Suppose you have to deal with a legal entity that is registered in the Russian Federation. But you only know its name and you don't have the money to use paid services or order professional competitive intelligence.
What can you learn about a company on the Internet for free, instantly and legally?
1. General information from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities
What can be found: date of establishment of the company, address of registration, full name of the founders and general director, to which department of the Federal Tax Service and the Pension Fund the company is attached, types of activity, history of changes to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (changes in the charter, appointments of general directors, etc.).
you can search for firms and individual entrepreneurs both by PSRN / TIN and by name / full name. Please note that to get all the data you need to download the PDF from the link. In addition to the first paragraph of the article, be sure to apply the second.
2. Have documents been submitted to change information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities?
What can be found: information about legal entities that are in the process of registration / making changes to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
In short: we check if any info from the database mentioned in paragraph `1 will change in the near future.
Usage comments: similar to the previous paragraph.
3. Is the legal address secure?
What can be checked: whether the company address is used for mass registration of legal entities.
4. Court cases in which the name of the company is mentioned
What can be found: a sea of interesting details: tax evasion, wage arrears, safety violations at work, etc. The item must be completed before the interview.
Usage comments: in order not to waste time looking through the same type of cases and quickly find something really interesting, go to the "categories" tab.
Analogues:
5. Debts to bailiffs
What can be found: whether the company has overdue payments to the FIU, unpaid taxes or debts to employees / partners that are already being beaten out with the help of bailiffs.
Usage comments: for the search, it is better to use not the name, but the OGRN, which can be found in paragraph 1. It also makes sense to break through the general director for his debts as an individual.
6. Is the firm bankrupt?
What can be found: messages about various stages of the bankruptcy procedure of a given company (if any): the results of meetings of creditors, the results of tenders, etc.
Usage comments: for search, it is better to use the OGRN, which can be found in the first paragraph.
7. Mortgaged property of the company
What can be found: dates of birth, passport numbers, TIN, e-mail addresses, vehicle VIN numbers.
Usage comments: open notification texts by links. They are the most interesting.
P.S. Sidorov Ivan Sidorovich apparently lives in a slightly distorted reality, where he does business with Petrov Ivan Petrovich from Romashka LLC :-)
8. Does the company participate in public procurement?
What can be found: what and in what volume the company supplied for state institutions.
9. Does the firm fulfill its obligations to partners?
What can be checked: whether the legal entity is included in the register of unscrupulous suppliers.
10. Are the firm's licenses valid?
What can be checked: whether the licenses listed on the company's website are valid.
Usage comments: for example, three registries are given, but there are more.
11. Contacts from the "yellow pages"
What can be found: website, phone number, actual address.
12. How much are the company's shares worth?
What can be found: dynamics of the value of the company's shares in recent years.
Usage comments: Type in Google the name of the company + “shared price”.
13. Does the firm have patents?
What can be found: information about inventions that were made by the company or bought by it.
Usage comments: If there are no patents in the database, then this does not guarantee their absence at all.
14. Information about the company's website
