BusinessDetails

Company identity and registration details

companyType
Type: string enum
Legal form of the entity. Null when the entity type is unknown.
- SOLE_TRADER — sole trader.
- PRIVATE_LIMITED_COMPANY — private company limited by shares (Ltd).
- LIMITED_COMPANY — company limited by shares (generic).
- LIMITED_BY_GUARANTEE — company limited by guarantee.
- COMMUNITY_INTEREST_COMPANY — Community Interest Company (CIC).
- UNLIMITED_COMPANY — unlimited company.
- PUBLIC_LIMITED_COMPANY — Public Limited Company (PLC).
- LIMITED_LIABILITY_PARTNERSHIP — Limited Liability Partnership (LLP).
- LIMITED_PARTNERSHIP — Limited Partnership (LP).
- SCOTTISH_LIMITED_PARTNERSHIP — Scottish Limited Partnership (SLP).
- SECTION_30_EXEMPT — Section 30 exempt private company (rare variant).
- CO_OPERATIVE_SOCIETY — co-operative society.
- COMMUNITY_BENEFIT_SOCIETY — community benefit society.
- CREDIT_UNION — credit union.
- BUILDING_SOCIETY — building society.
- FRIENDLY_SOCIETY — friendly society.
- CIO — Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
- SCIO — Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
- UK_SOCIETAS — UK Societas (formerly European Company, SE).
- CHARTERED_CORPORATION — chartered corporation.
- STATUTORY_CORPORATION — statutory corporation.
- CORPORATION_SOLE — corporation sole.
- CORPORATION_BY_PRESCRIPTION — corporation by prescription.
- OTHER — any other legal form.
values
- SOLE_TRADER
- PRIVATE_LIMITED_COMPANY
- LIMITED_COMPANY
- LIMITED_BY_GUARANTEE
- COMMUNITY_INTEREST_COMPANY
employees
Type: integer Format: int32

Reported employee count from the most recent filed accounts (average number of employees where available, otherwise the period-end headcount). Null when not reported.
incorporationDate
Type: string Format: date-time

Date the company was incorporated, as an ISO-8601 date-time. Null when unknown.
jurisdiction
Type: string

Jurisdiction of incorporation, as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. GB for the United Kingdom, IE for Ireland).
legalName
Type: string

Registered legal name of the company.
previousNames
Type: array string[]

Former registered names the company has traded under. Null when none.
primarySicCode
Type: string

Primary Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) activity code — the company's main declared business activity. Null when not declared.
primarySicDescription
Type: string

Human-readable description of the primary SIC activity code. Null when not available.
registeredAddress
Type: object
Registered office address, taken from the structured registered address on the most relevant source record. Null when no address is available.
- city
  Type: string
  
  City or town of the registered office. Null when not available.
- country
  Type: string
  
  Country of the registered office, as free text (a country name, not necessarily an ISO country code). Null when not available.
- postcode
  Type: string
  
  Postal or ZIP code of the registered office. Null when not available.
- region
  Type: string
  
  Region, county or state of the registered office. Null when not available.
- streetLine1
  Type: string
  
  First line of the registered office street address. Null when not available.
- streetLine2
  Type: string
  
  Second line of the registered office street address (e.g. suite or building). Null when not available.
registrationNumber
Type: string

Company registration number in its home registry (for UK companies, the Companies House number).
sicCodes
Type: array object[] · SicCode[]

All declared SIC industry-classification codes for the company (including the primary one). Null when none are declared.
SIC industry classification code
- code
  Type: string
  
  The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code assigned to the company, as reported by the source register (UK SIC 2007).
- description
  Type: string
  
  Human-readable description of the activity the SIC code represents. Null when no description is available.