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Local companies in UK research

by MiroGaborik
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Hey all,

I'm desperately looking for most effective ways to get trustworthy free or paid business information on all active companies of certain industries located in certain regions of the UK (important).

Any suggestions on how I can do this via the web myself (any decent web directories, service aggregators, yellow-pages, local institutions I could mail to to get info, etc.)?

Thx all in advance!
#companies #local #research
  • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
    https://companycheck.co.uk/

    You'll have to feed the company names into it
    to get a background check on the health/risk
    profile on them.

    Is this what you want?

    Best,
    Doctor E. Vile
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    • Profile picture of the author MiroGaborik
      Originally Posted by ewenmack View Post

      https://companycheck.co.uk/

      You'll have to feed the company names into it
      to get a background check on the health/risk
      profile on them.

      Is this what you want?

      Best,
      Doctor E. Vile
      Well first of all I'm looking for the best ways/sources to get info on UK companies that a) are active atm b) operate in certain industries c) have offices in certain regions of the UK.

      But what you provided would also be really useful, thank you very much.
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      • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
        Originally Posted by MiroGaborik View Post

        are active atm b) have offices in certain regions of the UK.
        What does atm mean to you?

        Here in NZ, it stands for
        automatic teller machine.

        Are you wanting them to have more than one office?

        Best,
        Doctor E. Vile
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        • Profile picture of the author MiroGaborik
          What does atm mean to you?
          "at the moment"
          Are you wanting them to have more than one office?
          No, what I need is an active company that operates in certain industry and has at least one office is certain region or city. And I'm looking for any method of effectively gathering the info about such companies that is available in the UK web. As I'm not a UK citizen myself and have never used the UK web before, so far the only way that comes to my mind is googlin', but it takes buttloads of time. Can't believe there's no other solution.
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          • Profile picture of the author Recruitment Nick
            Originally Posted by MiroGaborik View Post

            "at the moment"

            No, what I need is an active company that operates in certain industry and has at least one office is certain region or city. And I'm looking for any method of effectively gathering the info about such companies that is available in the UK web. As I'm not a UK citizen myself and have never used the UK web before, so far the only way that comes to my mind is googlin', but it takes buttloads of time. Can't believe there's no other solution.
            I don't know how in depth you need to go, I don't believe you will be able to find all of them, but there's a few useful places

            Yell.com - the online yellow pages
            Freeindex.co.uk - a decent UK directory

            Both allow filters by industry, Yell also by location (and I think the search function in Freeindex does, but won't swear to it, I mostly use it for niche idea generation)

            Depending on the industry there are certain "bodies" that could be of use, such as the gas safe register for gas engineers, NICEIC for electricians

            Outside of those the main tool I would use (and I use a lot) is Linkedin, which allows you to search by industry (not always accurate) or keyword, plus can use locations or radius searches from postcodes
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  • Profile picture of the author Kherk Roldan
    try djsresearch. co . uk

    my previous clients also using their service.
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    • Profile picture of the author MiroGaborik
      Thank you all for your suggestions, really helpful indeed.
      Depending on the industry there are certain "bodies" that could be of use, such as the gas safe register for gas engineers, NICEIC for electricians
      Maybe you could give me an idea of any UK government (any other) websites where I could look up the most serious industry "bodies" and organizations? Like I mean, there should be some lists of them or something...
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