The Company Merchant Limited supply a wide variety of business information reports, from simple company information through to full business credit reports showing a detailed financial analysis of the company, with examples to view of each type so you know the type of information which is likely to be included on your company credit report.

When searching for companies, spacing full stops, capital letters etc are not required. When searching for officers of a company, the name has to start with the information you type in - if you know a person is called Anthony Smith but you dont know if its Anthony or Antony you can either search for Ant Smith to get close, or A Smith (which will pick up Andrew, Aaron etc)

Company Information & Company Credit Reports

Our entry level Company Profile Report at £4.99 +VAT (Profile business summary report here) gives basic company information including possible previous company name, registered office address, date of incorporation, dates of latest accounts, and lastest annual return, a count of how many CCJ's have been lodged against that address, brief details of filing history (which documents have been filed with Companies House) and where possible a brief summary of their accounts. As an entry level report, this gives an excellent first look into a company.

Our Company Express Report at £9.99 +VAT (Express company credit report here) is a step up from the Profile report and is the first of our reports to include credit risk information and often includes Directory information such as trading address (as opposed to Registered Office address), telephone and fax numbers, auditors and bankers details.

Our Company Overview Report at £15.99 +VAT (Overview business credit report here) steps up from the Express to include a Company/Industry comparison and a more detailed breakdown of the accounts.

The Company Financial Report at £23.99 +VAT (Financial company report here) shows the details of any CCJ's along with any shareholding information stored on the database along with a much more detaied financial view

The Company Business Report at £34.99+VAT (Business analysis and Risk assessment credit report here) is the top of the range report, showing all information that we have relating to the analysis of the company detail. If there are any mortgages or charges against the company, the most recent 5 are shown, a more detailed breakdown of the financial information and details (name, address, date of birth, appointment date, occupation and the number of present appointments and resigned appointments for each director and secretary, and shareholder information where possible

Director Reports

The Company Directors Report at £11.99+VAT (example Company Director's report here) is a full listing of each director and secretary involved in the company, along with their address, date of birth, date of appointment and the number of other appointments and resignations. This gives you a good overview to see whether the officers involved in running the company are also involved in other companies. You can then make your own judgement as to whether an officer who has 37 other directorships is worth investigating further - especially if the company you are initially investigating is quite new.

The Individual Directors Report at £7.99 +VAT (example Individual Director report here) is a full listing of all companies which involve the officer you are looking into. The report includes the company name, registration number, date of appointment, latest accounts date, latest turnover, pre-tax profit and net worth. It is useful to see that a person who is involved in the company you are dealing with also has other interests in other companies.

Sole Traders / Partnerships Reports

A sole trader / partnership business (i.e. the company has not been registered with Companies House) does not file any accounts anywhere and does not have directors or shareholders to appoint or resign and therefore our sole trader reports are based on general information about the company. CCJ's however are associated with a particular address and so the Insight Plus report can report on whether the location has had any CCJ's and so whether possibly there is any risk, but this is not based on any accounts information is thre is none available

The Insight Report at £11.99 +VAT (example business report here) gives brief details of an non limited, sole trader/partnership type business. along with a list of possible county court judgements. CCJ's relating to similar names but at different addresses are also reported (in case the business has moved premises) however you should do further investigations to check whether these relate to the same company or not.

The Insight Plus Report at £21.99 +VAT (example credit risk report here) takes the Insight Report and adds Risk information (a credit limit / risk guide) to help you determine the credit worthyness of the business.

All information provided should be used in conjunction with additional information and your own judgement. The Company Merchant Limited, cannot be held responsible for decisions that you make based on the information provided in a report. Not all reports are available for all companies. Specifically newly formed or dormant companies may not have analysed accounts and so a credit score may not be available

Companies House Document Scans

Companies House have embarked on digitising and making available all documents submitted to them as part of the administrative functions of a legally formed company. Whether it be the initial company formation documents, a change of company name, a new appointment of a director, the filing of mortgage charge details, or annual accounts or annual returns, the data they have available currently goes back to around 1995 / 1996, giving over 10 years worth of documents available online. We can provide access to this data, allowing you to review the list of available documents for many different companies before making your purchase.

All documents are available at £5.99+VAT and are scanned originals of the documents filed to Companies House by the submitter of the document. They may additionally have a Companies House stamp on the document to confirm receipt or other processing marks and so cannot, for example be used to replace an original lost company incorporation certificate as the words "FILE COPY" often appear across the certificate. The most common documents requested are Annual Accounts, Annual Returns and mortgage charges.