarily engaged in providing loans to individuals. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in financing retail sales made on the installment plan and financing automobile loans for individuals. …Examples: Automobile loans (may include automobile insurance), Consumer finance companies, Financing of automobiles, furniture, -
8611 - Business Associations
Membership organizations engaged in promoting the business interests of their members. …Examples: Better business bureaus, Business associations, other than civic and social -
8748 - Business Consulting Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business consulting services, not elsewhere classified, on a contract or fee basis. …Examples: Agricultural consulting, City planners, except professional engineering, Economic consulting, Educational consulting, -
8244 - Business and Secretarial Schools
Establishments primarily engaged in offering courses in business machine operation, office procedures, and secretarial and stenographic skills. …Examples: Business colleges and schools, not of college grade -
8732 - Commercial Economic, Sociological, and Educational Research
Establishments primarily engaged in performing commercial business, marketing, opinion, and other economic, sociological, and educational research on a contract or fee basis. …Examples: Business economists, commercial, Business research commercial -
8741 - Management Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing general or specialized management services on a day to day basis and on a contract or fee basis. Establishments in this industry do not provide operating staff. …Examples: Administrative management services, Business management services, Circuit management services for motion picture
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1796 - Installation or Erection of Building Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
Special trade contractors primarily engaged in the installation or erection of building equipment, not elsewhere classified, such as elevators, pneumatic tube systems, and dust collecting equipment. This industry also includes contractors primarily engaged in the installation or dismantling of machinery or other industrial equipment. …Examples: Conveyor system installation - contractors, Dismantling of machinery and other industrial equipment - contractors, -
3299 - Nonmetallic Mineral Products, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in the factory production of goods made of plaster of paris and papier-mache, and in manufacturing sand lime products and other nonmetallic mineral products, not elsewhere classified. …Examples: Architectural sculptures, plaster of paris: factory production only, Art goods: plaster of paris, papier-mache, and -
3483 - Ammunition, Except for Small Arms
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ammunition, not elsewhere classified, or in loading and assembling ammunition more than 30 mm. (or more than 1.18 inch), including component parts. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing bombs, mines, torpedoes, grenades, depth charges, chemical warfare projectiles, and their component parts. …Examples: Ammunition and component parts more than 30 mm. (or more than, Ammunition loading and assembling plants, Arming and -
3732 - Boat Building and Repairing
Establishments primarily engaged in building and repairing boats. …Examples: Boat kits, not a model, Boats, fiberglass: building and repairing, Boats, rigid: plastics, Boats: motorboats, -
3911 - Jewelry, Precious Metal
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing jewelry and other articles worn on or carried about the person, made of precious metals (including base metals clad or rolled with precious metals), with or without stones. Products of this industry include cigarette cases and lighters, vanity cases and compacts; trimmings for umbrellas and canes; and jewel settings and mountings. …Examples: Cases: cigar, cigarette, and vanity-precious metal, Cigar lighters, precious metal or based metal clad with precious -
3961 - Costume Jewelry and Costume Novelties, except Precious Metal
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing costume jewelry, costume novelties, and ornaments made of all materials, except precious metal, precious or semiprecious stones, and rolled goldplate and gold- filled materials. …Examples: Compacts, except precious metal and solid leather, Costume jewelry, except precious metal and precious or -
5947 - Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Shops
Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of combined lines of gifts and novelty merchandise, souvenirs, greeting cards, holiday decorations, and miscellaneous small art goods. …Examples: Balloon shops - retail, Curio shops - retail, Gift shops - retail, Greeting card shops - retail, Novelty shops - -
8249 - Vocational Schools, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in offering specialized vocational courses, not elsewhere classified. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in furnishing educational courses by mail. Offices maintained by such schools for the sale of correspondence courses are included. …Examples: Aviation schools, excluding flying instruction, Banking schools (training in banking), Commercial art schools, -
8641 - Civic, Social, and Fraternal Associations
Membership organizations engaged in civic, social, or fraternal activities. …Examples: Alumni associations and club, Bars and restaurants owned and operated for members of, Booster clubs, Business persons -
8721 - Accounting, Auditing, and Bookkeeping Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing accounting, bookkeeping, and related auditing services. These establishments may use data processing and tabulating techniques as part of providing their services. …Examples: Accounting service, Auditing service, accounts, Bookkeeping and billing service, Certified public accountants (CPAs),
