Research Guides: Market Research: Major Competition

Look in Company Profiles of a Competitor to find more Competitors

Hoover's Company Profiles This link opens in a new window
Company profile information on 40,000 public and non-public companies, includes: overview, history, fact sheet, financial data, competitors, products & operations, subsidiaries & affiliates, and key executives.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing indexing and abstracts for more than twice as many active, peer-reviewed, business related journals as any other database. Business Source® Premier offers indexing and abstracts for the 350 most important scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. This database includes searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.

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To learn about the major competition, you can look in the IBISWorld Report for your industry. Click on the Competitive Landscape and Major Companies tabs. Also, under the Competitive Landscape tab, you will see information on Cost Structure Benchmarks which will give you an idea the costs for your industry.