Table of Contents Overview of Boston’s Manufacturing Industry...................................................................1 Boston’s Manufacturing Companies: Alphabetical List............................................... A - 1 Boston’s Manufacturing Companies: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code List...................................................................SIC - 1 Boston’s Manufacturing Companies: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code List...........................................................NAICS - 1 Boston’s Manufacturing Companies: Neighborhood List............................................N - 1 Appendix: Boston Manufacturing Companies by Neighborhood and Major Group SIC Codes............................................................ App. - 1 Overview of Boston’s Manufacturing Industry The manufacturing industry in Boston, as in most parts of the country, has experienced a significant decline in the last three decades. Once Boston’s main engine of economic growth, the manufacturing industry has been replaced by other innovative and service-based industries. This decline has been translated into a substantial decrease in the number of jobs available in the Boston manufacturing sector. Figure 1 shows the dramatic changes in industrial and manufacturing employment during the last three decades in the City of Boston. Source: U.S. Bureau Of Economic Analysis Figure 1. Industrial Employment in Boston Manufacturing All Industrial 120,000 100,000 80,000 J o 60,000 b s 40,000 20,000 1969 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 In 1969, Boston’s manufacturing industry employed 68,993 people. The years to follow were characterized by a fairly steady decrease in the number of manufacturing jobs in Boston. By 1979, the number of people employed in Boston’s manufacturing companies was down to 54,342. Jobs in the city’s manufacturing sector continued to be lost in the 1980’s, dropping to 33,442 jobs by 1989. In the year 2000, manufacturing -1- establishments in Boston employed 27,993 people1. That is, 41,000 manufacturing jobs were lost from 1969 to 2000, a 59.4% decrease in three decades and a critical change, given the importance that the manufacturing industry has had historically in providing jobs for the less formally trained section of Boston’s labor market. The list of Boston’s 1,147 manufacturing companies in this report was compiled from the 2002 Massachusetts Manufacturing Directory produced by Tower Publishing.2 The manufacturing industry covers a broad spectrum of companies which are described by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s 1997 manual as “establishments engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”3 These companies are grouped by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code and/or by the new NAICS (North American Industry Classification System,) which are derived from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Manual (1987 and 1997, respectively.) The manufacturing companies have been arranged into four different lists. The first is an alphabetical listing of Boston’s manufacturing companies, including the company’s name, address, zip code, telephone number, contact person, SIC code, NAICS code, and a brief description of the company’s product. The second list of Boston’s manufacturing companies is arranged by SIC code, which classifies companies in major 1 U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis 2 Tower Publishing, 2002 Massachusetts Manufacturing Directory. Standish, ME. 3 Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget. Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1987. (National Technical Information Service. Springfield, Virginia) -2- groups according to their manufactured products. Within these major groups, there are also subgroups. For example, in major group 20 (Food and Kindred Products), the companies with the SIC code 2011 process various types of meat, while companies with SIC code 2024 produce ice cream products. A summary of the SIC major groups is shown in Table 1. The SIC code summary shows that major group 27 (Printing, Publishing, and Allied Companies) is the most dominant group of manufacturing companies in the city, accounting for 38.4%, or over one third of the city’s manufacturing. Major group 39 (Miscellaneous Manufacturing Companies - made up of a variety of smaller product lines such as jewelry, musical instruments, toys, sporting goods, and signs) is the second largest manufacturing group accounting for 8.7% of the city’s manufacturing. At 8.2%, major group 20 (Food and Kindred Products) is the city’s third largest manufacturing group. Other manufacturing groups that have a notable number of companies in the city are major group 23 (Apparel and Other Similar Products Made from Fabrics etc.) with 6.7% of the city’s manufacturing companies, 34 (Fabricated Metal Products) with 5.8%, and 35 (Machinery) with 5.6% of the city’s manufacturing companies. Together these categories account for 73.4% of all of the manufacturing companies in the city. Figure 2 shows the distribution of all the manufacturing establishments in the City of Boston by major SIC-code groups. -3- Table 1 Boston Manufacturing Establishments: SIC Codes SIC Code and Industry Number Percent Of Total 27- Printing 440 38.4% 39- Miscellaneous 100 8.7% 20- Food 94 8.2% 23- Apparel 77 6.7% 34- Fabricated Metal 66 5.8% 35- Machinery 64 5.6% 36- Electronic Equipment 56 4.9% 28- Chemicals 47 4.1% 24- Lumber 43 3.8% 38- Measuring Instruments 36 3.1% 32- Stone/Glass 26 2.3% 26- Paper 18 1.6% 22- Textile Mill 18 1.6% 25- Furniture 15 1.3% 30- Rubber/Plastics 13 1.1% 37- Transportation Equipment 13 1.1% 31- Leather 10 0.9% 33- Primary Metal 9 0.8% 21- Tobacco 1 0.1% 29- Petroleum and Coal Products 1 0.1% Totals 1,147 100.0% Figure 2. Boston's Manufacturing Establishments By Major SIC Groups 440 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 94 # Of Companies 77 100 66 64 56 47 43 36 26 18 18 15 13 13 10 9 50 1 1 0 27- 39- 20- 23- 34- 35- 36- 24- 32- 26- 22- 28- 38- 25- 30- 37- 31- 33- 21- 29- Major SIC Groups With the introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, the need for a common classification system for Mexico, the United States, and Canada, became evident. This event, along with the rapid emergence of new industries - among other factors - resulted in the creation of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) in 1997. The third section of this report lists the 1,147 Boston manufacturing establishments by NAICS code. NAICS codes in this list were derived from the 1997 North American Industrial Classification System Manual, which lists the correspondence between SIC and NAICS Codes. Table 2 presents the distribution of Boston manufacturing companies for these different NAICS subsectors. The NAICS listing is subdivided into three-digit subsectors, which best resemble the major SIC groups used in the previous section. As a result, similar categories of manufacturers top the lists in both Tables 1 and Table 2. NAICS Subsector 511 (Publishing) accounts for 23.5% of the entire industry, and subsector 323 -4- Table 2 Boston Manufacturing Establishments: NAICS Codes NAICS Code and Industry Number Percent Of Total 511- Publishing 270 23.5% 323- Printing 168 14.7% 339- Miscellaneous 118 10.3% 311- Food 84 7.3% 332- Fabricated Metal 73 6.4% 334- Computer/Electronics 62 5.4% 315- Apparel 52 4.5% 325- Chemical 51 4.5% 333- Machinery 43 3.8% 321- Wood Product 29 2.5% 314- Textile Product Mills 27 2.4% 335- Electrical Equipment 27 2.4% 327- Nonmetallic Mineral 25 2.2% 337- Furniture 22 1.9% 322- Paper 17 1.5% 313- Textile Mills 15 1.3% 336- Transportation Equipment 15 1.3% 326- Plastic/Rubber 13 1.1% 312- Beverage and Tobacco 11 1.0% 316- Leather and Allied Product 11 1.0% 331- Primary Metal 8 0.7% 512- Motion Picture/Sound Recording 4 0.4% 212- Mining (except Oil and Gas) 1 0.1% 324- Petroleum/Coal Products 1 0.1% Totals 1,147 100.0% (Printing and Related Support Activities) accounts for 14.7% of all manufacturing companies in Boston. Together these two subsectors amount to 38.2% and correspond to the SIC classification of printing (27), which accounted for 38.4% of all the manufacturers shown in Table 1. Other large subsectors are 339 (Miscellaneous Manufacturing) with 10.3%, 311 (Food Manufacturing) with 7.3%, 332 (Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing) with 6.4%, and 334 (Computer/Electronics) with 5.4% of all manufacturing establishments in the City of Boston. These six subsectors, together, account for almost 70% of the manufacturing industry in Boston. Figure 3 shows the distribution of all the manufacturing establishments in the City of Boston by NAICS subgroups. Figure 3. Boston's Manufacturing Establishments By NAICS Subsectors 300 270 250 200 168 150 # Of Companies 118 100 84 73 62 52 51 43 50 29 27 27 25 22 17 15 15 13 11 11 8 4 1 1 0 212 311 312 313 315 316 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 339 314 511 512 NAICS Subsectors -5- Table 3 Boston Manufacturing Establishments: Neighborhoods Neighborhood* Number Percent Of Total Central Boston (Includes the North End, 286 24.9% West End and Beacon Hill) South Boston 185 16.1% Back Bay 100 8.7% Fenway/Kenmore 75 6.5% Allston/Brighton 75 6.5% Dorchester 68 5.9% South End 62 5.4% Jamaica Plain 54 4.7% East Boston 48 4.2% Roxbury 47 4.1% Charlestown 46 4.0% Hyde Park 44 3.8% West Roxbury 30 2.6% Roslindale 20 1.7% Mattapan 7 0.6% Totals 1,147 100.0% *All Neighborhoods are defined by postal zip codes The fourth list is arranged by neighborhood. Table 3 shows the neighborhoods that contain the highest concentration of manufacturing companies.