
Occupiers Platform
Working with economic development and growth teams, we have created a dynamic web tool, Occupiers Platform, that allows teams to respond more effectively to opportunities and challenges.
We are supporting clients with plans to deliver thousands of new jobs for residents; help deliver net zero targets; reveal supply chains for community wealth building programmes and uniquely revealing 1000s of businesses in your hidden economy.
Occupiers Overview
Forecasts
Interactive Mapping
Accounts & Directors

Features
Hyper Focused
Understand your national, regional and local business base by numbers, sectors, high streets, town centres, health, size, employees, owners, green neighbourhoods and more.
Customisable
We partner with your team and craft a platform unique to your needs to support and improve the delivery of your programmes.
Add Your Data
Combine your data with ours to further enrich your platform and enhance accuracy, improving both the data and overall user experience.
Value Model
Our value model fosters collaboration among users from different departments, by offering multiple logins and creating more cohesive programs for your communities.
Dedicated Support
IDM Resource is here to assist with your urgent strategy needs, ensuring you meet deadlines effectively. We are only a phone call away.
Purpose
Occupiers Platform has been built by data teams to leave you to focus on your job.

Occupiers Platform does more: Comprehensive Business Profiles Powered by Deep Data
IDM's Occupiers platform goes beyond simply mapping organisations; it provides a powerful tool for building comprehensive business profiles. Once the location of each organisation is precisely identified using our Occupiers dataset, we enrich that data by integrating a variety of additional datasets. This enables us to construct a detailed profile for each entity, offering deeper insights into its structure, financial health, and network of relationships. Key elements of this business profile include:
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1. Directors and Leadership Information:
Using company registration and corporate governance databases, we match each organisation with data on its directors and key decision-makers. This includes identifying current and former directors, their tenure, and any other relevant roles they may hold across different organisations. Understanding the leadership structure provides critical insight into the strategic direction and stability of a business.
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2. Financial Data:
We enrich the business profile with financial information, sourced from filings with bodies like Companies House, annual reports, and financial databases. This includes:
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Turnover, profit, and loss figures
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Balance sheets (assets, liabilities, equity)
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Growth trends over time​
Financial data allows for an assessment of the company’s economic performance and long-term viability, which is particularly valuable for clients evaluating potential partners, competitors, or investment opportunities within a region.
3. Linked Businesses and Networks:
Through cross-referencing with corporate networks and ownership data, we identify linked businesses within the borough or across the UK. This includes:
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Subsidiaries or parent companies
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Sister companies within the same corporate group
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Shared directors between businesses
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Mapping these relationships enables a better understanding of an organisation's influence and reach, as well as potential conflicts of interest or collaborative opportunities. For example, knowing that two seemingly independent businesses share common ownership or leadership can be pivotal for strategic decisions.
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4. Sectoral and Regional Insights:
By connecting this enriched data to wider regional datasets, such as industry trends, workforce demographics, or market analyses specific to the borough, we can offer insights into how the business operates within its sector and region. This can reveal how competitive or saturated a particular sector is in a given area, or how the presence of linked businesses might influence local economic dynamics.
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By combining location-specific data with director information, financials, linked business networks, and other sectoral insights, we build a holistic business profile that provides a 360-degree view of each organisation. This multi-faceted approach not only enhances the value of the data but also equips clients with the intelligence needed to make more strategic, data-driven decisions within their geographical or business area of focus.