NAICS 334610Canadian industry · 6-digitinternational market

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing magnetic and optical media, and the mass reproduction of recordings on such media. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 29
Under 10 employeesA: 83%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–42069%

5–9414%

10–1913%

20–4927%

50–9913%

100–1990—

200–49913%

500+0—

Of 29 Canadian establishments with employees, 83% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario2172%

Quebec414%

British Columbia310%

Manitoba13%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 334, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

international competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 334 Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Design-led, with manufacturing contracted out. An entry is a product company, not a factory.

Who sets the price: Global component markets and design wins.
The software it runs on: Electronic design automation, product lifecycle and test systems.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3346 Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3346

Vinyl Record Pressing PlantOne thing must be true

binding constraint: market size

The pre-screen called media reproduction a declining category, and for most of this code that is simply right: CDs, DVDs, tape and shrink-wrapped software have gone to downloads and streaming, and what remains is 29 Canadian establishments, 20 of them with one to four people, and one large plant. But Statistics Canada's examples for this code include phonograph record manufacturing, and vinyl is the one format here that is growing, so that is the proposition tested rather than assumed away. The RIAA's year-end report puts US vinyl at US$1,042.9M wholesale in 2025, up 9.3%, on 46.8 million units — a nineteenth consecutive year of growth — while CDs fell 7.8% to US$312.4M [A]. The cut is the size of the pool. That US$1.04B is what labels receive for finished records; the pressing plant is paid a manufacturing fee per disc out of it, and the label keeps the rest. The whole US market is 46.8 million discs a year across every plant on the continent and the European plants that also serve it, and all physical formats together are US$1,381.0M of US$11,535.3M — 12% of recorded music [A]. Growth of 7.9% in units is about 3.4 million more records a year for the entire industry to share, and the orders that fill a plant come from a handful of major-label buyers who place them where they already have capacity and credit terms. What is left for a new plant is short runs for independent artists: real, loyal, and a small business by construction. This screen did not source pressing prices or plant capacity, so it cannot say how small — a study would start there. The design software sold to electronics makers is screened separately.

NAICS 33467 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Electronic design automation, product lifecycle and test systems.

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 83% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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