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The Business Plan Workbook, 11th Edition
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The Business Plan Workbook, 11th Edition

by Colin Barrow
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 33m
English
Kogan Page
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ASSIGNMENT 5 Researching competitors

Researching the competition is often a time-consuming and frustrating job, but there are important lessons to be learnt from it. Some of the information that would be of most value to you will not be available. Particularly hard to find is information relating to the size and profitability of your competitors. Businesses, and particularly smaller businesses, are very secretive about their finances. Because of this, you may have to make estimates of the size and profitability of various firms.

Research on competitors

When you begin your research, it is crucial that you make an accurate determination of your competitors. Remember, just because someone sells a similar product or service, that does not necessarily ...

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