Companies & Competitors
Use the resources below to gather a better understanding about the companies in the candy and sugar confections 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.
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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.
D&B Hoovers contains both public and private company information.
- If you are just getting started, try searching for a known large public company, such as The Hershey Company.
- Once you have fully researched a known company, look at the "Competitors" section to find additional companies to research.
You can also search by industry to find a list of industry participants.
- Select "Search Industries" in the search menu in the top-right of the page to look for terms such as "candy," "confectionery," "chocolate," "gum," etc.
- Choose an industry to find an industry summary, news, some market research reports, and a list of industry participants.
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Mergent Market Atlas
Formerly "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.
- Mergent Market Atlas offers extensive and detailed information about public companies.
- Search for public companies in the industry to gather company financials, supply chain, segmentation, and other information.
- Look under the Analysis tab to find a list of Industry Peers.
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Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni (previously known as LexisNexis Academic for ages) is a great source for company or industry news, company profiles, legal cases, financials, family trees, accounting publications, law journals, and more.
- Nexis Uni is a great one-stop resource for a ton of company and industry information.
- Start with the "Find a Company" link in the middle of the page to open the Company Dossier.
- Start with a known public company first, such as The Hershey Company, to find company information, financials, news, competitors, legal cases.
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PrivCo
A fantastic source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. The primary area of focus is on private companies with at least $1 Million in annual revenue or $1 Million in VC/PE funding.
- Search by name of a known private company.
- for example, World's Finest Chocolate.
- Or use the search filter to screen for companies by keyword.
- Try "Confectionery" as a keyword in the filter.
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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 Intelllect to create a list of companies in your industy.
- Start by using the Industry Search tab and search for "candy" to find "2064 Candy and Other Confectionery Products."
- Note that you may need to run similar searches to capture all of the available companies.
- For example, The Heshey Company is defined by Mergent Intellet in the "Chcoloate and cocoa products" industry, so you would need to do a similar search as above for that industry.