The Royal Mail produce a Business & Residential file of 28 million
UK addresses - every address in the UK on a single file.
We've extracted the Business Lists from the file and offer
this at a reduced annual cost. Basically you can just order
the Business Lists for half the normal fee.
If you need more than just the address then we also have other
specific lists by business activity, 2,700 different types of
business that range from Abattoirs through to Zoos. So if
you're looking for a Business Lists of Accountants, Builders or
Plumbers etc. then you're in the right place. You can select by
employee size, turnover, geography and many other attributes.
Royal
Mail's Business Lists
Business lists including every commercially available business address that
exists on Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF). That's circa one
million sites that businesses operate from which span the UK. The
business lists exclude company type, telephone number however it does provide a very strong
and very cost effective solution for analysis,
door drop, distribution and direct marketing.
It's also worth pointing out that
Royal Mail's PAF is the only complete source of all known UK addresses &
Postcodes.
Applications
PAF data is essential to ensure that addresses are clean and
accurate for mailing purposes.
The benefits of clean addresses are:
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Reduce postage costs through Mailsort, Presstream and
Cleanmail
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Reduce the amount of undelivered mail
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Preservation of brand image
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Improved accuracy of customer and prospect analysis
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Door Drop Planning
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Distribution Analysis
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Mailings
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Address
Validation & Correction
Fields
*Grid references can be appended to the
business lists data for the appropriate licence fee or licenced separately for mapping and
GIS applications.
Format
The business lists (Royal
Mail's Postcode Address File - PAF) are supplied in a Comma Separated Variable Text format
but can be supplied as either tab delimited or as an Access database or other data format. A
link to the company list will be sent to you when you complete your order.
Licensing
The business lists
are licenced by the year. Various options are available including single, corporate,
multi user and internet licences.
Updates
All of the records we supply will have
come straight from the latest Royal Mail Postcode Address File, and will be
updated throughout the licence period every 3 months; that is a new
Business Lists file will be sent to you every 3 months whilst you remain in
licence.