Selecting Your Target Market
HFdata Fax Marketing system is based upon our unique selectable database of over 480,000 U.K. Companies. We can target your sales message using any, or all, of the following criteria -
Business Identification Codes
For ease of use we have we have grouped the thousands of UK Standard Industry Codes (UKSIC's) into Just eleven eleven main business types which we call Business Identification Codes (BIC's). These BIC´s can then be sub-divided to make your targeting even more precise. Click on any industry type below to see the range and numbers of companies that we can access for you within each business code. Numbers quoted are for all companies within that sector throughout the UK. Email us on info@hfdata.co.uk with your requirements to get our best quote.
Industry Types are - Manufacturing (114,109 companies), Construction (55,592 companies), Motor Vehicle Trade ( 24,202 companies), Wholesalers (17,407) & Retailers (54,542), Hospitality, Culture & Recreation (35,033), Transport, Storage & Travel (16,964), Finance, Insurance& Property (22,976), Computing, Telecoms, Office & Secruity (18,278), Business & Professional Services, Public Services, Education & Health (45,603 companies).
Click on any of above to get a further breakdown. Or click here to get a full listing on screen.
n.b. We make every effort to ensure that all our fax numbers are categorised peoperly. However, to ensure that we only send your flyer once to any company, we use the companies fax number as our unique database identifier. This means that we can only have each fax number once on our database and only have it in one of the above categories even though a large number of companies operate in several different business areas. Country/Region
Selecting by Geographical Area's
We have sub-divided the country into nine geographic area's. These are Scotland, North West England, North East England, Midlands, Wales, East England, South England, South West England, London & Home Counties, Northern Ireland.
Within these we list
London & South East - 117,520
East England - 15,421
South England - 44,355
South West England - 36,010
Birmingham & Midlands - 81,627
North West England - 83,199
North East England - 24,808
Wales - 28,718
Scotland - 38,073
Northern Ireland - 21,624
Postcode & Regional Map
The UK is divided into 142 postcode areas. For ease of use, we only use the alphabetic part of the code (i.e. CM or AB, but not CM12 etc.) Click here for an up to date postcode map.
Telephone STD Area
Sending to local telephone area's can target your message to just a few square miles (e.g. 01224 covers Aberdeen city while the AB postcode covers a much larger area).
Number of Employees
These range in seven groups from 1 - 5 to over 500 and are
- a - 1 to 5
- b - 6 to 10
- c - 11 to 25
- d - 26 to 50
- e - 51 to 100
- f - 101 to 200
- g - 201 to 500
- h - above 500
Be aware, however, there is no uniform system for reporting the number of employees within an organisation. Some companies report the total number of employees within the company, while others report the number site by just the numbers of employees in a particular location.