Library: Company Information: Competitors

How to find competitors

Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window A unique database that brings together a wide variety of resources that cover companies and industries.
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This innovative resource includes company profiles (with corporate parent/sibling relationships), industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, industry statistics, financial ratios, case studies, and corporate chronologies and history. Coverage is from 1980-present.

1. Enter the company name in the main search box.
2. Bring up the company profile.
3. Scroll down. Under Competitors, find a list of competitors.
4.. Select the blue tab to compare your company with its major competitors in Employees and Revenue.

Business Searching Interface This link opens in a new window This is an enhanced interface for Business Source Premier which allows users direct access to screens for browsing Company or Industry Profiles and Country or Market Research Reports.
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In addition, the following source types are included: academic journals, SWOT analyses, trade publications, industry profiles, company profiles, market research reports and product reviews.

1. Select: Company Profiles
2. In the Browse for box, type your company
3. When it comes up, select the MarketLine report.
4. Scroll to the Table of Contents and select: Top Competitors

Company Dossier (NexisUni) This link opens in a new window
From the Menu drop down box at the top of the page, select: Company Dossier. Information is gathered from a wide array of sources, including: Standard and Poor's Corporate Descriptions, Hoover's Company Reports, Disclosure Reports and more. Subject areas include: Business & Financial News, U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, industry ratios, and SEC filings.

1. From the Nexis/Uni home page, slide to the top of the page.
2. Click in the drop-down box by Menu. Select: Company Dossier

3. Type your company in the Company Name box, and Search.
4. Select your company from the Results List
5. From the left column, under Company Information, select: Competitors