Whether you are raising an invoice, drafting a contract or preparing a sales call, you almost always need the same things: the exact legal name, company code, VAT code, registered address, director and contact details. They are scattered across several sources, so it helps to know what lives where.
The core identifiers
Official data on a legal entity – name, legal form, company code, registered office, manager and status – is held in the Register of Legal Entities, maintained by the Centre of Registers. It is the most reliable source when you need to confirm that a company exists and who can represent it.
- legal name and form (UAB, MB, AB, IĮ and so on)
- company code – a unique 9-digit identifier
- VAT payer code, if the company is registered for VAT
- registered address and registration date
- manager and company status (active, in liquidation, in bankruptcy)
Contacts and operating information
Registers often lack phone numbers and emails, and where they exist they may be out of date. Contacts are usually found on the company website, in the Contacts section, as well as in business directories and social profiles. Pay attention to working hours and departments – different questions often go to different addresses.
Financial and size indicators
To understand the scale of a company, headcount, average salary, turnover and net profit are useful. Some of these indicators are published through the tax and social insurance authorities and in financial statements.
When there are many companies
One company can be checked in minutes, but hundreds or thousands cannot be done by hand. That is where a consolidated database helps: the company filter lets you select companies by city, activity and whether they have an email or phone, and download the results as CSV, JSON or XML.
If you need the data continuously, the API is the better route: your system asks for a company by code and immediately receives its details and contacts as JSON.
A short checklist
- Confirm the name and company code in the official register.
- Check the status – is the company active?
- Find contacts on the company website.
- Record the source and date so you know later how fresh the data is.
One caveat: not every company has published contacts, so even the best database cannot have them for all. When planning a campaign, select only the records where the fields you need are filled in.