COMPANY & BUSINESS INFORMATION General / Global Australia Canada France India New Zealand Portugal Sweden United Kingdom United States of America GENERAL / GLOBAL BizWeb provides a guide to businesses on the web. Company Reports On-Line (CAROL). Carol is a free corporate on-line service offering one point access to Company Annual Reports On-Line and a range of other investor information. (Asia, Europe and United Kingdom) Corporate Information provides extensive links to company information sites around the world. Also provides for searching of information classified into technology sectors.  Goliath - Thomson-Gale's business rsearch site, offering more than 450,000 company profiles, business news, and industry research. Financial Times Company Briefings provides a directory of over 20,000 companies in 50 countries. IP-Promoter - Send SMS messages about intellectual property, innovation and technology related topics. Please feel free to: introduce your blogs or web-sites; post job offerings; advertise seminars, conferences and other events; look for service providers; present your company, business, products or services; sell your inventions; find partners; post press notices or send any other thematic messages. Industry Week - Information on the Top 1000 companies worldwide. International Business Resources on the WWW provides links to a comprehensive list of resources for business related information on the WWW. Site is maintained by Michigan State University - Centre for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Kompass Search of 1.5 million companies in 66 countries, 23 million products & services, 2.7 million executives' names and 400,000 trade & brand names. Worldpages.com provides a searchable list of directories around the world. AUSTRALIA ASIC - Australian Securities and Investment Commission is an independent government body that enforces and administers Corporations Law and consumer protection law for investments, life and general insurance, superannuation and banking throughout Australia, or Search the ASIC database. LAWPOINT - provides access a Australian Company and Business name information ($)  or Telnet at telnet.lawpoint.com.au Dun & Bradstreet - provides access to Australian Company and Business name information ($)   CANADA Business Information Site. The Business Information Site contains information on Canadian businesses and companies. Canadian company capabilities. A multimedia database with over 30,000 Canadian companies and 200,000 products and services. All of the information in Canadian Company Capabilities has been provided by the companies themselves, or by other sources external to Industry Canada. Federal corporations data online. Corporations Directorate is charged with administering the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA), the Canada Corporations Act (CCA - non-profit), the Boards of Trade Act (BOTA), the Canada Cooperative Associations Act (CCAA)and several other corporate laws governing federal companies, except for financial intermediaries. Carlson Online allows you to search for Canadian Company information. FRANCE EURIDILE The national register of businesses and organisations. Includes a searchable database. INDIA India Informer provides news archives and company information for companies in India. ($) NEW ZEALAND Company Information Database at the New Zealand Companies Office ($) PORTUGAL Portugal Offer provides information on a selection of business which can be searched by company name, region, industry, number of employees or annual sales. SWEDEN BolagsFakta provides annual reports and other financial information on Swedish companies. UNITED KINGDOM AppleGate Directories publishes four directories of company information - Electronics, Engineering, Plastics & Rubbers and Recruitment services companies Ask Alex is a fully searchable directory of UK businesses and organisations. Contains over 1.8 million records. British Chamber of Commerce site provides links to chambers of commerce all over Britan. British Department of Trade and Industry provides Government information on exports, investments, business support, regulatory guidance and competitiveness. Commerce Net is hosted on by Commerce Publications provides a searchable database of companies in the UK. Companies House is the agency responsible for registration of companies in the U.K. and the dissemination of company information. Allows searching of UK company information by company name. (only available from weekdays 5pm to 5am AEST) County Web is an interactive business directory and e-commerce portal. Contains information on the Top 1000 companies in the UK. Hoovers's Online UK provides company information in a searchable format. Kelly's includes information on more than 143,000 companies in the United Kingdom. To have full access it is necessary to register, however, registration is free. The Biz is a business directory which provides company information on UK Businesses. ThomWeb hosted by Thomson Directories provides searchable information on companies in the UK. Trade Association Network Challenge (TANC) provides a searchable list of U.K. trade associations. WebScot business directory is an searchable resource of Scottish businesses. Yahoo! Finance (UK & Ireland) provides a comprehensive directory of company information. Includes information either by company name or industry. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA American Export Register provides information on American Companies exporting to the World includes information on 45,000 companies in 5,000 product categories. CompanyFinder.Com Get company news, stock quotes and Web site information. Search by company name or product category for corporate profiles, product offerings and financial information. EDGAR / SEC Company Information Database. Hoovers Online provides US company information in a searchable format. The US Web 100 Big Business on the Web provides business information on US companies including a link to each company website. Thomas Register of American Manfacturers provides a database of American and Canadian companies. The database can be searched by Brand Name (135,415 records), Product or Service (63,669) or Company Name (156,914). Thomas Food Industry Register is the most comprehensive buying guide for food industry professionals. On this site is allows searching of more than 30,000 U.S. and Canadian suppliers of food products, ingredients, equipment, and supplies listed under 6,000 product categories. Thomas Regional on the Internet now gives you access to a searchable database of more than 500,000 manufacturers, distributors and service companies organized under 5,500 product/service categories in 19 key U.S. industrial markets. You can search by product/service or company name in the region of your choice. You can also refine your search based on company type (manufacturer, distributor, manufacturer's rep and service company), geographic location (state, city/county, area code), trade name, key words and other specifications such as ISO 9000-certified, and minority and woman-owned businesses. Internet Business Pages. Provides information on subscribing companies. Includes directories covering Pittsburg, West Virgina, New York and nationally across the US. American Depository Receipts. This provides information on non-US companies that trade on the US stock exchange. Information is supplied by JP Morgan. Fedworld allows you to search through US Government Web sites and Reports.