Companies & Competitors
Use the resources below to gather a better understanding about the companies in the beauty & personal care industry.
Start by looking for information about the larger or publicly-held companies first, since it is a lot more challenging to find private company information.
- Mergent Online
Contains extensive public company information including financials, filings, equity and industry reports, U.S. economic information, and much more. Information can be screened, selected, and downloaded.
- Use Mergent Online to find information about large public companies. Just search by company name.
- If you are just getting started, use Mergent to search for a known company, and then click on the "Competitors" tab to find other companies in the industry.
- D&B Hoovers
Use for company profiles, news, analyst reports, SWOT analyses, executive information, company financials, and more. Note: If you have trouble logging in, try opening the link in an Incognito or Private browser window.
- Mergent Intellect
Use to find companies and competitors by user-defined search criteria, such as size, location, industry, sales, and more. Useful for private company information which includes estimated sales.
- Use the Advanced Search to search by Industry code to identify companies in the industry by location
- From the Advanced Search Page:
- Click on Industry
- In the SIC Tree, browse to (5) Wholesale & Retail Trade"
- Select the Drop-Down Menu for (59) Miscellaneous Retail then 5999 miscellaneous stores nec
- Continue filtering until you find the industry sector you are looking for.
- Check the boxes to add industries to your search, and then select "Add to Criteria" at the bottom of the page.
- Click search, or go back to the top of the page to limit by location, size, or other criteria.
- Note that sometimes you can go too granular and not get enough results. If this is the case, go up one level in the SIC tree to select a broader industry sector.