What is company industry?
Company industry is the vertical classification of an account (e.g. "Software", "Financial Services", "Manufacturing"). It's a primary ICP-fit signal and the standard segmentation axis for territory plans. LinkedIn maintains the most consistent industry taxonomy among free sources; specialised B2B databases (ZoomInfo, Cognism) provide more granular sub-industry codes.
For B2B teams operating from a list of company website values, company industry is typically among the first 3-5 fields enriched on a fresh list. It feeds personalisation, segmentation, and routing logic - all of which need company industry to be present and current before any downstream automation runs.