Our company credit reports now include a field dedicated to the Telephone Preference Service.

What’s the Telephone Preference Service?

In their own words: ‘The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is a free service. It is the official central opt out register on which you can record your preference not to receive unsolicited sales or marketing calls. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.’

Where and how is this information shown in the company credit report?

This appears on the ‘Base Info’ page (the first page) under the new ‘Telephone Preference Service’ field.

If a company is registered the following will show:

Registered with the Telephone Preference Service

If a company is not registered, this will show:

Not registered with the Telephone Preference Service

If you have any questions about this or anything else Company Search related, leave a comment and we’ll be in touch.

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Very easily! This information is freely available on the public register. All you need to do to find out a company’s registered office (this being the official Companies House recognised address for a company) is:

1. Visit our homepage
2. Enter the company name in the ‘Company Search’ box and select ‘Search’
3. The searched for company should appear… along with the registered office address
4. If you select ‘View Details’ you will then have the option to purchase a variety of company credit reports for that company

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Company credit reports can include industry information if an annual return has been filed

They can do. If a company has filed an annual return, a company credit report will include the SIC code (Standard Industrial Classification code) for that company. This is a five figure code that defines what industry a company operates in. Company directors select this code when filing annual returns.

The usefulness of the code depends on how specific directors choose to be (multiple codes can be selected); some codes are vague (82990: Other business support service activities) whilst some are detailed (77351: Renting and leasing of air passenger transport equipment).

If a company has filed an annual return – you can check what’s been filed on the company details page – the SIC code will be displayed under “Base Information” on the first page of the company credit report:

For more information on what is included in our company credit reports, take a look here:

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Let us know if you think something is not right in your company credit report

If you are the director of a limited company, it’s a good idea to buy a company credit report on your company to get an idea of how other people are seeing you.

Whilst we are wholly confident that the information in our reports are correct, if you do spot something that you think is incorrect, it’s important that you let us know what’s wrong. There’s probably a simple explanation.

For example, the most common reason for directors thinking that a report is incorrect is that they haven’t notified Companies House of a change in the company. Once Companies House are notified, new reports with updated information are then available.

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