Guides
Start by finding the right Swiss companies, then use company changes to choose the right time to call. These guides explain both steps, starting with the public registers.
Build a Swiss target market
Build a Swiss B2B prospect list from a sales brief. Define your ICP, estimate the market and review company matches with a real manufacturing example.
An ideal customer profile (ICP) template for selling in Switzerland, as a spreadsheet, with completed examples for a recruitment agency and an IT services firm.
Apollo, Cognism, Lusha, D&B, CRIF, InfobelPRO, Moneyhouse and Prospex compared for Swiss B2B leads: Swiss coverage, contacts and published prices.
Compare Swiss address lists by source, freshness and usable company records. Check a sample and the outreach rules before paying for a larger file.
TAM, SAM and SOM worked through on Swiss data: fiduciaries in Romandie, counted in the commercial register and checked against STATENT, filter by filter.
Where to find a Swiss company's NOGA code and how NOGA 2025 differs from NOGA 2008, with a worked example of turning NOGA codes into a prospect list.
Three good customers, one method for turning them into a Swiss prospect list. Why register purposes and industry codes fail at it, and how to test the list.
STATENT counted 649,353 Swiss business units for 2024, the register about 740,000. Why they differ, and the 223,000 to 260,000 companies that mainly sell B2B.
Research a Swiss company
Find out when Swiss company accounts are available, how to compare published statements, and what registered capital tells you when accounts are private.
Compare Firmenhai and Prospex for Swiss company lists: file delivery, API access and ongoing monitoring. A guide for sales teams, agencies and data buyers.
Compare Pappers Switzerland and Prospex for Swiss B2B prospecting: company lookup, target markets, monitoring and what you can try for free.
Compare Moneyhouse and Prospex for Swiss prospecting: company search, target lists, monitoring and costs, with a reviewed example list.
business-monitor.ch sells prospect lists from CHF 99 a month for 200 exports. Compare it with Prospex on a real list of 320 Swiss managed IT providers.
Compare firmenwatch.ch and Prospex for monitoring Swiss companies: sources, alerts, finding new prospects, integrations and published prices.
easyMonitoring is now Lixt. Compare Lixt Monitoring and Prospex for Swiss companies: SHAB sources, new registrations, alerts, subscription terms and CRM links.
Zefix and the SHAB are free, address files cost CHF 0.29 to 0.90 a company, platforms from CHF 29 a month. Swiss company data compared by task, API and price.
A one-page account research template for Swiss companies, with two completed briefs: buying-entity checks, source dates, open points and a decision.
Keep target accounts current
Set up free Swiss company alerts with Prospex. Compare SHAB search subscriptions, Moneyhouse and Swissreg, with checked limits and step-by-step instructions.
Capital increases, leadership changes, trademark filings, hiring: nine changes in Swiss public records, what each establishes and how long it stays relevant.
Turn research into a sales conversation
A Swiss B2B prospecting workflow in seven steps, from the target-account list to the CRM record, and what each step has to hand to the next.
A public change is weak evidence on a stranger and a reason to call a lost account. Which Swiss register events reverse which loss reasons, and what to write.
Five annotated B2B outreach emails built on Swiss register changes: what each notice proves, what it leaves open and how to word the difference.
Understand the Swiss commercial register
SHAB/FOSC publishes register entries, bankruptcies and calls to creditors every working day. Where to find the latest notices and how to read them.
A capital increase records that shareholders committed money, and when. How it works, what triggers one and the cases that mean the opposite of growth.
Look up a Swiss company's UID in the UID register, check it yourself, and find the Swiss equivalent of Companies House, SIREN and the EU VAT number.
What a Swiss commercial register extract contains: capital, purpose, board members, signing authority and the journal, plus where to get one.
Swiss company data for developers
Research a Swiss company: UID register, Zefix, SHAB, cantonal extract, debt and transparency registers, job ads. What each source shows and how current it is.
Zefix API access is free, with credentials issued by email. The ten PublicREST endpoints, the UID form it accepts today, and LINDAS SPARQL with no login.
amtsblattportal.ch/api/v1/publications: the required parameters, the one the server ignores, the HR XML structure and a daily ingest that survives corrections.
The SIMAP API answers simap.ch tender and award searches without a login: parameters, field paths, the winner's UID, daily polling and the API terms.
Wire a reviewed list of Swiss companies into the stack you already run: a tokenised JSON feed, a CSV of the same rows, the fit reasons, and the pagination code.
For recruitment agencies
Build a Swiss employer prospect list for permanent recruitment: define your territory, check company fit and turn a weekly review into relevant conversations.
Turn Swiss vacancies into a recruitment prospect list: verify the employer, check dates, remove duplicates and qualify roles against your specialism.
A weekly employer review for Swiss recruitment agencies: combine live vacancies and company changes, verify sources and decide when to reconnect.
Use this method yourself, or let Prospex apply it to your target market.
See an example listExplore the figures behind the method. See the reports.
A term on an extract or a SHAB notice you do not recognise? Look it up in the register lexicon.
The register entries these guides read from are published company by company. Filter the Swiss company directory by canton, sector and size.