As a student, it can be difficult to decide which databases or web sites you might want to use for your research and it will be dependent on the question you are trying to answer.
Company information resources can help you compare companies across industries, financial or employee criteria and research individual companies of interest. Depending how much detail you are looking for, you can access short profiles that give you an overview of individual companies or build detailed reports for companies that fit your criteria, including full balance sheets, income statements, ratios and more.
Where to find company information
Company Information Resource Guide
Our Company Information guide draws together the resources that we have at Newcastle University for finding company profiles, financial data and executive information. Visit the Company Information guide to access our University subscriptions on and off campus.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a full text business database that covers management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. It has full text access for nearly 3,600 scholarly, business related journals. It also includes trade publications, industry profiles, company profiles and SWOT analysis.
Company Information can be found in a basic search across all of Business Source Complete. You can either search by a company name or BSC will suggest companies that are linked to your topic keywords.
Alternatively, you can search within the Company Information section by company name.
What else can you find in BSC?
Company Profiles
The Company Profiles section found under the more menu gives
you access to a full profile report for thousands of companies.
Search by the company name. It includes detailed company
information for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest
public and private companies.Information includes financials,
subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information and
more.
Company Profiles are drawn from a number of different sources
including:
- Marketline: A business information company covering the automotive,
consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare and technology
sectors. Used to called Datamonitor. - Medtrack Company Profiles: A biopharmaceutical corporate intelligence company.
Industry Profiles
Nearly 10,000 Industry Profiles that are updated annually. These are full text and can come from a variety of different providers including Marketline.
Nexis
Nexis is a major full text database for global news and business information.
Access to over 35,000 sources, with more than 12,000 international news sources including UK daily and regional newspapers, and company information for over 200 million companies worldwide.
In Nexis you can :
- find newspaper articles and trade journal articles on a business related topic
- gather information about a company, industry, country and people
- keep up to date on a topic of interest
Company and financial reports
- 180 company databases from around the world
- Coverage of over 200 million companies worldwide (public and private)
- Over 20 million US companies included (public and private)
- In-depth company profiles
- Company snapshots
- Financial analysis and competitor information
Industry and Country Reports
- Daily industry-led news
- Comprehensive monthly/quarterly reports
- Industry & country driven reports including SWOT, forecastings, market trends and analysis
- Multi-national sector directories broken down by key industry verticals
Companies Search
Use the Companies tab to look up factual data on a company. For example name of executives, ages, bonuses, salaries, description of the company, history of how they were funded and competitors.
For advanced use of Nexis, select the Power Search. This allows you to be very specific about the keywords you enter, where you would like them to appear in the article and which publications you would like to search.
Bureau van Dijk databases
At Newcastle University we subscribe to three products which provide access to company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management information.
Fame
This resource covers UK and Irish companies providing data for company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management.
- Turnover > £1.5 million
- Profits > £150,000
- Shareholder Funds > £1.5 million
Amadeus
This resource covers standardised annual accounts (for up to 10 years), consolidated and unconsolidated, financial ratios, activities and ownership for over 7 million companies throughout Western and Eastern Europe, including Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine and Russian Federation. Company financials are in a standard format so you can compare companies across borders. Information includes Financial strength indicators, directors, images of reports and accounts for listed companies, stock prices and detailed corporate structures
- Operating revenue > €15 million
- Total assets > €30 million
- Number of employees > 150
Oriana
This resource covers accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for around 80,000 very large companies across the Asia-Pacific region, including China, Singapore, Hong Kong and India. information includes company financials, financial strength indicators, directors and contacts, original filings/ images, detailed corporate structures, market research and economic country profiles and outlooks, business and company- related news and M&A deals and rumours
- Operating Revenue >= 100 million EUR (130 million USD)
- Total assets >= 200 million EUR (260 million USD)
- Employees >= 1,000
Where else to look?
The University subscribes to a number of business news sources, including online access to the Financial Time and the Economist. Visit the Business News Resource Guide to find out how to access the University Library subscriptions for free, including downloading the Financial Times app.
The Business School also provide alternative resources to find company information, which you can access via the Business Subject Guide.
Don’t forget to check out our Company Information Resource Guide and the Business Subject Guide for additional help and resources.
If you have any questions about any of these resources, please contact you Business Library team via Library Help.