kompany Empowers Professionals with Easy Access to InternationalBusiness Background Information
Starting today, UK companies can easily find essential business background information about their potential partners at https://www.kompany.co.uk. The service is designed especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business professionals, providing them with fresh and instant company information about any type of business in the UK. The public availability of the UK site marks the first stage of a European rollout, enhancing the online search for companies across the continent. kompany´s mission is to identify, structure and make international business background information accessible.
Aggregating content from reliable sources
kompany combines official government data from Companies House with high-quality information provided by third parties to offer reliable company profiles on any business in the UK. The core product, the kReport, features basic data and credit rating information of multiple credit rating agencies. The product portfolio will also include official corporate register extracts, company checks, full credit reports, manager profiles and other services.
"kompany empowers professionals with easy access to international business background information" Russell E. Perry, one of the founders and Co-CEO, emphasises the credo. "The information we provide is reliable, affordable and instantly accessible via our user-friendly online interface."
Increasing international trade and business relations boost demand
Key asset to kompany´s service is the integration of international company information. The UK is the starting point of the European launch followed by a step-by-step international rollout. While it is already possible to retrieve basic information about companies from more than 20 European countries, credit rating information on German businesses will be added to kompany´s content portfolio within the next months. The continued European and US rollout is scheduled for early 2013.
"There is a huge amount of data out there, but kompany is among the first to gather, structure and process it so it can actually be found and accessed by professional consumers everywhere. With increasing international trade and business relationships, we are experiencing a rising demand for our service" says Bernhard Hoetzl, kompany Co-CEO. "For our content partners we create an alternative sales channel with a large international upside potential."
Serving SMEs and professionals with easy and affordable access
With a focus on SMEs as well as independent business professionals and entrepreneurs, kompany serves a big and yet unexploited European market: Approximately 18 million of all EU-27 companies are small businesses with less than ten employees. 12 percent of all purchases are conducted cross-border, seven out of ten firms trade within the EU-27, and up to 23 percent of European SMEs export their products.
In the UK, online search for corporate business background information is a developed market, with an estimated current market size of 250 million euros (200 million pounds) and an annual market growth of approximately five percent.
About kompany
kompany was founded in February 2012 by Russell E. Perry, Bernhard Hoetzl, Peter Bainbridge-Clayton and Iris Pittl to provide easy and instant access to international business background information for SMEs and business professionals around the globe.
The start-up is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, where an experienced team of 15 industry professionals is involved in the development of the technology and business behind kompany. The founders and start-up team have been working together in several companies in Europe, Africa and the US during the past 10+ years, establishing a successful track record in the digital media space.