In brief
- Of 1,577,933 records, 84.1% have a phone number, 79.0% a website and 41.8% their own email address (as of 4 November 2026).
- Email is the rarest channel: only require it if you really intend to write.
- An address found on several records may belong to a service provider: check the domain first.
- A small selection (one industry, one department) can be prepared on request.
A list of business contacts is worth exactly the channels it really contains. Before ordering anything, it helps to know what the data says about each channel, how many records have it and what you can expect from it. Here is what we measure in our own database.
What a record contains
A record brings together the company name, its address and, where known, three contact channels: phone, website and email. Not all of them exist for every company.
| Channel | Records | Share of records |
|---|---|---|
| At least one channel | 1,505,366 | 95.4% |
| Phone | 1,326,371 | 84.1% |
| Website | 1,247,091 | 79.0% |
| Own email address | 659,494 | 41.8% |
Phone: the most common channel
Phone numbers come from Overture Maps’s open map data: the number published for the establishment, whether a switchboard, a shop or, for some tradespeople, a mobile. According to Entreprendre Service Public, a company’s switchboard number is not in itself personal data; a sole trader’s mobile is. We do not test numbers, so expect some to be out of service.
Website: useful even if you never visit it
1,247,091 records have a website (79.0%). It lets you check what a company really does before you contact it, and it is often where the email address is found. We visited 786,048 domains: 617,802 responded and 419,552 showed at least one email address.
Email: the rarest channel
659,494 records (41.8%) have their own email address; for 124,149 of them it comes only from the company’s website. Counting shared addresses as well, 763,118 records have one. We do not reconstruct addresses from a name: a generic address (contact@, info@) refers to the company, a personal address to a person, and the two follow different rules.
What to do with shared addresses
The same address sometimes appears on records with different names: a web agency, a business centre or a booking platform, for example. From three records with different names, we no longer count it as a company’s own address: 14,504 addresses are in that position. If you find one in your list, look at the domain. If it matches the company’s website, keep it; if it clearly belongs to a provider, prefer the phone or the website form. And do not merge these records automatically: two companies can share an address without being the same company.
Choosing channels and a selection
For calls, require a phone number; for an email campaign, require an own email address, knowing the list will be shorter; to qualify a company first, require a website. Coverage varies little by region: in mainland France and Corsica, the share of records with at least one channel ranges from 94.9% (Corse) to 96.7% (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).
A list of company contacts need not be long to be useful: one industry in a department or two can be enough. Such selections are priced on request, with the number of records confirmed before you order. See the industries, the database status and the export and sample file.
Frequently asked questions
Why don’t all records have an email address?
Because not all companies publish one in the sources we use. What is not there stays empty: we do not guess addresses from a name and an assumed pattern.
Does an empty field mean the company has no phone?
No. It only means the information is not in our sources. For a company that matters to you, check its website before concluding.
Is an address found on two records suspicious?
Not necessarily: two establishments of the same company can share an address. We only stop counting it as the company’s own from three records with different names. Below that, look at the domain.
As of 9 November 2026. Figures of our database as of 4 November 2026; Entreprendre Service Public page F37351 retrieved on 9 November 2026. General information, not legal advice.
