Local business leads in Norway, trade by trade

Norway is the deepest file we hold. We crawled it first and it shows.

The file runs from accountants at the top down to roofing contractors at the bottom.

The headline is the website gap. 2,870 of these firms run on a Maps listing and nothing else.

That is 30% of the whole country file. For a web agency it is the entire pitch list.

The email side reads 38%. So 3,686 of the 9,632 give you an address to write to.

The rest give you a phone number and a door. Both still work, and both cost more time.

Every number on this page comes out of the live database. We do not round them up and we do not model them.

A count you cannot check is a count you should not trust. So we print ours next to the date we took it.

• Accountants — 851 of them, 191 with an email, and 431 with no site at all
• Hair salons — 694 of them, 129 with an email, and 279 with no site at all
• Dentists — 610 of them, 183 with an email, and 285 with no site at all
• Plumbers — 605 of them, 240 with an email, and 186 with no site at all
• Electricians — 602 of them, 290 with an email, and 172 with no site at all
• Carpenters — 565 of them, 170 with an email, and 218 with no site at all
• Chiropractors — 460 of them, 241 with an email, and 79 with no site at all
• Law firms — 438 of them, 193 with an email, and 141 with no site at all
• Photographers — 435 of them, 96 with an email, and 125 with no site at all
• Beauty salons — 345 of them, 96 with an email, and 76 with no site at all
• Gyms — 340 of them, 158 with an email, and 57 with no site at all
• Driving schools — 337 of them, 180 with an email, and 43 with no site at all
• Bakeries — 332 of them, 145 with an email, and 63 with no site at all
• Estate agencies — 321 of them, 127 with an email, and 119 with no site at all
• Restaurants — 320 of them, 128 with an email, and 56 with no site at all
• Travel agencies — 274 of them, 92 with an email, and 101 with no site at all
• Opticians — 271 of them, 185 with an email, and 16 with no site at all
• Pharmacies — 259 of them, 140 with an email, and 18 with no site at all
• Cleaning companies — 250 of them, 100 with an email, and 96 with no site at all
• Painters — 247 of them, 54 with an email, and 112 with no site at all
• Car rental agencies — 244 of them, 184 with an email, and 28 with no site at all
• Hairdressers — 225 of them, 52 with an email, and 64 with no site at all
• Florists — 224 of them, 122 with an email, and 50 with no site at all
• Veterinary clinics — 199 of them, 104 with an email, and 22 with no site at all
• Roofing contractors — 184 of them, 86 with an email, and 33 with no site at all

Read the third number first. It is the one that tells you who has nobody selling to them yet.

A firm with no site has no agency, no retainer and no marketing manager to get past.

The second number tells you how you can reach them. A low email count means a phone list, not a bad list.

15 of our 25 Norwegian trades clear that floor. 10 do not.

The largest of the thin ones is travel agencies, at 274 records. That is real data. It is not a list you can run a campaign on.

Here are the ones we cannot yet publish, with what we hold for each.

• Travel agencies — 274
• Opticians — 271
• Pharmacies — 259
• Cleaning companies — 250
• Painters — 247
• Car rental agencies — 244
• Hairdressers — 225
• Florists — 224
• Veterinary clinics — 199
• Roofing contractors — 184

Most of those sit within a hundred records of the line, so a deeper crawl of Norway moves several of them onto the published side.

You can still export any of these inside the app. There is no lock on a small category.

What we will not do is build a landing page that claims a national list and hands you a hundred rows.

Which is how a thin list gets sold twice. It is also how a search engine learns to skip a whole site.

If a trade on that list matters to you, tell us. We can push a deeper crawl at it.

Write the first line in Norwegian

Norwegians read English without effort. That is not the same as answering it.

A cold email in Norwegian reads like a neighbour wrote it. One in English reads like a mailing list.

You do not need a full translation. Put the subject line and the first sentence in Norwegian.

Bokmål is the safe written standard for business. Nynorsk is real, and you will not need it for a first email.

Ask a question in Norwegian and most owners answer in Norwegian. Some flip to English on their own.

The register is called Brønnøysund

Norway keeps its company data at the Brønnøysund Register Centre. Everyone shortens that to Brønnøysund.

It runs the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Every firm there carries a nine-digit organisation number.

The public lookup at brreg.no costs nothing. Type a name and you get the legal entity behind the shopfront.

Our rows come from Maps, not from that register. Use the two together and you know who you are writing to.

The working day, and the month to skip

The Norwegian office day starts early. Eight in the morning is normal and four in the afternoon is the end.

Call before nine and you often reach the owner. After four you reach nobody.

July is the month to skip. Most of the country takes fellesferie, a shared summer break of about three weeks.

Send in mid-July and you collect out-of-office replies. Send in late August and you catch a fresh desk.

The file comes as CSV or XLSX. One row per business, with no row cap on any plan.

• Name, street address, postcode, region and map coordinates
• Phone, with a flag for the ones that reach a mobile
• Email, plus the page we pulled it from, so you can check our working
• Website, and a flag for the firms that have none
• Rating, review count and whether the owner has claimed the listing
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn where the listing carries them
• Opening hours, price band and the full Maps category tree
• First seen and last seen, so you know how old a row is

Your file stays yours. Cancel next week and the export on your laptop still works.

We do not delete customer exports. See what each plan holds.

Every plan reaches every country and every filter. There is no upgrade wall on geography.