WordNet
n. marketing research that yields information about the marketplace
Wikipedia
A market analysis studies the attractiveness and the dynamics of a special market within a special industry. It is part of the industry analysis and thus in turn of the global environmental analysis. Through all of these analyses, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of a company can be identified. Finally, with the help of a SWOT analysis, adequate business strategies of a company will be defined. The market analysis is also known as a documented investigation of a market that is used to inform a firm's planning activities, particularly around decisions of inventory, purchase, work force expansion/contraction, facility expansion, purchases of capital equipment, promotional activities, and many other aspects of a company.
Usage examples of "market analysis".
Its some new tool theyve worked out for market analysis, so it should be fairly reliable.
The people-reading aspects taught there would have been a lot more useful here than all those stock market analysis labs he'd dripped the midnight sweat over.
He's in his study, preparing a market analysis that he looks forward to laying aside.
Gianni imagined that in his world of databases and market analysis, there was little room for voices from the dead.