Company information and statistics

Build strong relationships to grow your business

Understanding the businesses you trade with is crucial for forming lasting, productive relationships, whether they are your customers or suppliers. Our resources provide you with access to contact information, financial details, and credit scores of all UK-registered companies. You can also create targeted marketing contact lists and gain insights into your competitors.

Company information data and research

DataGardener

An all-in-one platform for UK company intelligence, offering financial insights, growth forecasts, risk analysis and sector trends, plus onsite access to government procurement data on buyers, suppliers, contracts and compliance.

Experian-MarketIQ

Experian MarketIQ is a business intelligence and market research platform providing access to company financial data, M&A activity, risk insights, and market analysis to support business development, investment research, and strategic decision-making.

Exporters Almanac

has links to online industry directories worldwide, plus international trade organisations and business networks.

Frost & Sullivan - Research Portal

Frost & Sullivan’s Research Portal provides access to industry research reports, market intelligence, economic analysis, and strategic insights across a wide range of sectors to support business planning and market research.

Frost and Sullivan - Growth Generator

Growth Generator is Frost & Sullivan’s interactive intelligence platform, helping businesses identify growth opportunities, emerging trends, innovation strategies, and market developments through data-driven insights and analytics.

Global Data

has worldwide market research with analysis and trends, including leading company profiles, country reports, and country and market statistical data.

IBISWorld

is primarily a market research tool looking at the UK, overseas and regional markets and contains mini profiles on companies.

Statista

has profiles and financials for 15 million companies worldwide. It also provides worldwide statistics and forecasts for all consumer markets and industry sectors, demographics, economics and other statistics.

Access to the databases

To access these databases you will need an SBREC membership. A subscription membership gives you remote access to most databases, alternatively a free membership will give you access to all our databases in-person at the Centre. Check our opening times.

Additional resources

Visit our blog to read articles about starting a business. from industry professionals and successful start ups who have lots of experience to share.

Press articles are a powerful source of business information. Business Source Premier and European Newsstream contain thousands of articles that are useful for finding out about trends, information on companies, and tips and advice on practical issues such as advertising or managing staff.

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