Blog

Guides for prospecting French companies: contacts, emails and B2B rules

Guides for prospecting French companies: B2B email lists, building a prospect list, CNIL rules, the Sirene database and NAF codes.

B2B email lists of French companies: where the addresses come from and how to use them

Generic or personal addresses, contact and legal notice pages, excluded shared addresses, what the CNIL says and six checks before the first send of a B2B campaign.

Read more →

Building a B2B prospect list of French companies in five steps

Target by NAF code and area, choosing channels by phone, email and website coverage, matching with your customer file, qualification and CNIL rules.

Read more →

B2B prospecting in France: what email and phone outreach allows

Email, phone, post: what the CNIL allows towards professionals, how generic addresses are treated, the end of Bloctel on 11 August 2026 and the duties under Articles 14 and 21 GDPR.

Read more →

Buying French company data: ten things to check

Ten checks before you order: sources and licences, data date, fill rates, shared addresses, intended use and price per record you can actually use.

Read more →

NAF and APE codes: how to target an industry in France

How NAF rev. 2 is structured, how to use it to define a target group, where its limits lie and what changes with NAF 2025 on 1 January 2027.

Read more →

The Sirene database: SIREN, SIRET and what French public data really contain

What INSEE’s Sirene database publishes free of charge every month, the difference between SIREN and SIRET, partial dissemination, the Recherche d’entreprises API – and why it contains no contact details.

Read more →