Subject guides: Company, industry and country information: Overseas companies

Factiva

Factiva
To locate company profiles, select Companies/Markets > Companies from the drop-down menu at the top of the Factiva homepage.

You can also use the Factiva homepage to run a press search on a company.

Hoover's Company Profiles
Access profiles of 40,000+ companies worldwide.
Where available, the following information is provided:

ABI / INFORM
Access company profile reports from Acquisdata; Canadean; Experian Commercial Risk Database; ICD Research Reports; and World Market Intelligence.

To search for company reports

Click on the Advanced Search link.

Enter the name of a company into the top search box e.g. "Rio Tinto"

Use the drop-down menu at the right of the page to limit your search to the Document title - TI of each report.

Scroll to the bottom of the page. Navigate to the Document type box. Place a tick in the checkbox next to Company Profile.

IBISWorld
IBISWorld covers the top 2,000 companies in Australia and NZ by revenue. Approximately 65 companies from New Zealand are included in this database.
DatAnalysis
Access information on companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and the New Zealand Exchange.
New Zealand Companies Office
Search the companies register.

Business Source Ultimate
To search for company reports
1) Click on the Company Profiles link via the right-hand menu
2) Enter the name of a company into the search box provided.

To search for company information
1) Click on the Company Information link at the top of the Business Source Ultimate homepage.
2) Enter the name of a company into the search box provided.

Passport
Click on the Companies tab at the top of the page to access information on the world's leading consumer goods and services companies.

WARC
WARC is an advertising and marketing research database that offers "best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands."

List of company registers worldwide
You can access a list of company registers by country via Wikipedia. Depending on each country’s filing requirements, you may be able to access annual company returns, financial statements and Director details.

Popular company registry sites include:

Bloomberg terminals are one of the most popular and well regarded sources of real time financial information.

Bloomberg provides access to analyst reports and historical share prices.

Bloomberg terminals also cover currencies, commodities, derivatives, analyst forecasts, and news.

How to access a Bloomberg terminal