Each additional search term is the same as saying - and (eg entering "Broken" in the company name field and NSW in the state field will return all companies who have "Broken" in their company name and are in the state of New South Wales)

Most fields are self explanatory - though you may like to note the special features of each field:

Company name field

Enter Company names as exactly as you can. Use whole words only - try to avoid single letters or numbers. If your search is not successful, try again with or without the spaces or punctuation.

(eg A E Smith & Son Pty Ltd - enter "Smith Son"  with the space. This is the same as saying, give me every company that contains the word Smith and the word Son in its name. Entering the A or E will be unsuccessful because single letters are not indexed in the database)

You can enter any part of a company name, and the record will be found if that text string appears in:

- Any part of the company name
- Any part of its trading as name
- Any part of its common name
- Any part of the former name

You can use wildcards (*) to find any part of a word in a company name.

Exchanges and Boards

Leave the default to ON to select companies listed on both the Australian or New Zealand Stock Exchanges and companies listed on the Industrial and Mining Boards of each Stock Exchange.
Click in a box to deselect as required.

State drop box

Simply pick the states that you wish to constrain your search within.

ASX Code

This is the code with has been assigned by The Stock Exchange. Enter the code (search is not case sensitive).

SIC codes

SIC Codes can be entered as follows:

a single code                                   - 8731
multiple codes, separated by or     - 8243 or 8244 or 8249
Multiple codes, separated by and   - 8243 and 8244 and 8249
part of a code                                  - 82 (eg 5 for retailers, 54 for food retailing)
The leading 0 for codes
 that begin with 0                             01 (for agriculture)
a range of codes, separated by -     8731-8999
greater than                                     >8731
less than                                         <5999

To quickly select a range of codes or to find a code you are looking for, try the SIC lookup field

Free text searches

A free text search will return all records that contain the text string searched on. You can use:

- a single word, a string of words or any part of a word. (eg manuf*)
Remember that;
searches are not case sensitive,  take punctuation into account.
- Two words separated by and will find the occurrence of all records that contain both words (eg coal and gold).
- Two words separated by or will find the occurrence of all records which have either word (eg coal or gold).
- Two words separated by not will find all records containing the first word and not the second (scissors not knives).