Business information

Product and trade information

A wide range of trade directories covering local, national and international companies is available at the Business Information Point at the Central Resources Library. These include information about suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of a range of products and services.

Key resources include:

Kelly’s Industrial Directory
This directory is divided into a classified index and an A - Z sequence of company names. In the classified section full telecom details are given for over 90,000 UK manufacturing and industrial service companies. In the company information section companies are listed alphabetically with address, telecommunications details and trade description.

Key British Enterprises(KBE)
Published by Dun and Bradstreet as a four volume directory. The directory holds details of the UKs top 50,000 actively trading businesses.

Kompass (Western Europe)
Kompass is available paper copy or on CD-ROM. The UK directory contains details of over 44,000 different products and services offered by industrial companies. The CD-ROM gives access to company records for Western Europe via a variety of selection criteria, which can be manipulated to produce tailor-made company mailing lists. Lists can be displayed on screen, printed out or saved to disc.

Telephone Directories
The Business Information Point has a complete set of UK residential and yellow Pages telephone directories.