SIC 7389 Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
SIC 7389
This group covers establishments primarily engaged in business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and miscellaneous auctioneering services, on a flat fee or commission basis.
512240
Sound Recording Studios
512290
Other Sound Recording Industries
541199
Other Legal Services
812990
All Other Personal Services
541370
Surveying and Mapping (Except Geophysical) Services
541410
Interior Design Services
541420
Industrial Design Services
541340
Drafting Services
541490
Other Specialized Design Services
541890
Other Services Related to Advertising
541930
Translation and Interpretation Services
541350
Building Inspection Services
541990
All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
711410
Agents and Managers for Artists, Entertainers and Other Public Figures
561421
Telephone Answering Services
561422
Telemarketing Bureaus
561439
Private Mail Centers
561431
Other Business Service Centers
561491
Repossession Services
561910
Packaging and Labeling Services
561790
Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings
561599
All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services
561920
Convention and Trade Show Organizers
561591
Convention and Visitors Bureaus
522320
Financial Transactions, Processing, Reserve and Clearing House Activities
561499
All Other Business Support Services
561990
All Other Support Services
The miscellaneous business services industry encompasses a broad range of specialties, ranging from baby shoe bronzing services and yacht brokers to window trimmers and playwrights. Establishments classified in this industry are generally engaged in providing services that do not generate a sufficient amount of national revenue for the U.S. government to track alone. In 2006, some of the largest categories were interior design services, personal service personnel such as brokers and agents, financial services, and design services.
In 2006, 458,000 establishments, earning $224 billion in revenue, operated in this fragmented industry, up from the roughly 212,000 firms that were engaged in this industry in the mid-1990s. Government statistics indicated that about two-thirds of the companies classified in this industry are corporations, with the remainder being either sole proprietorships or partnerships. The industry generated $32 million in sales in...
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