IHS Markit Company Name-style Guide & Searching Guide

IHS Markit has adopted a Style Guide for recording company names. This has been adopted to ensure consistency in searching the database and in viewing the results, and to ensure that the characters used in names are compatible with software programs. The main rules that have been adopted in recording company names are as follows:

• Character Set – only English characters are utilised
• Punctuation – no punctuation marks are utilised with the exception of: apostrophe, ampersand (&) to replace the word “and”, hyphen, single speech marks.
• Abbreviations – are standardised
• Acronyms – are after the company name
• Initials – before company names are without spaces (AB Shipping); if it is the name of an individual there is a space between initials (A N Another)

Company Name Search Guide

As the company name-style recorded by IHS Markit may not be the exact name-style recorded on the company registration documents, users are advised to search for companies using the “contains” option and key words or acronym from the name.