AMCHO Computer Services Ltd, Tamar Way, Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9DH, England.

UK Company Information Sources

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Also do a broadband - mobile - phone - insurance switching service.

We use Madasafish Broadband - sign up via this link for a £10.00 discount.

Office Supplies:

You can buy your office supplies on line, the following open up in a new window to allow you to check prices:
Viking Direct is the UK’s largest office supplies retailer to small and mid-sized businesses, with over 15,000 office products at guaranteed lowest price, exclusive website offers and deals, and with an end-of-line clearance centre.
Staples Office Supplies
Neat Ideas
The Ink Factory sells ink cartridges and inkjet refill kits for most makes of printer. FREE UK delivery & 100% satisfaction guarantee.

UK call rates Check with BT to see exactly how much that phone call will cost

Official dataprotection website
If you receive an official looking invoice for registering under the UK dataprotection act you can bin it - see the site above for the official story (note the gov.uk at the end of the url tells you that it is an official uk government website).

www.the-technology-channel.com
communications industry portal - includes a facility to compare telecoms charges

You can look up any UK limited company at Companies House. They also have a register of Disqualified Directors.

If you want to look up a UK phone number you can do it on line just enter the name and area of the person or business whose phone number you want at BT UK Directory Enquiries
Another similar service can be found at www.192.com
UK Info Disk, brought to you by 192.com, offers a range of renowned CD ROM products derived from the Electoral Roll and BT's directory enquiry database which include value-added business data as well as maps and route finder information. A range of European disks are also available. Prices start at £37.45 for the 'UK Info Disk'.
From August 2003 the UK directory enquiries numbers are changing from 192 to 118 500 for UK and 118 505 for overseas.

If you need to look up a UK postcode the Royal mail provide a handy tool that will allow you to find the postcode if you have the address or just part of the address. If you know the postcode then you can look up the full address.
Royal Mail


Enter a postcode or town

www.UpYourStreet.com will show you information about any postcode in the uk: houseprices, quality of the schools, unemployment levels. The information is displayed in the form of graphs, and allows you to compare two different postcodes, or a selected postcode against the UK national average. Worth a visit.

To see a map of the area around any postcode or uk placename check out the mapping website at uk.multimap.com When you get there just enter your own postcode and see your local area.

Check the availability of a domain in both the .UK and .COM name space on our Domain Check Page. Then register your domain at our domain registration page.

If you are a BT customer you can now change your friends and family numbers online at The BT customer Services Web Site.

www.rmonline.com provides info on all uk companies and trade marks. Prices start at £6 for a report on an individual director and £16 for a Online Company Search Report.
www.creditreports.co.uk Credit Reports is a UK credit information agency and provides credit reports on any UK business or person. You can order a credit report on-line for £15.00 plus VAT.
Dun & Bradstreet at www.dunandbrad.co.uk have a free search facility where you can check details on UK companies but the info seemed a bit out of date - but as a free service who's complaining?

www.oftel.gov.uk
OFTEL is the regulator and watchdog for the UK telecoms industry. Broadcast transmission is also part of OFTEL’s remit. Our aim is for customers to get the best possible deal in terms of quality, choice and value for money. OFTEL is a government department but independent of ministerial control. It is headed by the Director General of Telecommunications, who is appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

The following was extracted from Free Pint, a free email newletter.
For details about subscribing, contributing or advertising see http://www.freepint.co.uk/ or call +44 (0)171 681 1653

Within the UK, you can check that a company exists at the ICC site.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said elsewhere, as in so many other countries either there is no requirement for all companies to file accounts, or even if there is, they are not held centrally.

However in the US all documents filed by listed companies are available from the EDGAR site. For information on smaller companies try the Dun & Bradstreet GlobalSeek site.

http://www.icc.co.uk - ICC

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar - EDGAR

http://www.dbeuro.com/UK/globseek.htm - Dun & Bradstreet's GlobalSeek

Many companies, and in particular quoted companies, are now putting their Reports & Accounts online, which in time will lead to new ways for companies to enfranchise their shareholders. There are a range of companies building links to this information. For UK PLCs try the UK Equities Direct service from Hemmington Scott, which contains financial information on all quoted UK companies. For US companies try the Annual Report Gallery site.

http://www.hemscott.co.uk/EQUITIES/INDEX.HTM

http://www.reportgallery.com/

Use the power of the internet to calculate the ideal selling price of any product or service. Go to the Make Your Price Sell website and get the html code for your pricing survey. Put the code on your website. Wait for your visitors to respond, and very soon you will be able to see the graphs that will tell you your ideal selling price. Priced Dynamically (buy at the current market price or submit a lower bid if the current price is too high) and with an unconditional money-back guarantee if you decide the results are not as good as you expected.

AMCHO Computer Services Ltd. Little Honeycombe, Tamar Way, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England, PL18 9DH
Phone 0871 871 0035
Company Directors: Mike Choroszewski, Katy Choroszewska
Contact us: E-mail webmaster@amcho.com or fill in our feedback form

Page http://www.amcho.com/ukcoinfo.htm March 2003