UK Business Database

[TinkyWinky]

Anyone know where to get an accurate business database of UK companies with full address and postcode information?

Not fussed with email or contact numbers - just need the accuracy first and foremost.

Needs to include retail, office and a.n.other 'businesses' locations.

I can find a few B2B database companies but ;

a. I have never heard of them

b. Their numbers of UK companies they claim vary wildly

Anyone help here?

Cheers
TW

 

[philiporchard]

Local Data Company - good for high street business data.

 

[AndyMarsden]

Probably not what you are looking for but may be worth a mention....

We have recently used the company checker API
http://companycheck.co.uk/api

and extensively used both the free and paid companies house services
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/dataProducts.shtml

 

[bonusmedia]

Dunn and Bradstreet - http://www.dnb.co.uk/

 

[TinkyWinky]

Thanks guys - a great start... i had a couple of those on the list - hadn't thought about company check actually...

Any more ideas... any one got a complete UK company / retail set?

 

[khalid]

you can download companies house info for free or use their backend api but it doesn't include telephone numbers

 

[ratboy]

Hi Tinky

I got a spam through the other day from these guys:

http://www.freshmarketinguk.com/uk-business-data---full-file-550000-records-97-p.asp

Due to the imminent retirement of two of our founders we have reached the difficult decision of closing our data provision business after a successful five years. We have decided against selling this business as we would no longer be able to monitor the quality and accuracy of the data.
We realise that the economic climate is still not what is was and would therefore like to offer our data to a minimal number of businesses at a substantially reduced rate. Resell rights are available if required.
UK Business Email Database – 550,000 records
Double opted in and contains full data fields. Including a live and valid email directly to the decision maker.
Normally priced at £1200. Use the code ‘closing’ to reduce the price to £475. Select the UK Business Data – Full File 550,000 records.
Website: www.freshmarketinguk.com
All orders must be complete by Friday 31st January when the website will go offline. This has been extended due to us not completing in time.
Please reply to this email with any queries. There is ‘live chat’ on our website (bottom right). Or call us on 0843 289 9034.
Kind regards
Fresh Marketing UK

Don't now what it is - but if its accurate seems a decent deal.