Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management: Find Industry info. & competitors

To see local competitors in the Roanoke region, use the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce's Directory Search.

For national competitors, one of the best ways to search for data about a publicly-traded company is to use the ticker symbol. Don't know it? Look it up at http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/lookup.asp

The best way to search for data about an entire industry is to first look up the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) number for that industry here: https://www.census.gov/naics/

Then, use the NAICS code to search for Industry Profiles in the databases.