Q. How do I find business information?

Annual company reports

For a recent annual company report, try searching for pages called Investors or About Us on the company’s website. These pages are usually found at the top of the homepage. You can also look at our Business and Management LibGuide for further advice.

You can find 10 years of financial data on UK registered companies by searching Fame (UK) and 10 years of financial data on the largest companies around the world on Orbis (Global).

Market research or market share information

You can try the following e-resources:

1. For consumer products, go to Passport and do a text search for the company producing the product, or the product or brand itself and load all the results.

• You can then go to the Statistics section, then Company Shares or Brand Shares. This provides the market share information for global company brands.
• Company reports on Passport include a competitive positioning section which includes market share information

2. Based on annual accounts, you could use Fame (UK) or Orbis (Global). This is particularly useful if you know the companies you want to compare.

• You could search for company names one by one (using expert search)
• Add them to the search screen
• Use Peer Analyses (click on pie chart) to bring up the market share according to turnover

3. Some market research reports include market share:

• Datamonitor reports on Business Source Complete – industry or company profiles