Window, door and conservatories in all of Ireland

Windows, Doors, & Conservatories

You want to sell into Ireland? To makers or installers of Windows, Doors and Conservatories? How can you find them?

Windowbase has the only known database of fabricators and installers in the Republic of Ireland - and this was re-launched in 2009 after extensive research. You can also add on records from the Northern Ireland region of our UK database, to target the whole of Ireland.

Both the Republic and Northern Ireland are quite different from the UK mainland. For a start, the population - and window companies - are far more spread out. There is also considerable cross-border trade between the north and south - and a growing trend within the Republic of Ireland to import complete windows from mainland Europe. So unless you know where to find firms - and you chase them for orders – you will be missing an important market.

What do I need?

To sell effectively, you need a minimum of the company name and address, a contact name (even if it is not the right one for you, asking or mailing a known contact establishes your credibility), and a telephone number. An indication of how up to date the details are may help, you get that, too, with the Windowbase 12 and 22 carat selections. Enough to launch a mailing shot with a telephone follow up. To target your potential customers precisely by activity you will need the 22 carat selection.

You need to be clear who you are looking for. Fabricators, Installers or what? Then you must know how many there are. On this will depend how many sales people to deploy, and where best to deploy them. It may be better to mail them, follow up with a telesales call and then send a sales person to demonstrate and clinch the sale.

Or you may wish to ensure that the sales force are achieving a call rate that maximises their face to face selling time. To do this you must arrange for the sales force to be equipped with the best information around.

There are 759 window & conservatory companies on the Irish Republic database and 300* in Northern Ireland. These divide by material (Irish Republic / Northern Ireland):

• PVC-U: 502 / 183
• Wood: 338 / 134
• Aluminium: 225 / 76

(some may use more than one material).

Or by activity, the companies contacted claim to (Irish Republic / Northern Ireland):

• Fabricate: 329 / 141
• Install 675 / 240

(some both fabricate and install).

The above figures will vary a little over time.

What is provided?

The full (22 carat) information includes:

Company name	Alternative names
Address	Postcode
Senior contact	Job title
Telephone number**	Email address
Fax number**	(**from the UK and within the Republic)
Make windows/doors	Make conservatories
Materials used to make	Installed materials
System profile names	Types of market served
Employee numbers	Installation team numbers
Date of validation

Please note that some fields are missing information, where companies declined to answer.

How fresh is the data?

Each record contains the date when we last confirmed the details. This is unique to Windowbase. It is your assurance of quality. Where difficulty has been experienced in contacting the company recently, you are told.

*Data for the Republic of Ireland was fully researched in spring 2009 and that for Northern Ireland is researched continuously.

How can I get this information?

From Windowbase - either order online or call us to arrange delivery.