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Top: Regional: Europe: United_Kingdom: England: South_Yorkshire: Sheffield: Business_and_Economy

Includes sites covering the business and economic activities of the region; including listings of companies and industries.

Advertising and Marketing

Sites geared specifically towards Internet marketing agencies should be submitted to the Computers and Internet subcategory.
This category is for sites about local businesses and organisations related to advertising and promotion. Includes sites for local businesses offering services that advertise, promote and encourage sales for other businesses.

Beauty and Cosmetic Services

This category is for the listing of personal services such as salons, spas, tanning facilities, manicurists, and other body decoration services such as tattooing and piercing. Sites for shops offering health products are listed within Business and Economy/Shopping/Health Products.

Business Services

This category includes sites for businesses that offer services primarily to consumers.

Computers and Internet

Find links to local businesses and organisations related to computers and the Internet. This includes sites for and about businesses that sell/rent computer hardware and software, computer training, web design, Internet access, and support services.

Construction and Maintenance

Includes resources on industries and companies primarily engaged in the design and construction of buildings and other structures, heavy construction and civil engineering (e.g. such as roads, power plants, and pipelines), additions, alterations, reconstruction, installation, and maintenance and repairs. Demolition or wrecking of buildings and other structures, clearing of building sites, and sale of materials from demolished structures are also included.

Directories

Find business related portals and directories, including online yellow pages, that contain lists of business resources and/or company websites related to the region.

Employment

Provides sites related to local employment conditions, including recruitment agencies, human resources, and sites offering help in finding jobs.

Entertainment and Media

The entertainment industry includes the film, television, radio, music, theatre, and theme park industries. In addition, it includes the entertainment-related aspects of several other industries such as sports, fashion, and gaming.

This category is for the listing of sites pertaining to the entertainment industry including but not limited to audio and video production, recording studios, and talent agencies.

Event Planning

For the listing of sites related to wedding, corporate, party, and other event planning services, including caterers, guides, convention and exhibition services.

Financial Services

This category includes sites for businesses offering services related to banking, credit, loans, investment and financial planning. Such sites might include banks, credit unions, lending institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms and providers of related financial services.

Funeral Services

This category lists sites related to the preparation of the dead for burial or interment, and funeral services. Includes funeral homes, mortuaries, coffin makers, monument builders, and embalmers.

Home and Garden

This category is for regional businesses and economic activity related to products and services intended for the home and garden. Examples of products include sellers of plants, swimming pools, and windows. Examples of services include suppliers of water softeners, interior design, lawn maintenance, pest control, and house-sitting.

Industrial

This category will list companies that produce products from raw materials and the companies that support them, such as distributors, wholesalers, industrial supply companies and manufacturing representatives. The general types of companies that will be listed here are food processing, aviation, conveyors, electronic, guns, instrumentation, mining, drilling, chemicals and textiles; however, the list is not limited to these industries.

Companies in industries that have a separate sub-category in Business and Economy will not be listed here. Examples of companies not listed here are agriculture, automotive, computers, home and garden, oil and gas, printing, publishing, and telecommunications.

Legal Services

This category includes sites related to the legal profession, including solicitors, lawyers, barristers, law firms and expert witnesses. Sites related to statutory judicial bodies are listed in Government/Law.

Motoring

For the listing of car, truck, and motorcycle dealerships, service centres, parts dealers, and body shops.

Printing

Sites for businesses involved in the production of printed items such as newspapers, books, periodicals, posters, business forms and greeting cards. This includes both high street print shops and industrial scale printers, plus companies providing support services such as binding, plate making, and data imaging. Printing on clothing is included here because the production process is printing, not clothing manufacturing.

Please note, promotional items are listed under Business_and_Economy/Advertising_and_Marketing/ and magazines and newspapers under News and Media.

Property

This category includes sites for businesses offering services related to the sale and procurement of land and buildings.

Restaurants and Bars

This category includes sites for establishments offering food and drink consumed on the premises, although such establishments may also offer food and drink to 'take away'.

Shipping, Storage, and Logistics

The focus of this category is the business of moving goods. This includes the storage, distribution and transport of bulk commodities, other materials of commerce, packages, papers, and letters, via land, air and water for industrial, commercial and domestic purposes.

Some examples of websites that could be placed in this category are sites about the shipping industry in a place or region; railroad companies, barge operators, and other freight carriers; moving and warehousing companies, including residential removals and storage; trucking companies; companies offering loading and unloading or other specialized services for the transportation sector; companies providing freight forwarding, logistics, e-commerce and supply chain management services; commercial courier and messenger services; and companies offering rental of equipment such as forklifts or trucks.

Shopping

Retail shops selling goods to walk-in customers, and retailers who may take orders by phone or online but deliver goods only to the local area. This category can include shopping centres, convenience stores, clothing, food, flowers and gifts, sporting goods, books and music.

Online shops, and shops where the focus is selling and delivering goods nationally and/or internationally will be listed at country level and may also be eligible for listing in the Shopping/ directory.

The following retailers should submit to the indicated categories for this location. If the categories do not exist, submit to the parent category. Artists and Galleries - Arts_and_Entertainment/Artists_and_Galleries/ Car dealers - Business and Economy/Motoring Garden centres and nurseries - Business_and_Economy/Home_and_Garden/Nurseries/ Drug stores, pharmacies, opticians, eyewear retailers, and equipment for assisted living are listed in the Health categories for this location.

Telecommunications

This category is for sites focused on the business of operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text and video between network termination points, and telecommunications reselling.

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