D&B Report Guide - Kazakhstan

Facts and figures:

Country Kazakhstan
International Dialling Code 7
Legal Currencies Tenge
Population 16,700,000
Capital Astana
Language Kazak, Russian
Time GMT -1
Government Republic

D&B Business Information Report content:

D&B Rating Yes Credit Appraisal n/a
Public Data Yes Financial Ratios Yes
D&B Payment Score n/a    

Legal forms in Kazakhstan:

Legal Form Legal Form (local)
Proprietorship Chastniy Predprinimatel
General Partnership Polnoe Tovarishestvo
Comandite Partnership Commanditnoe Tovarishestvo
Limited Liability Co Tovarishestvo s ogranichennoy otvetstvennostyu
Private Joint Stock Co Zakrytoe Asktsionernoe Obshestvo
Public Joint Stock Co Otkrytoe Aktsionernoe Obshestvo
 Co-operative Proizvodstvenniy kooperativ
State Concern Gosudarstvennoe predpriyatie

 

  Name
Address
Principals		 Reg Date
Number
Start Date		 Capital
(minimum)		 Ownership
(minimum number)
Proprietorship Yes Yes None 1
General Partnership Yes Yes 20,575 2
Comandite Partnership Yes Yes 41,150 2
Limited Liability Co Yes Yes 82,300 1
Private Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 82,300 2
Public Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 4,115,000 2
 Co-operative Yes Yes None 5
State Concern Yes Yes 8,230,000 1

'None'  means that there is no minimum capital requirement for these types of companies.

Legal filing requirements:

It is not compulsory for Sole Proprietorships to prepare formal financial statements.

For all types of partnerships, Private Joint Stock companies and Cooperatives, financial statements are generally only available if the company wishes to disclose them.

Financial statements are generally available if the company is a Public Joint Stock company. Year end financial statements are available from August 1st of the current year from the State Statistics Committee.

D&B Business Information Report - data sources and data elements:

Here is a breakdown of information available in Kazakhstan and where this information is obtained from.

Trade Registrar's Office and Trade Registry Directory:

  • registration data (registration number, date of registration, founders, place of registration)
  • banker's details

Direct telephone interview:
  • activity/market territory
  • client type & number
  • premises/branches/divisions/employees
  • affiliations
  • principals' antecedents
  • expansion plans
  • balance sheets/profit & loss/projected sales

Business publications and news clippings:
  • news articles concerning the subject company and its shareholders
  • public courts
  • protested bills
  • bankruptcies
  • legal suits
  • charges

All publicly available data is collected and verified from each of the above data sources by our locally positioned D&B Correspondent for each Business Information Report request received.

Speed of service: 4 working days

Should you require any further information or have any questions, please contact your local Customer Service Centre.

Business Information Report enquiries which are placed with D&B's Emerging Markets Centre should always contain the below details. Unfortunately, enquiries without the below information have a much higher chance of being returned as an Unable To Locate Report. This is simply due to the fact that data sources in the Emerging Markets are not as sophisticated as those in Western Europe.

  • Full Company Name
  • Full Head Quarters Address (street, town, country)
  • Telephone Number
  • Fax Number

Any additional information such as a contact name or line of business would also help to locate the subject of your enquiry.