ICM Research competitor research services can help you find the answers to questions like these and more. We'll check news databases globally, looking for items mentioning your competitors, their products, people or technologies. We'll scan the industry and regional press world-wide for relevant information. We'll check patent and trademark databases, company filing records, planning applications, government records and so on. Whatever is relevant and likely to hold information that will help answer your query. We also search the Internet, but a lot of information is still not there and a lot of what is, cannot easily be found using conventional search engines. As part of our research we check "deep-web" databases on the Internet that are missed by search engines (patent records are just one example).If necessary we'll also carry out interviews with customers, suppliers, industry experts and trade management.