July - August 2001
is a service designed to direct you towards major web sites that will be of value to your company. Only a small proportion of useful links can be listed in the Bulletin. For more links, select Information & know-how from the top of the screen then Links to other sites.
Business information
Companies House gives access to a search engine to check basic details, such as name and address, company number and date of incorporation on any limited company in the UK. For more detail it is necessary to pay a fee.
www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
earl.org.uk is a good starting point for anyone wanting business information. It is a listing of the main sites for business information. It includes sets of links on news, business directories, UK business resources, business in Europe, world markets and the global economy.
www.earl.org.uk/earlweb/busns.html
Financial Times allows you to search not only the Financial Times itself, but also most of the other broadsheet newspaper, and some international ones. Beware though, not all the articles from each paper are included.
news.ft.com/home/uk/
Kompass - for company information worldwide - this site gives you the ability to search by product, company name or trade mark. Some information is available free, but more is available to subscribers.
www.kompass.com
Open Government - a useful site for finding information about government departments and documents published. It is a complex site, which you will need to spend some time exploring.
www.open.gov.uk/index.htm
Profound is a site designed to help you find market information. It contains market, country and company briefings (US biased), a wire news service and full text market surveys from approximately 80 well known companies. The subscription is high, and downloading of information from the surveys incurs further cost, but if you cover a wide variety of markets it may be a worthwhile investment.
www.profound.co.uk/
