How to check a supplier before you sign
Check the supplier's registration, owners, charges over its assets, court matters and press. Then ask it for recent accounts and two customer references.
- Find the supplier on the register where it was formed: still registered, under the name and number on the contract.
- Find who stands behind it: its owners and directors, and their other companies.
- Search for charges and liens registered over its assets.
- Search the courts for cases by or against it and its people.
- Read what the press has reported about it in the last few years.
What to ask the supplier for: recent accounts, two customer references, proof of insurance, and who may sign for it.
Or send the company's name and city to LightRay. In about 12 minutes: who owns it, who runs it, what it has filed, any court matters and its press. First three free.