192.com
People, Businesses & Places
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| Private limited company | |
| Industry | Directory |
| Genre | Directory |
| Fate | Operating |
| Predecessor | iCD publishing |
| Founded | London (1997) |
| Founder | Alastair Crawford |
| Headquarters | London, Fulham, UK |
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Area served
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UK |
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Key people
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Managing Director - Keith Marsden; Bryan Foley - Financial Director; Dominic Blackburn - Product Director. |
| Products | People search, Business directory, Property Prices, Maps |
| Owner | Alastair Crawford, majority shareholder & oelther investors |
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Number of employees
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35 |
| Website | www |
192.com Limited is a British company that publishes an online directory as well as information contained within the public domain for the UK, based in London.
The company provides online directory enquiries and competes with BT, Google Local, Yelp and the Yell Group (the holding company now known as hibu, as of 2012 ) or the directory enquiry market. It is the market leader DQ for finding people.
192.com contains circa 700 million residential and business records. Of these records, 200 million come from the 2002-2017 edited Electoral Rolls, though some of these are duplicate records, 28 million people were on the edited Electoral Roll in 2015. 192.com’s other records come from Companies House Director Reports, the Land Registry, and Births Deaths and Marriages Data for England] and Wales. 192.com also publishes a directory of UK businesses, providing company credit reports, financial statements, employee numbers, current and previous directors, web mentions and county court judgements. Registered users can also add details to any business listings using User Generated Content of non-limited companies in addition to limited companies.
Founded in 1997 by Alastair Crawford, 192.com Limited evolved from a CD-ROM product called UK Info Disk, the best selling non-game CD-ROM product of its time. 192.com publishes the Edited Electoral Roll in electronic media, previously the roll had been available for consultation only in public libraries and town halls. The company offered an alternative to British Telecom's previous monopoly of telephone directory enquiries.[1]. There were a number of lawsuits related to this online challenge.
During the dotcom bubble in 2001 icd publishing was valued at £100 million.
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