Auroran Business Categories

The following are the Auroran Business Categories, abbreviated ABC, which provide a standardized way to group and compare business and enterprises across Auroraa. The categories are:

• Accomodation and Food Service—hotels, cafeterias, restaurants, campgrounds, lodges, hostels, and travel services
• Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation—galleries, cinemas, theaters, arenas, stadia, performing arts, spectator sports, museums, historical sites, amusement parks, zoos, botanical gardens, and nature parks, casinos, golf courses, skiing lodges, marinas
• Construction—buildings and structures, highways and roadways, pipelines and transmission lines, skilled trades (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, roofing, masonry, carpentry), wrecking and demolition
• Educational Services—educational schools, trade and technical schools, colleges, academies, and universities
• Finance and Insurance—banks, exchanges, and insurers
• Foodstuffs—Agriculture, fishing, and hunting, including farms, orchards, plantations, ranches, fisheries, hatcheries, preserves, slaughtering, milling, processing, baking, and dairies
• Healthcare & Social Services—medical facilities, hospitals, clinics, medical and clinical laboratories, sanitoria, spas, orphanages, social assistance agencies, and afterlife services. Can also include pharmaceuticals and medical research & development.
• Manufacturing
  • Apparel and Textiles—fiber mills, fabric mills, clothing, leather tanneries, footwear
  • Armament—small arms, armored vehicles, combat aircrft, warships, and other military weapons systems and hardware
  • Chemical Products—chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, paints, soaps, resins, refineries, industrial gasses, dies, plastics and rubbers, and petrochemicals
  • Electrical Equipment and Appliances—electrical transmission and distribution equipment, consumer and household appliances, lighting, wiring, and storage devices, radios, televisions, telephones, and navigational and measuring equipment
  • Machinery—heavy machinery, industrial machinery, agricultural machinery, construction and mining machinery, commercial machinery, air handling machinery, metalworking machinery, engines, pumps, and turbines, and material handling equipment
  • Metals—iron and steel mills, aluminum plants, ferroalloy production, smelting and refining, rolling, foundries, extruders, forges, casters and fabricators, machine shops
  • Miscellaneous products—medical and dental equipment, toys, jewelry, signs, sporting and athletic goods, glass, cement, clay, musical instruments
  • Transportation products—automobiles, light and heavy duty trucks, busses, automotive components, ships, shipyards, railway rolling stock and motive power, aircraft, aircraft components
  • Wood and Paper Products—sawmills, lumberyards, wood products, paper mills, furniture
• Mining and Minerals—oil and gas extraction, coal mining, ore mining, mineral mining and extraction
• Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—accounting, administrative, advertising, architecture, employment, engineering, legal, management, protective (security), research and development, repair and maintenance, personal services, waste management and remediation services
• Publishing and Broadcasting—publishing houses (books, newspapers, and magazines), broadcasting (radio and television), film and video, sound recordings, and libraries
• Real estate
• Retail—stores, markets, consumer services
• Transportation—air, boat, pipeline, postal, rail, ship, taxi, and truck transport services and facilities
• Utilities—electric power generation and distribution, telecommunications, and water and sewer systems
• Wholesale—warehousing, storage, dealers, and distribution