What our Morocco company report includes
Our Morocco reports draw on sources including the OMPIC commercial register, the Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI) and local court filings; fees may apply for certain records. The information returned from any one source reflects what the company has filed and what is publicly accessible when the search is run. Reports for free zone entities also cover the relevant zone authority. We can translate from Arabic and French into clear English.
Identity & registration
- ✓ Registre de Commerce (RC) number and ICE
- ✓ Raison sociale and trading names
- ✓ Legal form (SARL, SA, SAS, succursale)
- ✓ Date of incorporation and registered office
- ✓ Free zone status (CFC, Tanger Med, Kenitra) (case-specific)
People & ownership
- ✓ Gérant or directoire and conseil de surveillance
- ✓ Associés or shareholders
- ✓ Share capital (capital social) and structure
- ✓ Moroccan and foreign ownership
- ✓ Group structure (where disclosed)
Financial & trading
- ✓ Filed accounts (bilan and CPC) in MAD
- ✓ Activity codes and authorised scope
- ✓ Import/export and customs registration (case-specific)
- ✓ Risk indicator and calculated credit limit
Risk & public records
- ✓ Court judgements (tribunal de commerce)
- ✓ CNSS social charges compliance (case-specific)
- ✓ Tax compliance and contentieux fiscal (case-specific)
Note on Moroccan data: Moroccan filings are in Arabic and French and use the European-style bilan and CPC accounting structure.
Why verify a Moroccan company?
Morocco has become a serious manufacturing hub for European buyers, particularly in automotive components, aerospace parts, textiles and agri-food. For European procurement teams, the formal sector (branded factories within the Tanger Med zone, the Kenitra automotive zone, Casablanca Finance City) is generally reliable. The verification issues sit further down the supply chain, in the smaller SARLs and intermediary trading companies that often handle export logistics, where filed records are thinner and trading patterns less predictable.
The most common patterns we can see are around free zone status and what a company is actually permitted to sell. Free zone entities benefit from preferential tax and customs treatment but face restrictions on selling into the Moroccan domestic market. A buyer believing they are dealing with a domestic operator may in fact be contracting with a zone entity restricted to export, or, less commonly, a domestic SARL claiming free zone benefits it does not have. Our reports can confirm the actual status.
Currency and payment practice are also worth understanding. The Moroccan dirham is partially convertible with foreign-exchange controls administered by the Office des Changes, which affects how Moroccan companies invoice and receive in foreign currency. Companies with strong export records typically have established conventions in place; companies without those conventions face practical delays in cross-border payment flows.
For supplier qualification, distribution agreements, joint ventures and major trade credit in Morocco, an investigated report is the standard tool, particularly where the contracting party is below the multinational tier and not covered by international rating agencies.