SPARK (Russian acronym for the System of Professional Analysis of Markets and Companies).

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SPARK (Russian acronym for the System of Professional Analysis of Markets and Companies). SPARK web-site - www.spark.interfax.ru/en2/index.aspx SPARK covers 12 million Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh entities and has tools to analyze, compare, link and benchmark companies. The database accumulates information from all possible official sources thus providing clients with the information which they need about other market players as well as potential customers and business partners. This information is invaluable in assisting them to build a successful business in Russia and the CIS. Company profile structure: * Company contact information; information about management, owners, corporate structure, securities issues; * Statistics and financial statements adapted for fundamental analysis; * Description of business, development plans, milestones, court rulings and liabilities; * Latest news, news archive search. SPARK is a unique database tool providing a comparative analysis of data on all legal entities: * Assess risks * Verify business partners * Find new customers * Analyze competitors * Search for suppliers * Recover debts * Set lending terms * Study markets SPARK enables comparative analysis of data on companies, markets, industries and regions as well as ranking by more than 1000 business and financial indicators. SPARK set of Interfax IT solutions is a unique analytical tool permitting comparative analysis of information on companies through the entire database. The database can rank companies by various financial indicators, disclose links between companies through their founders and shareholders, enable a search for the manufacturers, exporters and importers of a commodity, and select companies by region or industry. Interfax-D&B Provides structured information about 145 million companies worldwide The Interfax Group and Dun & Bradstreet formed a Russia-based joint venture (Interfax-D& in 2008, which specializes in providing business information on companies all over the world, as well as in providing credit risk assessment and marketing services. Dun & Bradstreet has been providing business information services for more than 165 years and is the world's best known source of business information. Interfax - D&B is a member of D&B World Wide Network, which guarantees its access to a unique global database, covering more than 145 million businesses, operating in different countries. Interfax - D&B provides its international clients with the information from SPARK - the largest database of corporate information in Russia and CIS, created by Interfax In Russia and CIS the company offers information on foreign businesses, develops services, using D&B's advanced solutions in the sphere of risk assessment and marketing. A standard business-report includes registration data, principals' antecedents, information about parent and subsidiary companies, basic financial strength indicators, financial stress rating, credit risk indicators. Provides structured information about 145 million companies worldwide D&B SCAN web-site http://www.dnb.ru/ (only in Russian language) Company disclosure system http://www.e-disclosure.ru/ Interfax is the Federal Financial Market Service's agency authorized to disclose regulatory news of public companies. Reports published on the newswire of the information disclosure system reach Interfax subscribers, all traders of leading Russian exchanges MICEX and RTS. They are disseminated via Bloomberg, trading systems of Internet brokers and are generally accessible at the site http://www.e-disclosure.ru/ (only in Russian language). Over 15,000 Russian companies have joined the information disclosure system set up by Interfax. More than 80% of all issuers required to disclose regulatory news prefer to do so via Interfax. Interfax is also one of the recognized leading providers of Investor Relations (IR) services, and disseminates press-releases abroad under contract with Business Wire. SCAN A new search database for information analysis and media monitoring The SCAN (System for Comprehensive Analysis of News) search-and-analysis system provides access to the electronic databases of Russian media organizations. The system was designed by Interfax and uses hi-tech tools to search, monitor, and analyze textual information. * SCAN is the solution for corporations, banks and PR-professionals to analyze the media environment. * SCAN enables customers to make searches, graphical analysis, compile daily monitoring, monitor selected topics or companies * SCAN has the best choice of sources for companies and banks and is the only database containing Interfax information products in Russian and the archives of the agency's reports since 1989 SCAN web-site -www.scan-interfax.ru (only in Russian language) EFiR Information Service Interfax Group also offers clients access to archives of quotations on leading Russian exchanges through the information system EFiR. See details on the Market Data page and on the EFiR web-site - www.ideal.ru (only in russian language). SOURCE: http://www.interfax.com/txt.asp?rbr=8