Key starting points
Official Company Registers www.rba.co.uk/sources/registers.htm
This page lists the official registers or registries, organised by country,
with which some forms of companies are required to register and file.
A few of the services also provide financials and annual reports if the
company is required to file them.
Company registration around the world www.commercial-register.sg.ch/home/worldwide.html
A list of official company registers around the world maintained by the Commercial Register Office of the Canton St. Gallen.
Worldwide
Registries www.companieshouse.gov.uk/links/introduction.shtml#reg
A list of official company registers by country provided by Companies
House.
Finance Yahoo uk.finance.yahoo.com
This is the URL for the UK version of Finance Yahoo. Links to other Finance
Yahoos across the world are listed towards the bottom of the page.
International resources
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publising www.bvdep.com
The full BvDEP collection of priced services covers information on approaching 60 million companies around the globe. BvDEP's products include ORBIS, AMADEUS, FAME, BANKSCOPE and the MINT range of products designed for end users. They also produce the mergers and acquisitions database ZEPHYR. There is a free company search function on their MINT portal - www.mintbusinessinfo.com Priced service with free company directory search.
CorporateInformation www.corporateinformation.com
Extensive research reports on approximately 31,000 publicly traded companies in over 55 countries. Up to 10 years of sales, earnings and price history, some of which is free of charge. There are also free top 100 lists of companies ranked by market capitalisation, sales, operating profit margin, 52 week price change and 3 year sales growth.
DataStar www.datastarweb.com
Collection of business, scientific, technical and biomedical databases with a European bias.
Dialog www.dialog.com
Collection of business, scientific, technical and biomedical databases with a US bias. Financial Times www.ft.com
Basic background information and selected key financials for quoted companies. Priced service.
Hoover's www.hoovers.com
Hoover's provides summary of activities, key current financials, key people, links to the company web site, share prices, and top competitors. The service also provides industry overviews. Some basic information is free but detailed reports are priced. LexisNexis www.lexisnexis.com
Financial information on companies world-wide from a variety of sources
and publishers. Subscription service.
OneSource www.onesource.com
OneSource pulls together company information from a variety of sources
world-wide. Information Partners include Worldscope, Graham & Whiteside,
Dun & Bradstreet, Jordans and Investext. Market research, general
and industry news are also available. Priced, subscription service.
Perfect Information www.perfectinfo.com
Products include Perfect Filings, a global database comprising over 11 million company filings. Content includes global annual and interim reports,
US annuals and paper filings, SEC filings, shareholder filings, global
bond prospectuses, and company news.
Priced, subscription service
Skyminder www.skyminder.com
Credit and financial information on companies world-wide from a
variety of sources. Subscriptions and priced pay as you go options.
Thomson Reuters thomsonreuters.com
Thomson Reuters offer a range of financial products and services. Priced subscription service.
By country
Bureau van Dijk www.bvdep.com
Access to the full BvD collection of priced services containing detailed
information for: 6 million public and private companies in Europe, 11,100
banks world-wide, 4,300 insurance companies world-wide. Priced
service but directory search is free.
HUGIN Online International
www.huginonline.com
Provides access to intermediary reports, annual reports, prospectuses
and analyst presentations on European companies. Geographical Coverage
includes UK, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Search by company name, browse alphabetical
index or industry sector. Free of charge.
Finance Yahoo uk.finance.yahoo.com
Provides access to UK listed company share prices, stock market indices
and latest financial and business news from Reuters and the Press Association.
Also covers the major European exchanges. Copies of many UK company Annual
Reports can be downloaded as PDF files or delivered by snail-mail free
of charge. This service is provided by PrecisionIR in conjunction with Yahoo!
UK.
Companies House
www.companies-house.gov.uk
The official UK body to which UK companies have to send their accounts.
You can order company documents online. This site also gives free access
to the Disqualified Directors database and Companies Name and Address
Index. Only available Monday to Saturday, 7 am to Midnight UK Time.
Corpfin CompanyQuery www.companyquery.com
CompanyQuery covers all UK limited companies registered at Companies House.
The database holds information on approximately 2.6 million companies
and data is updated daily. Information cane be downloaded into Microsoft
Excel and facsimiles of documents are available on a pay-as-you-go basis
or as part of an annual subscription.
Dun & Bradstreet UK www.dnb.com
For the UK site select United Kingdom from the "Select your country"
list. Provides links to Dun and Bradstreet's priced services.
Equifax www.equifax.co.uk
Online credit reports.
Hemmington-Scott www.hemscott.net
Free source of information on UK listed companies as well as news from
AFX and the RNS, details of Directors' share dealings, in depth financial
information on over 2300 quoted companies. Some free information, detailed information is priced. ICC www.icc.co.uk
Over 7 million UK and Irish companies:
- 1.8 million UK & 250,000 ROI unincorporated businesses
- 10 million directors and shareholder
- Over 30 million companies across Europe
- Over 400 million business document images
- 20 years of historic business data
Priced service.
SCoRe: national UK catalogue of printed company reports www.score.ac.uk
SCoRe (Search Company Reports) is a catalogue of printed company reports, both current and historic, held in UK libraries. The catalogue does not provide links to digitised documents but it is a very quick and easy way of identifying libraries that hold hard copy reports. The participating libraries include London Business School, the British Library, Manchester Business School, City Business Library, Guildhall Library, Strathclyde University and the University of Warwick. A full list is available at http://www.score.ac.uk/collections.asp.
Searching is straightforward: simply type in the company name and select a collection, or leave it as the default ‘All'. Non UK companies are also covered and you can restrict your search to a specific country by using the Advanced Search. The results give you name of the company and any variations, for example searching on Cadbury will find results on Cadbury Schweppes, Fry Cadbury, Cadbury Brothers etc. The libraries that hold copies of the reports are listed together with the earliest and latest years of a collection's holdings.
A bonus of this service is that it suggests you look at related companies so in addition to locating historical annual reports, this service is a good place to pick up clues on past corporate relationships
UK Data www.ukdata.com
UK Data provides pay as you go access to company credit reports and Companies House accounts on all UK and International Ltd Companies.
It also offers free alert monitoring of all UK and Irish Ltd companies for changes to their credit scores, filing of accounts, and any county court judgments.
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France
EURIDILE - Le Registre National
du Commerce et des Sociétés - RNCS www.euridile.inpi.fr
Official register of over 3,200,000 French companies. Basic company
information free of charge. Priced service for detailed information and
accounts. In French.
Finfacts www.finfacts.ie
Comprehensive listings of Irish financial and business information resources
with links to share price services world-wide.
Italy
Cerved www.cerved.com
Providers of value-added business information and distributor of official
data filed with Italy's Chambers of Commerce. This is a primary source
of information about Italian companies. Information provided includes
credit reports, company profiles, summary financial statements (balance
sheet, profit & loss accounts and ratios), copy of the official accounts
as images. More than 4 million Italian companies are covered, of which
600,000 are public and private limited share companies and limited liability
companies (Spa & Srl). Payment can be made by credit card or pre-paid
Reteaffari contract. Priced service. Available in Italian and English.
Comas Business information - Online credit report - Debt collection www.infocomas.com
Credit reports and business information on Italian companies.
The Italian Company Credit Report includes balance sheet items and ratios, risk assessment, bankruptcy evaluation, and expresses the maximum recommended credit limit.
The Balance Sheets service provides reclassified balance sheets of Italian companies (such as SRL (LTD) and SPA (PLC)) that contain the main information from official balance sheets filed at the Chambers of Commerce. Two types of balance sheets are available:
- Balance Sheet with financial ratios (1 year) grouped in homogenous sections
- Balance Sheet with financial ratios (3 years) and comparisons of the last 3 balance sheets
Debt recovery servicesand company marketing lists are also available.
Services available pay as you go or as pre-paid subscription
Latvia
Lursoft www.lursoft.lv
Provides information about all enterprises, public organizations and
foreign company agencies registered within the territory of Latvia including
their managers, shareholders fixed capital and annual accounts. The information
is based on original documents of the Register of Enterprises (RE). In
Latvian and English. Basic company information free of charge. Priced
service for more detailed information including accounts.
Norway
Brønnøysund Register Centre www.brreg.no
The Brønnøysund Register Centre is a government body under the Norwegian
Ministry of Trade and Industry, and consists of several different national
EDP registers. These registers contain information and key data on: liabilities
and titles in mortgaged movable property; more than 280,000 business enterprises;
more than 1,300,000 annual accounts and auditor's reports of limited companies;
bankruptcies and compulsory liquidations; approximately 200,000 marriage
settlements. In Norwegian and English. Priced service.
Portugal
Equifax Spain www.asnefequifax.es
Covers Portuguese as well as Spanish companies. Priced service.
Infoline Spain www.infoline.es
Infoline specialises in Spanish and Portuguese companies and has
a collection that goes back to 1968. Infoline provides annual reports
and other documents of public and private companies. The documents are
black and white scanned copies of the originals, stored on CD-ROMs. Requested
documents are printed and immediately sent via courier or regular post,
or in electronic format via e-mail in PDF format. Orders can be placed
via email or telephone. Priced pay as you go service.
Romania
Creditinfo Romania www.creditinfo.ro
Information on over 600,000 Romanian companies, including shareholders,
company address, telephone, company activities, financials, registration
number. You can search the database free of charge and you can also view
company name, address, registration number and company type. Additional
information is priced and varies depending on the type of report. Priced
service with credit card pay as you go option.
Spain
Equifax Spain www.asnefequifax.es
Available in Spanish, English, French and German. Priced service.
Infoline Spain www.infoline.es
Infoline specialises in Spanish and Portuguese companies and has
a collection that goes back to 1968. It includes more than 5.5 Million
documents from around 80,000 companies from 60 countries. Since
1990, Infoline provides annual reports and other documents of public and
private companies. The documents are black and white scanned copies of
the originals, stored on CD-ROMs. Requested documents are printed and
immediately sent via courier or regular post, or in electronic format
via e-mail in PDF format. Orders can be placed via email or telephone.
Priced pay as you go service.
Africa
African Financials www.africanfinancials.com
African Financials is a free Annual Reports portal focusing on investment in Africa. If you need an annual report on an African listed company this is a good place to start. There are 1100 reports and you can browse by sector, year or country. There are also links to CEO blogs and recently added documents. The IPO section lists rumoured, expected, recent, current, archived, cancelled, and postponed IPOs. Some of the IPO documents are available via the Download section.
China
China Company Research Services www.ccrs.info
China Company Research Services (CCRS) provides detailed information on
Chinese companies. The data is locally sourced by Chinese researchers
and then edited and assessed by experienced Western company information
analysts. CCRS is able to research and report on any company in China
to the depth required, for example from simple Registration Searches (to
confirm that a company is legally incorporated) to detailed and in-depth
profiles. Information can include corporate details, export licence details,
business operations, history, strategic/political factors, International
connections, financial status, reputation, rating, overall assessment.
There are three standard report formats - Full, Overview, Credit - or
you can pick and mix from 25 separate modules. There are sample reports
on the web site that give you an idea of the formats and structure. Prices
vary, but for pay as you go there is a minimum charge of £30 per company.
India
Indiainfoline.com - Company
Reports www.indiainfoline.com
EDINET http://info.edinet-fsa.go.jp/
EDINET (Electronic Disclosure for Investors' NETwork) is Japan's electronic filing system for disclosure documents under the Securities and Exchange Law of Japan. It is similar to the EDGAR system used by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The site is in Japanese.
Bureau van Dijk www.bvdep.com
Detailed Information on 100,000 public and private companies. Priced
service.
japancompanyindex www.japancompany.info/JAPANCOMPANYINDEX.html
Free machine translations of 5000 Japanese public company filings provided by Roderick Seeman. The indexes are Excel spreadsheets.
Mizuho Securities
www.mizuho-sc.com/english/ebond/index.html
For anyone researching Japanese markets and companies, Japan based Mizuho
Securities has an excellent collection of information and links to English
language resources on Japanese finance, economy, politics and law. This
includes a comprehensive list of links to the English language web sites
of Japanese financial institutions and listed companies.
Corporate
Direct www.c-direct.ne.jp/en/de/de-index.html
Provides access to information and annual reports from Japanese companies. Companies can
be browsed alphabetically by name or by industry sector. You can view
the site in either English or Japanese.
The Americas
US
Annual Reports
www.annualreports.com
A free service providing the latest US company annual reports as PDFs or hardcopy and links to the relevant section of the company's web site.
Dun & Bradstreet www.dnb.com
Priced D&B reports on US companies. Corporate customers can
use their existing account to pay for reports. There are also "Pay-as-you-go" reports (payment by credit card).
KnowX www.knowx.com
Please note: KnowX currently restricts access to its products based on the geographical location of the client system. UK users cannot access the service at present.
Provides access to services such as Dun and Bradstreet, and Experian.
It also enables you to search the company databases of most of states
of the US. These include Limited Liability Companies (LLC). Click on the KnowX Standard tab and follow the
link "Corporate Records", which is under "Businesses". You
can then search on company name and a state or all states. It lists, free
of charge, the companies it has found and the state in which they are
incorporated. Further information is available for a fee and payment is
by credit card.
Public Register Annual
Report Service www.annualreportservice.com
PRARS provides online access to over 2,300 annual reports of US listed
companies. There is an alphabetical index which provides links to the
company home page, a direct link to the section of the company site that
contains the annual report or SEC filings, and a link to the company's
SEC filings (up to 5 years) on the Edgar Online Site.
SEC EDGAR Database www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
The official archive of SEC filings. Since May 1996 all SEC listed companies
are required to file electronically.
Alternatives to the official EDGAR site
SEC Info www.secinfo.com
SEC Info is an interface to the official SEC filings. Very quick and easy to use. Free service.
Canada
SEDAR www.sedar.com
System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval. The electronic
filing system for the disclosure documents of public companies and mutual
funds across Canada.
Equifax Canada www.equifax.ca
Available in English and French. Priced service.
Brazil
Equifax Brasil www.equifax.com.br
Available in Portuguese. Priced service.
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