B2B Company List Builder: by Industry, City and Country

Build a list of companies for one country, filtered by industry code and town, from the official company registers. Each row has the legal name, registry number, status, legal form, incorporation date, industry codes with labels, registered town and postcode, and the company's website where we know it, with the CMS, shop platform and company social profiles seen on that site. By default you get active companies that have a website.

It's for people who sell to or study a defined group of businesses: agencies looking for clients in one trade and town, SaaS sales teams building account lists by industry, local service firms (cleaners, IT support, accountants, fit-out) mapping their area, and researchers counting companies by sector and place.

Quick start

Paste this into the JSON tab and press Start:

{
  "country": "GB",
  "industry": "62",
  "city": "Manchester",
  "maxResults": 100
}

That returns up to 100 active software and IT companies registered in Manchester that have a website.

Ready-made inputs

Every active software company in Manchester with a website (agencies, SaaS sales):

{ "country": "GB", "industry": "62", "city": "Manchester", "maxResults": 2000 }

UK accounting and bookkeeping firms with a website (SIC codes 69201, 69202 and 69203 all start with 692):

{ "country": "GB", "industry": "692", "maxResults": 5000 }

Every active restaurant in Nantes, with or without a website (local services). NAF 56.10A is traditional restaurants and 56.10C fast food:

{ "country": "FR", "industry": "56.10", "city": "Nantes", "segment": "active" }

Hairdressers and beauty salons in Helsinki (Finland's TOL 2008 code 96021 is hairdressing):

{ "country": "FI", "industry": "9602", "city": "Helsinki", "segment": "active" }

Irish IT companies incorporated since 2024, in any status, for a market study:

{ "country": "IE", "industry": "62", "segment": "all", "incorporatedSince": "2024-01-01", "maxResults": 20000 }

A whole country's building trades over several runs. Leave onlyNew on and run it again until the status message says "That is the whole list":

{ "country": "NO", "industry": "43", "segment": "active", "maxResults": 50000, "onlyNew": true }

Inputs

• country: one ISO code (required). See the coverage table below. Any other code, for example DE, lists that country's companies with an LEI.
• industry: optional. A code or the start of one, in the country's own system. It matches any of a company's codes, so 62 finds a company whose second activity is software too. See "Industry codes" below.
• city: optional. The registered office's town as the register writes it, for example Manchester. Case and accents don't matter. It's the registered address, which for small firms is often an accountant's office or the owner's home town rather than where they trade. France writes Paris, Lyon and Marseille by arrondissement, so a plain Paris may miss most companies there.
• segment: active-with-website (the default), active, all (any status, including dissolved) or with-lei (companies with a Legal Entity Identifier, any status).
• maxResults: the most companies one run returns. 1,000 if empty, up to 2,000,000.
• onlyNew: off by default. When on, the run skips companies this account already got from the same list (same country, segment, industry and town) in an earlier run. Skipped companies are free. Use it to fetch a big list over several runs, or to schedule a monthly run that returns only the additions.
• incorporatedSince, incorporatedBefore: optional. A date (2020-01-01) or a span back from today (6 months, 2 years). Since is inclusive, before leaves the date itself out. Australia and Japan state no incorporation dates, so these filters don't work for AU or JP.

Lists come in registry id order, so the same input gives the same list each time until the next monthly rebuild. From the API you can also set "order": "newest" to get the newest incorporations first.

Industry codes

Each country uses its own classification. For the European countries and Singapore the first two digits mean the same thing, so 62 is software and IT, 56 restaurants, cafes and bars, 69 legal and accounting, 43 building trades and 96 hairdressing and personal services everywhere. The deeper digits are written differently:

Country	Classification	Software development	Restaurants
UK (GB)	SIC 2007 (5 digits)	62012 Business and domestic software development	56101 Licensed restaurants
France (FR)	NAF rév. 2 (with a dot and a letter)	62.01Z Programmation informatique	56.10A Restauration traditionnelle
Norway (NO)	SN2007, NACE-based (with a dot)	62.01	56.10
Finland (FI)	TOL 2008, NACE-based	6201	5610
Czechia (CZ)	CZ-NACE	62	56
Ireland (IE)	NACE Rev. 2	62	56
Singapore (SG)	SSIC	62	56
US (US)	SEC filers: US SIC. Connecticut: NAICS	SIC 7372, NAICS 5415	SIC 5812, NAICS 7225

Not every register gives industry codes. Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Australia, Canada and Japan, and the New York, Colorado, Oregon, Iowa, Florida and Texas registers, publish none, so an industry filter returns nothing there. Use city and segment alone for those.

Labels come in the register's language. UK labels are English and French ones are French; for the other countries the first code carries the register's own description where it gives one.

What you get

Field	What it is
name, previousName	Legal name, and the former name where the register gives one
website, websites	The best matched website, and every matched website with how it was matched
websiteMethod, websiteConfidence	How the best website was matched (stated in the register, registry number printed on the company's own site, the site's structured data, name and postcode, or Wikidata) and our confidence in it
cms, ecommerce, technologies	The CMS, shop platform and other technologies seen on the company's site, where we have read it
socials, hasBlog, profileUpdated	Company social profiles linked from its own site, whether it has a blog, and when we read the site
city, postcode, country	Registered office town and postcode
industryCodes, industryLabels, industrySystem	Industry codes, their labels, and the classification
status, active, legalForm, incorporated	The register's status, an active flag, legal form, incorporation date
registryNumber, id, scheme	The number on the register, and our id with its scheme (GB-CH-09263424)
employees, lei	Stated employees and LEI, where known
registryUrl, source, registry	The record's page on the register and which register it came from
licence, attribution	The register's licence and the credit line to keep with the data
lastUpdated	The date we last rebuilt the data from the registers

Organisations only. There are no directors, owners, shareholders, employees or other people in any row, and no email addresses or phone numbers. Sole traders and other natural persons are left out by each register's own legal forms.

Coverage

Country	Register	Industry codes
UK (GB)	Companies House	SIC 2007
France (FR)	INSEE Sirene	NAF rév. 2
Norway (NO)	Brønnøysund Register Centre	SN2007 (NACE)
Finland (FI)	Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)	TOL 2008
Czechia (CZ)	Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ)	CZ-NACE
Ireland (IE)	Companies Registration Office	NACE Rev. 2
Singapore (SG)	ACRA, via data.gov.sg	SSIC
Sweden (SE)	Bolagsverket	None
Estonia (EE)	e-Business Register (RIK)	None
Latvia (LV)	Register of Enterprises	None
Australia (AU)	Australian Business Register	None
Canada (CA)	Corporations Canada (federal corporations only)	None
Japan (JP)	National Tax Agency corporate numbers	None
US (US)	SEC EDGAR filers, plus New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Iowa and Florida (active filings) state registers and Texas franchise taxpayers	US SIC (SEC), NAICS (Connecticut)
Any other code	LEI holders from GLEIF	None

Limits

• Websites are known for only part of each country. We match a website when the register states it, when the company's own site prints its registry number, or from name and postcode or Wikidata. Most small companies have no match yet, so the default active-with-website list is much shorter than active, and in some countries and towns it's nearly empty. Switch to segment: "active" for the full register.
• No people and no contact details. No names of directors or staff, no emails, no phone numbers.
• Monthly data. We rebuild from each register's newest open file about once a month, so recent changes can take a few weeks to show. Each row's lastUpdated shows the build it came from.
• Registered address only. city and postcode are the registered office, not every place a company trades.
• Canada covers federal corporations, not provincial ones. US coverage is SEC filers, six state registers and Texas franchise taxpayers.

Price

You pay per company returned. Companies an onlyNew run skips are free.

Event	Starter	Scale	Business
Company	$0.50 per 1,000	$0.375 per 1,000	$0.275 per 1,000

A run stops cleanly at maxResults or at the run's maximum charge, whichever comes first, and says so in its status message. Run it again with onlyNew on to carry on from there.

Licences and attribution

These are official open-data files. Most licences let you reuse the data, including commercially, as long as you credit the source. Each row carries its register's line in attribution. Keep it with the data wherever you use or pass it on:

• UK: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• France: Source: INSEE, Sirene database, Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
• Norway: Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by the Brønnøysund Register Centre.
• Singapore: Contains information from ACRA entity data accessed from data.gov.sg, made available under the Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0.
• Finland: Contains data from the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH), YTJ open data, CC BY 4.0.
• Estonia: Contains data from the Estonian e-Business Register (Registrite ja Infosüsteemide Keskus), CC BY 4.0.
• Czechia: Source: Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ), Registr ekonomických subjektů, CC BY 4.0. Modified by locaihost data. (Label the data as modified, never as unchanged official ČSÚ statistics.)
• Australia: Contains data from the Australian Business Register (ABN Lookup bulk extract), CC BY 3.0 AU. Australia's Spam Act 2003 applies to anyone who sends commercial messages using this data.
• Canada: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence (Canada). No endorsement by the Government of Canada.
• Japan: 出典：国税庁法人番号公表サイト（国税庁）(https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/) を加工して作成 / Source: National Tax Agency Corporate Number Publication Site, processed by locaihost data.
• Sweden: Contains data from Bolagsverket (Swedish Companies Registration Office), high-value datasets.
• Ireland: Contains data from the Companies Registration Office (CRO), Ireland, CC BY 4.0.
• Latvia, GLEIF, SEC and the US state registers are public domain or ask for no credit. Their rows still name the source.

Removal requests

If a record about your organisation is wrong, or you want it removed, email apify@locaihost.org with the company's registry id or name. Removed records stop appearing in every run. You don't need to give a reason.

Good to know

• If you contact these companies, the marketing rules of their country apply to you: for example PECR in the UK, the GDPR in the EU and the Spam Act in Australia. You control what you do with the list. Use it lawfully and in line with each source's licence.
• Lookups by company name or registry number are in Company Registry Lookup, and lists of newly incorporated companies in New Company Registrations (both by locaihost data on the Apify Store).

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