Company & industry information

Use this website and its Service Centre as your starting point to locate information about companies and individuals.
- Search the National Names Index to find basic details about current and former companies, business names and other organisations.
- Search the Enforceable Undertakings Register for undertakings that have been accepted by ASIC.
* Non-public companies are not required to present annual reports. Annual returns lodged by small non-public companies may not have financial information.

Search this website for Australian company and government bodies business records such as Federal Airports Corporation, Defence Housing Authority and Australian Industry Development Corporation.
You are not able to search National Archives' whole collections online so if you cannot locate the records you want, please contact the National Reference Service for assistance.

This collection consists of packets of documents relating to companies incorporated in New South Wales. Each packet contains information required for submission under the various Companies Acts; memorandum and articles of association; annual list and summary of shareholders; registered address of company; agreements; mortgages and details of liquidation.

Search this index to find owners of firms Registered under the Firms Act, 1902. It records Name of Firm, Nature of Business, Place of Business, Date of Registration, Persons Carrying on Business, Additional People in the Business, Packet Number and Page Number for the period 1903 to 1922.
Please note: this is an index of the register entries only and that packet numbers of firms recorded in these registers have not survived. Therefore only the name of individuals operating the firm and the name of the firm may be located.

There are 28,800+ entries in this index.

There are 23108 entries in this index.

Tips in finding digitised insolvency files at the State Archives & Records.

- A list with names of Australian organisations, their operating dates, an overview of the records held including date range, and the quantity, and the type of records held in their collection.
- Australian company records included in the collection are minutes and correspondence, registers of employees, staff lists, wage books, financial and legal papers, share records and records of subsidiaries as well as records of a company's Australian and overseas offices.
- Digitised collection of a company, e.g. Tooth and Company hotels

- A list with names of the deposits, an overview of the records held including date range, the quantity held, and the type of records in their collection.

This collection covers over 150 years of Victorian history, including records of:
- wholesalers and retailers
- factories and foundries
- solicitors and architects
- some of Australia's largest mining companies in Victoria.

Use this website to find company records of Australian businesses (including pastoral stations) and business people in:
- recognised collecting archives, such as the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
- recognised in-house archives of companies, such as the Westpac Historical Services, Westpac Banking Corporation
- published resources, such as books and biographies

Contents on this website are published by Archive Research Consultancy and have not been updated since 2006.
There could be more business records in the State Library collection as materials are continuously added to our collection.
Go to our catalogue and search by company name or key personnel of a company, e.g. Fairfax.
Please note that some records are restricted.