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Fame for company information

Fame is a database of UK and Irish company information. It holds information on 7 million companies: 2 million in
detailed format; 200,000 in summary format and 4 million which are no longer active. As well as company financials,
Fame has business and company news, peer comparison of companies, credit ratings, financial strength indicators,
directors and scanned images of original filings to Companies House. Information is available for up to 10 years.
Results can be exported for analysis.
To access Fame sign in to iCat, go to Database List and then F, where Fame is listed. Click on Fame. If requested,
choose Institutional Login. From here, choose UK Access Management Federation and select Kingston Uni-
versity from the drop-down menu. You may be taken to a Kingston University login screen. If so, use your normal
Kingston login.

Searching for a company
Select Company name in Grouped View of Search
Type in a word in the text box. You may prefer to tick Match on whole words only. Click Search and the index of
company names matching the text will appear. Tick the company required. Click OK. Click View report. In Report
format click either Standard report or Full report or Add/remove sections to display only the information required














A Standard report covers company and financial details, including profit and loss, balance sheet, financial ratios,
credit score, directors, subsidiaries and trading addresses.

A Full report covers the Standard report plus SIC trade descriptors, brand names, financial trends, stock data and
county court judgments.

To do a peer report and to download original documents
Click Peer report to compare similar companies with the same SIC code. Choose table or chart format
Click Download original documents for items submitted to Companies House














To do a peer analysis of companies







To do a list of companies in an area by number of employees







Other things to know
You can Export data as an Excel spreadsheet
If there is a question mark symbol next to any headings, further help and information is listed
Use the Help tab for Fame help and Quick tour (the latter are videos)


Do a search for a number of companies. Tick Add to my current search
Click Analysis> Peer analysis> Compare companies> New analysis
Tick options required. Next
Click Relative years> Last available year. Next
Click Options and choose format. Finish
Search by Location to pinpoint the area for which you are searching
Number of employees> Number of employees for a company. Enter figures
Tick Use estimates when the value is not available
OK
View list of companies
The information you need will now be displayed in a table. Use the scroll bar if you cannot
see all the columns