Market intelligence is drawn from a wide range of sources, including the following:

Free / low fee company profile / news sources

Australian companies

• Businessspectator.com.au
• Brrmedia.com.au
• Google.com/finance
• Reuters.com
• Yahoo.com (au.finance.yahoo.com)

Helpful free to low cost sites for an overview on Australian companies.

International sources:

• Businessprofiles.com
• Privco.com

Market research

• IBISWorld.com.au
  Australian company & industry research reports.  Pay by credit card or subscription.
• Alacrastore.com
  Over 100 million reports, company snapshots and market profiles from 120+ premium business information databases.  Pay by credit card.
• Euromonitor International
  Strategy research for consumer markets.  Pay by credit card or subscription.

Good sources for off the shelf market research, company & industry reports.

Commercial subscriptions

• Factiva
  Part of the Dow Jones stable.  Includes thousands of curated news and information sources from nearly 200 countries.
  From 2014 – subscription only.
• LexisNexis
  Nexis news service offers access to 1,000+ sources, vetted by LexisNexis editors as authoritative and industry relevant. Subscription only.
• ProQuest Dialog
  Wide range of industry sources, including ProQuest Newsstand with over 1300 newspapers with a 30 year archive.
  Subscription with pay per download pricing.
• Company360.com.au
  Coverage of over 50,000 Australian private and public companies.  Useful source for company profiles, financial reports, ownership structure, ratio analysis, brief director & executive profiles & known professional services relationships.
  Subscription only.
• Avention.com
  Aggregator of company and executive profile information.  Subscription only.  Formerly known as onesource.com .
• Linkedin Premium Personal Plus subscription
  Anonymous searching, & see who has viewed your profile.  $8 per month.

 The commercial subscription sources offer advanced searching options for pinpoint searching on leading industry sources.

Company registries & stock exchanges

Australia:
Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)

• Requirements for lodging financial reports with ASIC
• Operating & financial review – ASIC Regulatory guide 2013
• Searching ASIC registers of corporate filings

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

International:

• International list of company registries
• International list of stock exchanges

Industry groups

• Government & business directory (business.gov.au)
• Industry groups (primary industry focus)
• Industry groups and associations (journoz.com)

Library guides to market intelligence resources

• State Library of Victoria – business guide
• University of Melbourne library subject guide – company & industry research
• Bizologie.com

Some helpful lists of resources & library guides compiled by librarians working in business schools, corporate libraries or large public libraries.

Recommended reading:

Financial Times / Special Libraries Association report (2013)
The evolving value of information management and And Five Essential Attributes of the Modern Information Professional.

Bensoussan & Fleisher, Analysis without paralysis, 2nd ed, (2013)