Spanning the Globe to Bring You... the Best in Global Business Information
By Leanne Battle
Remember how ABC’s Wide World of Sports opened each episode? “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport … the thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat.”
While global business research is rarely a contact sport, it is often a race against the clock. And the LexisNexis services can help you move you toward the thrill of victory with global company resources. I’d like to highlight just a few.
Global Reports Cover Public Companies in 100+ Countries
Recently LexisNexis added annual and interim reports provided by Global Reports, LLC. The Global Reports source offers a rolling three years of reports from public companies in more than 100 countries. You can find Global Reports under the lexis.com NEWS & BUSINESS tab under Company & Financial > Company Profiles & Directories as well as in the Company & Financial menus of specific geographic regions.
You can search Global Reports using a company name, stock exchange, country of incorporation and date. Search results appear in reverse chronological order and alphabetically by company name within the chronology. Review your results then link to the reports, which are presented in full-color PDFs with charts, tables and photographs.* For those instances when you need earlier reports, links are available to access reports directly from Global Reports, LLC, back to 1996.
The reports appear in the native language of the filing company and include information about company executives, financials, subsidiaries, sales and marketing activities.
Do you need to keep track of subsequent filings as they are made available? Don’t forget the LexisNexis Alert feature. The Save As Alert link appears at the top of the results screen in any original search. Just click the link and fill in the Save form, including update schedule such as weekly, business weekly or monthly. Perhaps you are waiting for the first filing from a company that has just gone public. The Alert feature can watch for you, even letting you know when no new reports have been filed.
Get Details on More Than 270,000 Chinese Companies
Another terrific new source for global company information is Mergent Private Chinese Companies. It is also located in the NEWS & BUSINESS tab > Company Profiles & Directories. These profiles include business descriptions, executive and key contact information, production data, financial data and statements for more than 270,000 Chinese companies of all sizes. The text is presented in English, and the financials are displayed in the appropriate Chinese currency.
Dozens of search segments are available to provide the most precise searching: COMPANY, CONTACT, DESCRIPTION, EMPLOYEES, EQUITY and INDUSTRY just to name a few.
Need Facts on Inactive Companies? Ask WorldScope
Global business research on active companies is certainly a challenge, but similar research on now inactive companies can seem impossible sometimes. Fortunately you can use Worldscope International Company Profiles to find information on active and inactive companies!
Worldscope profiles provide descriptive, executive and financial information for 28,000+ companies
in 54 countries. Add the segment OPERATING-STATUS(inactive) to your search, e.g., ADDRESS(milwaukee) AND OPERATING-STATUS(inactive) to restrict your search to inactive companies. Further refine your search using any combination of other segments, including SIC codes, currency, founded date and shareholder.
Having these and thousands of LexisNexis news and business resources at your fingertips virtually ensures a victory for your next global business research assignment. And don’t forget that your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant is always on your team!
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*There is an additional charge for retrieving the PDF report. This content may not be available to all government subscribers.
