SmartLinx Business Report

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Summary

This subsection contains identifying business information and industry information.

The identifying information is typically the most current and most complete information for a business and includes the business name, the LexID^® Business number, the TIN (taxpayer identification number), the address, the phone number, the primary URL, the business status (Active, Inactive, or Defunct), the established date, and the business activity.

If the data indicates that a business has ceased to operate, then a Defunct flag is displayed. When LexisNexis Risk Solutions has no data indicating that the business is defunct, but has not received any updated records in 24 months or longer, the business is flagged as Inactive.

The industry information includes the parent company, the SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code, the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code, the annual revenue, and the total number of employees.

SmartLinx Business Insights

This subsection highlights the risk that is associated with the business in the following categories: business evidence and business risk. Graphs indicate the overall risk level that is calculated for each category based on the risk indicators that are returned for the category.

This subsection is available only if the SmartLinx Business Insights feature is enabled on your account.

For a list of potential business evidence indicators, see Business Evidence Indicators for SmartLinx Business Report.

For a list of potential business risk indicators, see Business Risk Indicators for SmartLinx Business Report

At a Glance

This subsection highlights key aspects of the report, including counts for the following information:

• Current real property holdings
• Current personal properties
• Secured assets reported using UCC (uniform commercial code) records
• A count of current executives

The At a Glance section also indicates the presence of records in which the business is a debtor in an active UCC, bankruptcies, judgments or liens, and notices of default and foreclosed real properties.

Name Variations

This subsection provides the business's name variations.

TINs

This subsection provides a list of taxpayer identification numbers and the names with which they are associated.

URLs

This subsection contains the company's website addresses.

Incorporation/SOS

This subsection contains a summarized view of the SOS (Secretary of State) and other business registrations that are associated with the business. The information includes the name under which the business was registered, the filing type, the status of the business, the filing date, the filing number, and the state in which the business was registered.

SOS status values have been normalized; however, if the filing status could not be determined, N/A is displayed.

The following actions are available:

• Select the state to filter the results by state.
• Click Show All Details or Hide All Details to view or hide the details of the filings.
• Select Show Active to view only active registrations.
• Click Sources in the Action column to see the source information.

Operating Locations

This subsection contains a list of addresses that are associated with the business. Operating locations include the address, the metropolitan area or county, and the best phone number for the location. When an address matches a property record, Real Property Match is displayed.

The following actions are available:

• Select the state to filter the results by state.
• Click Real Property Match to go to the Real Property section of the report.
• Click Property History Report to view the Property History Report for the location.
• Click Location Report to view the Location Report for the location.
• Click Sources in the Action column to view the source information.

Sales | Parent Company | Industry Information | Licenses

These subsections contain information that pertains to the company’s annual sales, parent company, industry, and license information. Industry information may contain SIC codes, NAICS codes, or a narrative description of the business’s industry or business activities.

The information includes the filing type, the business's role (creditor or debtor), the amount, the file date, the file number, and the jurisdiction.

To filter the content, select or clear the Show Debtor and Show Creditor check boxes.

The report includes filings in which the business is the debtor, as well as filings in which the business is a creditor or a secured party.

To filter the content, select or clear the Show Debtor and Show Creditor check boxes.

Properties are displayed with the most recent property that is associated with the business first. Properties that the data indicate are still owned by the business are displayed first with a current status. Properties that the business no longer owns are listed below current properties.

To hide previous properties, clear the Show Prior check box.

To filter the content, use the Show Prior, MVR, Watercraft, and Aircraft options above the table.

This area of the report is divided into the following subsections:

Executives: Current

This subsection contains the names of people who have been associated with the business in the past 24 months. To be included in this list, these people must have held an operational or managerial title.

The executives are listed in alphabetical order by last name along with their titles and the dates when they held the title. The following actions may be available for each name and are listed beside the names:

• Person Report provides you with a SmartLinx Person Report. See SmartLinx Person Report.
• Search for [name] indicates that LexisNexis Risk Solutions was unable to find a single LexID number for the executive. Click the link to run a Find a Person search that displays a list of candidates. See Find a Person Search.
• The Associated with Other Companies icon () indicates that the executive is associated with companies other than the business that is in the report.
• The Civil Legal Event icon () indicates that the executive is associated with bankruptcies, judgments, liens, foreclosures, or notices of default on file.
• The Deceased icon () indicates that the person is an executive with a deceased record.

Executives: Prior

This subsection contains persons with operational or managerial titles who have been associated with the business; however, these individuals have not been associated with the business in the previous 24 months.

Registered Agents

This subsection displays registered agents as reported by the SOS and other business registration filings. This subsection may contain both the names of people and businesses.

Possible Employees

This subsection contains people who are associated with the business who have non-operational or managerial titles. This subsection contains both recently-associated persons (current), as well as people previously-associated with the business more than 24 months in the past (prior).

Person Associates

This subsection contains people who co-appear in a source document with the business, but cannot be determined to be possible employees or executives. For example, this person might be someone who has sold a piece of real property to a business.

Possible Connected Businesses

This subsection contains businesses that may be closely related to the business that is in the report, but do not meet the rigorous precision requirements that are required by LexisNexis Risk Solutions to join with the business.

Companies with similar names and similar addresses may appear in this subsection. Companies that are separate legal entities, but share a connection (for example, a common owner) to the business that is in the report may also appear.

Business Associates

This subsection contains business entities that co-appear in a record with the business that is in the report, but for which no other association has been found.

Click a link to view the source records.