Finding International Company Information

The purpose of this guide is to provide useful resources for finding information on international companies and private companies.

Company Annual Reports

SEC Filings
Free SEC Filings are available from the U.S. Securities and Commission, New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange.
U.S. Securities and Commission
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange

AnnualReports.com (IR Solutions)
Provides full text of annual reports for over 2,200 companies. This site also provides links to the company home pages and to the exhanges the company is listed on.

CAROL - Company Annual Reports On-line (Carol)
Registered to access annual reports of listed companies in Europe and the States.

Company Profiles and Company Information

Factiva (Dow Jones & Reuters)
Using the Companies/Markets tab from the top green toolbar menu to get company profile, stock prices, charting, latest news, press releases and key competitors.


Business Source Premier
Ebsco's aggregation of business and management journals indexes and abstracts 3350 journals in nearly every area of business including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting and international business. It provides full text of more than 2800 scholarly publications including the world's top management and marketing journals, many back to 1922 or the first issue.

Look at Company Profiles in the Browse section on the right hand side. This provides Datamonitor Reports for many companies both in Australia & overseas.


Kompass Australia
Globally, Kompass offers access to information on: 1.8 million companies, 750,000 trade & brand names, 3.6 million executive names. In Australia the database contains: 32,685 companies, 56,041 executive names. Company profiles are modified every year, although data content per company may vary and is dependent on information provided to Kompass by each company.


Stock Exchanges (Data Centre)
This page lists official websites of all Stock Exchanges. These official websites provide you up-to-date listed company announcements and press releases.

Portal page to listing the official websites of all Stock Exchanges. Stock Exchange websites are one of the most reliable sources for listed company information. Most of Stock Exchange official websites provide free annual reports (e.g. London Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange) and company profiles(e.g. almost all Stock Exchange websites) of companies listed on the Exchanges.

Hoover's (D&B)
Limited free access to company profile and financials.

CorporateInformation.com (CI)
Extenisve collection of both private and public corporate profiles.

Company Announcements, Press Releases & News

Factiva (Dow Jones & Reuters)
Using the Companies/Markets tab from the top green toolbar menu to get company profile, stock prices, charting, latest news, press releases and key competitors.


VERVO Financial Company IPO Stock News and Announcements
Stock Exchanges (Data Centre)
This page lists official websites of all Stock Exchanges. These official websites provide you up-to-date listed company announcements and press releases.

Newspapers, Business Magazines & Journal Articles

Factiva (Dow Jones & Reuters)
Using the Companies/Markets tab from the top green toolbar menu to get company profile, stock prices, charting, latest news, press releases and key competitors.

Business Source Premier
Ebsco's aggregation of business and management journals indexes and abstracts 3350 journals in nearly every area of business including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting and international business. It provides full text of more than 2800 scholarly publications including the world's top management and marketing journals, many back to 1922 or the first issue.

Look at Company Profiles in the Browse section on the right hand side. This provides Datamonitor Reports for many companies both in Australia & overseas.



ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
This database is one of the world's largest for business and industry. Excellent to locate articles on; companies, industry sectors, management practices and issues, finance, accounting, banking, economics.


Competitors and Peer Analysis

Factiva (Dow Jones & Reuters)
Using the Companies/Markets tab from the top green toolbar menu to get company profile, stock prices, charting, latest news, press releases and key competitors.



Stock Exchanges (Data Centre)
page to listing the official websites of all Stock Exchanges. Stock Exchange websites are one of the most reliable sources for listed company information. Most of Stock Exchange official websites provide free annual reports (e.g. London Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange) and company profiles(e.g. almost all Stock Exchange websites) of companies listed on the Exchanges.

Company Websites

All International Listed Companies Financial Performance & Market Data Factiva (Dow Jones & Reuters)
Using the Companies/Markets tab from the top green toolbar menu to get company profile, stock prices, charting, latest news, press releases and key competitors.

Credit Rating

Standard & Poor's (S&P)
Standard & Poor's is one of the world's preeminent providers of credit and country ratings. Registered to access information about current ratings information; corporate governance scores...etc.

Moody's (Moody's Investors Service)
Moody's Investors Service is among the world's most respected, widely utilized sources for credit ratings, research and risk analysis. Registered to get limited access to credit rating information.

Ranking Lists & Private Companies

The Forbes Global 2000 (Forbes)
Forbes comprehensive ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by a composite of sales, profits, assets and market value. The list spans 51 countries and 27 industries.

America's 10 Largest Private Companies (Forbes)
Annual listing of largest U.S.-headquartered firms that don't have widely held common stock, and revenue of more than $1 billion.

The 100 Largest non-U.S. Private Companies (Forbes)

Company rankings from Business.com a variety of lists including top 1000, top US 500) (Inc.com)
Annual listing of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The entire list for the current year can be viewed or there is a search facility to search the listings back to 1982. It can be searched by company name or by keywords.

Red Herring 100 (RedHerring)
Free access to the top 100 private companies profiles and links in North America.

UNCTAD Largest Transnational corporations


A complete list of databases can be found at Electronic Resources - databases from the library homepage



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