Evidence directory
Official sources behind supplier passports
This is the complete source inventory. A row shows a source we can point a user back to, not an endorsement of every company found in it. Zero coverage stays visible as zero.
Read the short verification methodology →National business registers
Other official databases in use
These sources add licences, certifications, sanctions, trade, environmental, ownership and other facets. Only sources currently producing facts appear here.
| Database | What it supports | Scope | Facts on file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctions and debarment | |||
| OpenSanctions | consolidated public sanctions lists and public-contract debarment lists, matched on identifiers rather than on names alone. | Global | 944,633 |
| Identity on the web | |||
| BODACC official bulletin | court-ordered and statutory publications about a French company, including insolvency and changes of control. | France | 265,130 |
| ICANN RDAP domain lookup | when the company's domain was first registered and who the registrar is, so a brand-new domain cannot pose as an old business. | Global | 115,105 |
| Internet Archive | how long the company's website has actually existed, taken from independently archived snapshots. | Global | 43,695 |
| GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier index | a globally unique legal-entity identifier, which ties the same company across registers and countries. | Global | 42,848 |
| Companies House: people with significant control | who ultimately controls a UK company. Every company must file its people with significant control, so an empty filing is itself a statement on the record. | United Kingdom | 1,790 |
| Environment and industry | |||
| SYDEREP (ADEME) producer register | the company is registered as a producer under extended producer responsibility, which is a legal obligation tied to putting goods on the French market. | France | 237,397 |
| Georisques classified installations | the site is registered as a classified industrial installation, which is direct evidence of production capacity at an address. | France | 17,424 |
| EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED and E-PRTR) | the site holds an industrial permit or is reported as a production facility under EU IED and E-PRTR rules, with its regulated activity and location. | European Union | 7,306 |
| Georisques inspection reports | a state inspector visited the site and wrote down what is produced there, in their own words, in a report published with a date. | France | 4,555 |
| IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste | the operator filed the annual pollutant and waste declaration for this site, which shows the plant was actually running that year, not merely licensed. | France | 4,535 |
| ANVISA Good Manufacturing Practice certificates (Brazil) | a health regulator inspected the plant, anywhere in the world, and certified how it manufactures the product class named, with the certificate validity date. | Worldwide, through the Brazilian market | 2,265 |
| Brazilian annual industrial activity report (IBAMA RAPP) | the plant filed its yearly environmental declaration with the federal environment agency, naming the activity carried out and the reporting year. A filed declaration is evidence the site was operating that year, not merely registered. | Brazil | 2,075 |
| EPA Facility Registry Service | the facility is known to the US environmental regulator, with its industrial classification and location. | United States | 2,016 |
| US EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online) | the facility holds a permit under a named US environmental law (air, water or hazardous waste), and what industry the regulator records at that address. | United States | 759 |
| French official lists of approved food and feed establishments | the state names this exact site by its SIRET number and says what it is approved to do: slaughter, cut, process, or, separately, only store. The activity code is printed, so a cold store is never shown as a factory. | France and its overseas departments | 623 |
| Uruguayan directory of industrial enterprises (DEI) | the company holds a current entry in the register that Uruguayan law makes compulsory for industrial activity, with its RUT number, principal activity and the address of its main plant. | Uruguay | 220 |
| Environment Agency: permitted industrial installations | that the environment authority permitted an industrial installation at a named address, with a permit number and date: production on a site, not an office. | England | 138 |
| NPRI, National Pollutant Release Inventory (Environment and Climate Change Canada) | the company reports from a named industrial facility at a Canadian address, and the federal regulator records that site's industry code. | Canada | 15 |
| Sector registers | |||
| Korean registered factory list | the company holds a registered factory, which is direct state evidence of manufacturing. | South Korea | 76,293 |
| Commercial Court of Abidjan, trade register formalities (RCCM) | the court that keeps Côte d'Ivoire's trade register published this company's RCCM number and the dated entry that created or changed it, the closest thing the country has to a machine-readable company record. | Côte d'Ivoire | 37,807 |
| DENUE national business directory | the establishment is recorded by the Mexican statistics institute at a physical address with its activity and size. | Mexico | 29,958 |
| GEMI, Greek central business registry (open data portal) | the company is on Greece's central business register under a stated number, with the activity code the state itself assigned it. | Greece | 17,596 |
| Food Standards Agency, UK food establishment registers | the site is registered with the UK food authority and, for approved establishments, cleared to handle products of animal origin under EU Regulation 853/2004. | United Kingdom | 15,588 |
| Commerce Development Administration, company registration open data (GCIS, Taiwan) | the registrar names the company's responsible person, the date it last approved a change to the entry, and every line of business it registered, so a buyer sees whether manufacturing is on the record and when the record last moved. | Taiwan | 14,563 |
| Estonian Tax and Customs Board | tax standing and declared workforce, which separates a working company from a shell. | Estonia | 14,383 |
| State register of accounting statements (FNS) | the Russian tax service publishes the company's address, status and the revenue it reported for the latest filed year. | Russia | 14,159 |
| Hong Kong Companies Registry, live local companies | the Registry still lists this exact Business Registration number among live local companies, and publishes the incorporation date, the registered office and the company name in both English and Chinese. | Hong Kong | 10,924 |
| VAT white list, Ministry of Finance of Poland | the Polish tax authority lists this company as an active VAT payer at its registered address, and names its officers. | Poland | 7,128 |
| Open Brewery DB | the brewery exists as an operating production site, with its type and location, from an open dataset. | Global | 5,002 |
| Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE) | the Belgian company register shows the seat address, the start date, the directors by name and whether the company is registered as an employer. | Belgium | 4,615 |
| Marktstammdatenregister (German Federal Network Agency) | the company is on the German state register of energy-market actors at a named address, which is where a working plant leaves its first mandatory trace. | Germany | 4,299 |
| Ministry of Finance, national business tax registration (Taiwan) | the business is on the national tax register under its own number, which is the state's own record that it trades. | Taiwan | 4,182 |
| Industrial Development Administration, registered factory directory (Taiwan) | a registered factory stands at a named address and its status reads producing, not merely licensed. | Taiwan | 3,572 |
| Unified register of small and medium enterprises | official size class and declared activity codes, published by the tax service. | Russia | 2,887 |
| Registro Nazionale degli Aiuti di Stato (Italy) | the company received a named state-aid measure, and the record carries the sector of that measure; it is the measure's sector, not a declaration of what the legal entity makes. | Italy | 2,737 |
| Active Taxpayer List, Federal Board of Revenue (Pakistan) | the company is on Pakistan's list of active income-tax payers under its own National Tax Number, which is the key every other Pakistani register answers to. | Pakistan | 2,664 |
| SIEM, Sistema de Información Empresarial Mexicano (Secretaría de Economía) | the establishment is listed in the Mexican state business information system with its municipality, line of business and size band, as declared by the company through its chamber. | Mexico | 2,635 |
| Finnish Tax Administration, public corporate tax data (Verohallinto) | Finnish law makes corporate tax data public, so the state itself publishes that this company was assessed for the tax year: a dormant shell has no such line, and the record carries the business ID, the taxation municipality and the tax assessed. | Finland | 2,602 |
| CCEE, Brazilian wholesale electricity market register | the company buys electricity on Brazil's free market, which is open only to sites with a connected industrial load, so the plant exists and draws industrial power. | Brazil | 2,221 |
| Department of Business Development, DBD DataWarehouse (Thailand) | the juristic person is on Thailand's central register as still operating, with its registration number, official English name and registered address. | Thailand | 2,147 |
| OpenCoesione, national register of cohesion-funded beneficiaries (Italy) | the state records the company's own ATECO activity code, which is how Italy classifies what a business actually does; the trade register itself sits behind a captcha, so this is the free national route to that code. | Italy | 1,646 |
| Register of recognised food business operators, National Food Agency (Georgia) | the Georgian food agency inspected this physical site and recognised it: the record carries the national identification code, the site address, the activity in the regulator's own words, the date of state control and the recognition number. Operating without that recognition is prohibited, so the entry proves a working, inspected plant rather than a registration on paper. | Georgia | 1,372 |
| APII industrial enterprise directory (Tunisia) | the factory is on the national industrial promotion agency's register with its sector, workforce and production address. | Tunisia | 1,212 |
| Environment Agency public registers (England) | the regulator holds a permit, licence or registration for this operator, which means a real site under environmental supervision rather than an address on a letterhead. | United Kingdom | 1,127 |
| UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors | the company holds a Home Office licence to sponsor workers, which requires the department to have checked that the business genuinely operates in the UK. | United Kingdom | 960 |
| ALIMS register of medical-device manufacturers (Serbia) | the Serbian medicines and medical devices agency lists this company as a manufacturer of medical devices and marks it verified. It proves a regulator names them a maker, not where the factory stands. | Worldwide manufacturers registered for the Serbian market | 903 |
| Environmental permit register (Type A/B), National Environment Agency of Albania | the Albanian environment agency has permitted a named physical site for this company: the record carries the national NUIS number, the plant address, the activity in the regulator's own words and the permit date. It proves a regulated site exists, not that the holder manufactures - the wording of the activity is what says that. | Albania | 820 |
| BPOM register of manufacturing facilities behind product registrations (Indonesia) | the named facility stands behind products registered with Indonesia's food and drug authority, in Indonesia or abroad. | Indonesia and exporters to it | 786 |
| Register of foreign establishments approved to export, SENASA (Costa Rica) | Costa Rica's animal health service approved this establishment, with an approval number, to export a named product to its market. | Exporters of animal-origin products to Costa Rica | 735 |
| NEBIH list of approved food establishments (Hungary) | the plant holds a Hungarian food-chain approval number for a named activity, so a state inspector, not the company, vouches for what it may produce. | Hungary | 721 |
| Official daily list of approved sanitary registrations, AGEMED (Bolivia) | the Bolivian medicines agency names this company in the manufacturer column of a product cleared for sale, separately from the local registration holder. It proves a regulator calls them the maker of that product, not where the plant stands. | Worldwide manufacturers registered for the Bolivian market | 380 |
| List of VAT Registered Persons, Mauritius Revenue Authority | the company is on the Mauritian VAT register under its own tax number and Business Registration Number, which is the key the rest of the island's registers answer to. | Mauritius | 364 |
| SHAB, Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce | the state itself published an act about this company: an entry or change in the commercial register, a bankruptcy notice, or a cantonal working-hours permit, each with a date and a permanent link. | Switzerland | 354 |
| gBizINFO establishment records (METI, Japan) | the company has a workplace registered at that address in the national social insurance system, with the number of insured staff there. | Japan | 279 |
| Tukes register of operators (Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency) | the company holds a supervised operating right in Finland (electrical work, refrigeration, hazardous chemicals and similar regulated trades), with a named responsible person on file. | Finland | 147 |
| swissdamed register of medical-device economic operators (Swissmedic) | the Swiss medicines agency registers this company for a named role in medical devices, and only the manufacturer role is shown as making them. | Switzerland and Liechtenstein | 127 |
| Taxpayer status file, ARCA (Argentina) | Argentina's tax authority lists the company under its own CUIT, with its VAT standing and whether it is registered as an employer. | Argentina | 80 |
| BPOM register of products authorised for sale (Indonesia) | products naming this company as their maker are authorised for sale in Indonesia and the authorisation is still valid. | Indonesia and exporters to it | 57 |
| Ministry of Trade, Authorised Economic Operator list (Türkiye) | Turkish customs granted the company Authorised Economic Operator status, which requires a clean customs record, financial solvency, traceable bookkeeping and security standards; it is the state vouching for a trader, not the trader vouching for itself. | Türkiye | 54 |
| Approval register of foreign food establishments, AQTA (Azerbaijan) | Azerbaijan's food safety agency approved this plant, by address, to export a named product to its market. | Exporters of food to Azerbaijan | 39 |
| Finnish Food Authority, approved food establishments | the site is an approved food establishment with its own approval number, which the authority grants only after inspecting the premises; the number is what appears on the products. | Finland | 26 |
| Approved Suppliers Center, Kurdistan Regional Government | the company passed the KRG government supplier vetting (legal form, activities and quality documents reviewed) and holds a live approval with an expiry date; inclusion in this list is a precondition for Kurdistan government contracts. | Iraq (Kurdistan Region) | 25 |
| CPSC product safety records | an official U.S. product safety record (recall) in which the authority names this company in the stated role for one specific product. The record reports the product and the action taken, not an assessment of the company. | United States market | 13 |
| OPSS product safety records (United Kingdom) | an official UK product safety record in which the Office for Product Safety and Standards names this company as the manufacturer of one specific product. The record reports the product and the action taken, not an assessment of the company. | United Kingdom market | 1 |
| Customs and export | |||
| EU EORI validation | the company holds a valid EU customs registration number, so a claim to import or export is backed by the customs record. | European Union | 68,961 |
| International Trade Administration, import/export firm registry (Taiwan) | the firm holds a live import/export registration, which in Taiwan is what a company must have before it may trade across the border at all. | Taiwan | 8,356 |
| EU Authorised Economic Operator register | customs authorities granted the company trusted-trader status after auditing its records, solvency and security. | European Union | 2,248 |
| Certification registers | |||
| Agence Bio operator directory | the operator is certified organic and under active inspection, with the certifying body and the control year on record. | France | 12,850 |
| TRACES organic operator directory | an organic certificate issued under EU rules, published by the European Commission with its scope and validity. | European Union and imports | 7,139 |
| Patentstyret, Norwegian Industrial Property Office | the company owns live trademarks, patents or designs in its own name, which a pure reseller normally does not. | Norway | 1,187 |
| FSSC 22000 certified organisations | a food-safety management certificate, with the exact production scope the audit covered. | Global | 297 |
| Kenya Bureau of Standards permits | a live standardisation-mark permit, which in Kenya is issued to the manufacturer for a named product. | Kenya | 96 |
| FSC certificate database | a valid forest-management or chain-of-custody certificate, with the product scope it actually covers. | Global | 72 |
| OEKO-TEX label check | a textile certificate is genuine and still valid, checked against the issuing institute's own directory. | Global | 12 |
| MAURICERT certification mark, Mauritius Standards Bureau | the standards body licensed a named product of this company, made under a quality plan it approved, which points at the company making the goods itself. | Mauritius | 1 |
| Public procurement | |||
| DECP, French public-procurement register | a public buyer awarded this company a contract; French law requires proof of clean tax and social-contribution standing at award date, so the award is also an indirect trace of both. | France | 10,468 |
| Tenders Electronic Daily | the company appears in published European public-procurement results, which is an independent trace of real delivery. | European Union | 8,922 |
| PGFN, federal active debt register (Brazil) | whether the company carries published debt to the federal treasury, an obligation a buyer inherits nothing of but should know about. | Brazil | 3,809 |
| e-Nabavke supplier register (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | the company is registered as a public-procurement supplier with its tax number, address and responsible person on file. | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 961 |
| Quarterly Contract Awards, Government of Jamaica open data | public bodies in Jamaica awarded contracts to this company, with the subject and the date. It is an award record, not proof the goods were made or delivered. | Jamaica | 65 |
| Licences and permits | |||
| Finnish Patent and Registration Office, Trade Register (PRH/YTJ) | the company is entered in the Finnish Trade Register under this Business ID (Y-tunnus), with the registration date and the line of business the register itself records. | Finland | 9,977 |
| FDA establishment registration and device listing | the establishment is registered with the US Food and Drug Administration and lists the devices it makes. | United States and exporters to it | 7,728 |
| EAEU conformity registry | a conformity certificate or declaration registered in the unified Eurasian Economic Union registry, naming this company as the manufacturer of the covered goods. | Eurasian Economic Union market, manufacturers worldwide | 3,641 |
| Ministry of Health, approved food establishments (Italy) | the plant holds an EU 853/2004 approval, which is granted only after the state inspected that exact address. | Italy | 1,801 |
| FDA device establishment registration (openFDA) | the site is registered with the US regulator as a medical-device establishment, with its address and the device types listed. Registration is a record of entry to that market, not an approval of quality. | Worldwide | 674 |
| EudraGMDP | a Good Manufacturing Practice certificate issued by a European medicines inspectorate after inspecting the site. | European Union and inspected third countries | 658 |
| EudraGMDP manufacturing authorisations | a manufacturing or import authorisation (MIA) issued by a European medicines authority, without which medicines may not be produced for the EU market. | European Union | 464 |
| Latvian Food and Veterinary Service registers | the establishment is approved or registered to handle food and animal products. | Latvia | 384 |
| Fimea basic register | a Finnish licence to manufacture, import or distribute medicinal products. | Finland | 123 |
| FDA National Drug Code directory | the drug product is listed with the FDA under a National Drug Code, naming its labeller. | United States | 82 |