Free tool
Global Company Register Search
Type a company name or a register number, pick the register, and the check returns the matched companies with their number, status and registered address. You get 5 free checks a day, with no account, and it is the same search the API runs.
- 5 free checks a day
- No account and no API key
- Checked against the live register
The result appears here. Nothing is stored, and the allowance is per visitor per day.
Company numbers only mean something inside one register. See which registers we serve.
Example result
A name resolves to one entity in the German register
- Legal name
- Adidas AG
- Register
- DE, the German Handelsregister
- Company number
- HRB 3868 (illustrative)
- Status
- active
- Registered address
- Adi-Dassler-Strasse 1, 91074 Herzogenaurach
Illustrative search result for the global company search page. Confirm the live register number on the official Handelsregister before you rely on it.
A real check above replaces this example.
What the check reads
- The query
- At least two characters. Two is the point where a name search stops returning half the register, and it is the same minimum the API enforces.
- Name matching
- Accents are folded, punctuation is dropped and case is ignored, then candidates are ranked. A company number passed in as a name is matched as an identifier first.
- The register
- A lowercase code, two letters for a country or a country plus a state. The search only looks in the register you name.
- Result size
- This page asks for five candidates. The API returns between one and a hundred per page and hands you a cursor for the next page.
- What is not included
- Officers and directors. Not every register publishes them, and where one does not the officers endpoint returns officers_not_available rather than an empty list.
Where the answer comes from
- Companies House, find and update service
The UK register. Every company number the GB search returns resolves here.
- Bolagsverket
The Swedish register. Every organisationsnummer the SE search returns is filed here.
Worked examples
Example inputs and the results they return.
A name resolves to one entity in the German register
- Legal name
- Adidas AG
- Register
- DE, the German Handelsregister
- Company number
- HRB 3868 (illustrative)
- Status
- active
- Registered address
- Adi-Dassler-Strasse 1, 91074 Herzogenaurach
Illustrative search result for the global company search page. Confirm the live register number on the official Handelsregister before you rely on it.
A register number resolves exactly
- Legal name
- TESCO PLC
- Register
- GB, the UK company register
- Company number
- 00445790
- Next request
- GET /v1/companies/gb/00445790
Leading zeros matter. The UK company register numbers are eight characters wide, and a number typed as 445790 will not resolve.
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