Head Offices

[dick dastardly]

I feel a small mail-merge coming on but haven't the addresses to send it to. Anyone know where I can get this info for free? Preferably in a Word or Excel

I am after the head office address of 500-2000 of the largest companies in the UK. No contact names or numbers needed.

>>> Edited by dick dastardly on Thursday 28th October 14:54

[Guy Humpage]

dick dastardly said:

No contact names or numbers needed.

As companies of this size would have dedicated post rooms, would not your 'unaddressed' mail be just filled in the postie's bin?

[TheLemming]

Probably the quickest and cheapest way to do it would be to call your local data house (or Dunn and Bradstreet who are likely to be marginally more expensive but their data is normally very good quality) and order the information you want.

You should get it in the format your after, cheaply and within a couple of hours.

[dick dastardly]

Guy - I do this quite regularly (small scale mail-outs) and get a much higher than average response rate as they are targetting a person in the company who usually doesn't get too much other mail.

Lemming - I'll try them. The last list I bought was dire. Contacts were upto 5 years out of date, addresses spelt incorrectly, Bankrupt companies, etc. so was just looking for the addresses to get straight into it. I'll check up the one you mention though.

[TheLemming]

I've worked in callcentres / telemarketing / marketing for quite some time and list quality is a BIG factor.

I've used Dunn and Bradstreet a few times in the past, their business data tends to be of a very high quality compared to a lot of others.

They still have out of date contacts, crap addresses etc, but they tend (in my experience) to be better than others I've used.