Find UK companies and who owns them

Choose the trade and the place

With the M&A Pack on your account, open Find companies from the dashboard menu. Under Build your company search, in Trade and place, choose the sector codes for the kind of business you want.

Under Where, add the places. Where is read from each company's registered office postcode. Company name contains narrows it further.

What you should see: Your sector codes listed as you pick them.

Narrow by owners, age and size

Under People and business size (optional): Directors or owners aged at least, Who counts (Majority owners, Directors or Either), At least this many staff and Turnover at least (£).

More filters adds how long the company has traded (Trading at least and Trading at most, in years), how long a person has been In post, Only one director, Sole owner, Shared surname (often family-run), No successor and Ownership.

Search and review the companies

Press Search companies. Under Review your companies, each company shows where it is and when it was incorporated, with the people your search asked for.

Ages are only ever shown as a band (for example, aged 55 to 59), never a date of birth.

What you should see: A count of the companies shown and a card for each.

Open a company's profile

Press More details on a company to see all its directors and owners on the register and a timeline of its changes.

Each company you open uses one of your 500 company profiles a month. Opening the same company again in the same billing month is not counted again, and a profile that could not be read is given back.

What you should see: The company's directors and owners, and its timeline.

Find a director's LinkedIn profile

Beside a director, press Find their LinkedIn, or Find all on LinkedIn for up to 10 directors at once.

When there is a confident match you get a LinkedIn profile link. Open it and use the PitchWhip panel to reveal a direct number or email when you want one; each found number or email uses a reveal.

What you should see: A LinkedIn profile link beside the director, or "No confident match" with a Search LinkedIn link.

Export or add to a list

Press Export CSV to download the companies shown. Or tick companies and press Add to list to put their people on one of your lists.

What you should see: The CSV in your downloads, or the people on your list.

Common problems

Still stuck? The full guide covers every setting, or write to hello@pitchwhip.com and a person replies within a working day.