Library Guides: Company information: Company information

About company information

Company information refers to reported information about companies including:

Company accounts
Financial statements
Registered addresses
The legal form of a company

Directors' details
SIC codes
Share prices

Due to legal reporting requirements in most countries, you will be able to find out more information about publicly listed companies than private limited companies, and even less about sole traders.

Using company information

You can use this data for coursework, projects and when looking for a job.

Information taken from City Library databases must not be used for commercial purposes, including for university placements.

Special login details are required for some databases. These are listed on Moodle for Business students. All other students, please contact Library Services for details.

Some financial resources are only available on specific bookable PCs in the library.

Key resources for company information

Fame
Provides profit and loss, balance sheet, ratios and trends, stock prices, credit score and rating information (where available) for major public and private British companies. Lists of companies can be created using any combination of 300 search items.

Please note that Bureau van Dijk resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Orbis
A financial database with information on over 250 million companies around the world. Orbis includes accounting and financial data on both public and private companies. It can be used to research individual companies or to find lists matching specific profiles to analyse.

Please note that Bureau van Dijk resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Mergent Online
Company financials, stock prices, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors, long - term debt and capital stock.

Mergent Online Quick Tips.
Mergent Archives
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to present day including, digitised manuals from Moody's archives, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual reports for global companies going back to 1925 and a historical Mergent industry reports
from 2003.
MarketLine Advantage
Use the Company Search for profiles on major companies. You can see biographies of key executives and employees, history of companies, as well as SWAT analyses.

User Guide (PDF, 2.1 MB).
Nexis UK
Use the Company search to find profiles produced by business information providers like Dunn & Bradstreet (Hoovers), Worldscope and Reuters.

The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
Factiva
Select Companies/Markets and use the Smart Search to find a complete profile of a company. Alternatively, use Industry option to see an overview of a particular industry.

The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
Business Source Complete
Scroll to the bottom to search for companies by name or to search for industries using industry classifications, SIC and NAICS.
CB Insights
CB Insights is a global private company database that covers daily real-time information about venture capital, angel investor-backed private startups. It also contains M&A and IPO news, private equity and industry analysis. Please note that there is a limit of 4000 profile views and 4000 downloads per user per year.

Students and staff should email the Business Library to request an account. Your City email address is only used for log-in, CB Information Services do not use this information for any other purpose.

CB Insights Registration Information
For access to CB Insights, please contact the Business Library on businesslibrary@city.ac.uk

Further resources for company information

Bloomberg
A global financial markets database providing news, analytics, real time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts.

Limitation Not currently available due to university building closures. Please contact businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for advice on alternative sources of information.

Available on six bookable terminals in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library and from ten bookable terminals in the Bloomberg Finance Lab (Room G005). There are also ten bookable terminals in the Financial Resources Suite on the 5th floor of Northampton Square Library. Bloomberg Getting Started Guide for Students ; Certification instructions
Eikon (Refinitiv)
Eikon contains news, analytics and financial content. It also includes a range of prices for multiple assets, fundamentals, estimates and charts. Includes data from Worldscope, I/B/E/S, Lipper and Asset 4. Use the Excel Add-In to download data and access Datastream.

Limitation A limited number of Eikon usernames are available for off-site access. These will be issued on a first come, first served basis each day and will expire at 09:00 BST the following day. For access and further details please email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.

Available on campus only from five bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library and three bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Suite on the 5th floor of Northampton Square Library. Also available from 16 non-bookable PCs in Room 1010 (Business School). Online training videos for Eikon. Eikon Certification (use your University email address to register).
Filings Expert
International database of original company documents. Includes Annual Reports, Accounts and Interims, Circulars (IPOs, M&A documents, etc.), RIS news, Investor Presentations and transcripts, SEC Filings, and Bond prospectuses. Private company accounts for top 500 companies from 17 jurisdictions.
Mergent Archives
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to present day including, digitised manuals from Moody's archives, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual reports for global companies going back to 1925 and a historical Mergent industry reports
from 2003.
Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance
WRDS dataset. Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance provides detailed research on over 150,000 active audits and more than 10,000 accounting firms. Includes detailed categorisations of issues to enable tracking and analysis of public company disclosures.

To access WRDS datasets, click 'Register' on the WRDS homepage. Register using your City email address. Under 'Affiliation Type', postgraduate and undergraduate students should select 'Masters/Undergrad'.

You will receive an email within two working days asking you to agree to the Terms & Conditions. Follow the instructions in the email to finish setting up your account.

Please note that we do not have a subscription to the Corporate and Legal module.

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