Division I: Services | Major Group 86: Membership Organizations | Industry Group 861: Business Associations

8611 Business Associations
Membership organizations engaged in promoting the business interests of their members. Associations owned by their members but organized to perform a specific business function, such as common marketing of crops or joint advertising, are classified according to the function performed.

• Better business bureaus
• Boards of trade, other than security and commodity exchanges
• Business associations, other than civic and social
• Chambers of Commerce
• Contractor's associations
• Growers'associations, not engaged in contract buying or selling
• Growers'marketing advisory services
• Industrial standards committees
• Junior Chambers of Commerce
• Manufacturers'institutes
• Merchants'associations, not engaged in credit investigations
• Public utility associations
• Real estate boards
• Shipping and steamship company associations
• Trade associations