A practical guide for industrial suppliers
How to build an Irish manufacturing account list that explains every inclusion.
Start with the work a company performs, where that work happens and why it matters to your supplier brief. Then check the company behind the activity before counting it. A list of names or matching product words cannot answer those questions on its own.
The result should separate companies you can include under the brief, candidates that need another check and businesses excluded for a stated reason. Keep relevant sites beneath the company record. An active project is not required for an industry-matched account.
This guide teaches the method; it does not supply a verified directory, personal contacts or current purchasing requirements. The worked example below is wholly fictional.
How many manufacturing businesses are there in Ireland?
The CSO reports 19,617 active manufacturing enterprises in Ireland for 2024, classified under NACE Rev. 2 section C. The release was published on 6 October 2026; the count describes 2024, not a live 2026 market census.[1][2]
For an industrial supplier, this is a starting point for choosing the scope of a company list—not the number of prospects you can buy. It does not identify individual factories, businesses that match your product range or companies planning to purchase equipment.
How company size changes the research brief
Within that manufacturing total, 17,137 enterprises were in the under-10 persons-engaged band. Combining the other published bands gives 2,480 with 10 or more and 814 with 50 or more.[1]
| Persons engaged: published size band | Active manufacturing enterprises, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Under 10 | 17,137 |
| 10–19 | 924 |
| 20–49 | 742 |
| 50–249 | 618 |
| 250 and over | 196 |
| All size bands | 19,617 |
Source: CSO BRA31, statistic BRA31C01, Manufacturing (C), reference year 2024.[1]
Use the source's size measure, not an assumed current payroll count. The CSO's employment explanation includes employees, proprietors and family members; these bands should not silently become “verified employee counts” in a sales brief.[3]
The commercial decision is whether size is a real requirement for your offer. If you supply a specialist workshop or machine builder, do not exclude a small business merely to make the list look more substantial. If your offer requires a particular operating scale, define that requirement and investigate it directly. A larger workforce does not establish the relevant process, installed equipment, budget or purchasing authority.
Choose the manufacturing segment before asking for volume
The selected activity groups below show how much the statistical population changes with the brief. The 10+ and 50+ columns are sums of published size bands, not recommended targeting thresholds.[1]
| Selected NACE Rev. 2 activity | All sizes | 10+ persons engaged | 50+ persons engaged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food products, beverages and tobacco — C10–C12 | 2,434 | 530 | 226 |
| Chemicals and chemical products — C20 | 494 | 81 | 39 |
| Basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations — C21 | 256 | 82 | 59 |
| Rubber and plastic products — C22 | 484 | 144 | 54 |
| Basic metals and fabricated metal products — C24–C25 | 3,933 | 391 | 95 |
| Electrical equipment — C27 | 305 | 61 | 19 |
| Machinery and equipment n.e.c. — C28 | 725 | 167 | 59 |
| Repair and installation of machinery and equipment — C33 | 2,028 | 121 | 30 |
Source: CSO BRA31, active enterprises, 2024. This is a selection of manufacturing groups, not an exhaustive sector breakdown. The 50+ column is contained within 10+, which is contained within All sizes; do not add those columns together.[1]
Keep the group boundaries intact. 2,434 is not a food-and-beverage-only count, and 3,933 is not a fabricated-metal-only count. C33 also sits within the manufacturing classification in this dataset: the overall manufacturing total is not a count solely of businesses making new products.[1]
These figures use NACE Rev. 2. Do not silently relabel them as Rev. 2.1 to match a newer classification reference elsewhere in this guide.[1]
These are aggregate statistics, not company names, personal contacts or researched leads. The original CSO table is linked in the references below; use it to inspect the underlying activity labels and published size bands.[1]
Turn the market context into the right account request
Choose the decision that fits how you sell:
- Production equipment or process services: define the work that must happen at the customer's operation. Use the relevant statistical group as context, then require evidence of that activity and location. For food-sector work, the maker, brand and packer guide addresses the operating distinction.
- Components sold to equipment builders: specify the equipment being built and your intended component route. Do not use the whole C28 total as a count of compatible OEMs. The OEM account-research guide owns that next decision.
- Parts or services sold through maintenance businesses: decide whether you want the operator or a separate service company. The MRO account-research guide separates the service scope from parts responsibility. A C33 count does not establish that a business currently needs new parts or services.
Cork or Limerick: machinery builders or repair businesses?
For 2024, CSO table BRA34 records 71 active enterprises in Cork and 27 in Limerick under Manufacture of Machinery and Equipment n.e.c. (C28), compared with 272 and 100 respectively under Repair and Installation of Machinery and Equipment (C33). These are enterprise counts, not factory counts or a current prospect directory.[8]
Choose the activity before comparing territories. A brief for machinery builders is different from one for repair and installation businesses. C33's place within manufacturing does not make a repair-only business a machinery builder. Neither count establishes component compatibility or purchasing responsibility.
The CSO's county breakdown is approximate and based on Revenue-registered addresses, not necessarily where businesses operate.[3] For an illustrative Limerick operating-site brief, a Cork-registered company could still qualify if its relevant machinery-building operation is in Limerick; a Limerick registration alone does not establish a factory. Both cases need separate company-to-site evidence.
Make that distinction explicit in the ICP brief, for example:
Illustrative instruction: research companies operating machinery-building facilities in Cork or Limerick. Count each company once, retain its qualifying facilities beneath it, and exclude repair-only work. Keep unresolved operating locations outside the accepted count.
Do not divide an operating-site shortlist by 27 and call it Limerick market coverage: the reference year, activity, location basis and counting unit must match first. The statistical count is context, not promised deliverable volume.
What should you ask DemandRange for? A bounded manufacturing-account research scope around your range, required activity and territory. Include a size condition only if it matters commercially, and say whether the research should count companies or facilities. The deliverable count must follow the agreed scope and evidence—not a percentage of the national total. An active project is not required for every industry-matched account.[7]
Request a manufacturing research scope. Start with a non-sensitive outline; no customer list is needed. Coverage, fields, timing, price and acceptance terms are agreed separately. Named contacts and outreach are not included by default.[7]
Statistical source and reuse
Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, Business in Ireland 2024 — Insights on the Lifecycle of Businesses, table BRA31: Business Demography NACE Rev 2, statistic BRA31C01: Active Enterprises. Reference year: 2024. Release: 6 October 2026. Accessed: 18 October 2026.[1][2]
County selection: CSO BRA34: Business Demography, statistic BRA34C01: Active Enterprise, unit Number, reference year 2024; updated 6 October 2026; accessed 18 October 2026. Only the Cork and Limerick C28 and C33 cells are selected; no county totals or growth rates are inferred.[8]
© Government of Ireland. CSO statistical information is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).[4][5] DemandRange selected the activity groups and county/activity cells, shortened display labels without changing their scope, and summed published bands for the 10+ and 50+ columns. The linked CSO source tables provide the original activity labels and size bands. The attributed statistics and these regroupings remain available under CC BY 4.0; this website's general reuse restrictions do not apply to that material. No CSO endorsement is implied. The commercial interpretation is DemandRange's own guidance, not a CSO assessment of sales opportunities.
Start with a brief you can actually apply.
Use this invented example as a pattern, not a pre-approved market:
We supply production-workstation fixtures and want to research companies making fabricated metal components at production sites in the Republic of Ireland. Count each company once, with its qualifying sites recorded beneath it. Exclude design-only businesses, stockists without production, existing accounts and agreed channel conflicts. Require support for company identity, production activity and production location. A project announcement is not required.
Replace the product range, activity, territory and exclusions before using the pattern. “Ireland” should not silently switch between the Republic, the island, an operating site and a sales territory. If those choices are not settled, use the industrial ICP brief first.
What a completed shortlist explanation looks like.
Every business, evidence statement and outcome in this example is invented. No real source was retrieved.
Fabricator A — Include one company, with two sites noted
The invented evidence supports the required Irish production at two workshops belonging to A; the other required checks are stipulated satisfied. Equipment compatibility and purchasing need remain unknown.
Manufacturing Brand B — Hold
A group description mentions Irish manufacturing, but the company operating the site is not identified. Ask which entity performs the qualifying activity and where. Do not count the brand and parent as separate accounts.
Components Stockist C — Exclude for this brief
Its invented activity statement expressly describes resale without manufacturing. The production condition fails, even if its catalogue contains the right product words.
This is a demonstration of decisions, not a live prospect list or a measured service result. In real work, each inclusion needs its own permitted evidence. A project-signal record would require separate evidence of a relevant development; ordinary account fit does not.
Build the list in six decisions.
1. Search for the customer's activity.
Search for the manufacturing work your brief requires, rather than only the product you sell. For the fictional brief, an exploratory query is "metal fabrication" "Ireland" manufacturing. It is a starting prompt, not a tested coverage filter.
Inspect the underlying activity and location pages. Search-result wording can suggest a candidate; it is not sufficient evidence to accept one.
2. Check what the company actually does.
Does the evidence describe production by this company, a product it resells, work performed by a customer, or activity somewhere else in its group? Record the supported activity and its limits. A statement about supplying manufacturers does not establish that the supplier is a manufacturer.
3. Connect the activity to an in-scope site and company.
Identify the operating business behind the production description. A registered address or sales office is not automatically a production location. Do not count a parent, trading label and workshop as three companies, or merge distinct companies merely because they share a group name.
If the relationship remains unresolved, retain the question and hold the affected account decision. The identity-map instructions provide optional detail for more complex cases.
4. Apply the agreed exclusions and evidence rules.
Check the same version of the brief for every candidate. Resolve existing-account and channel restrictions in your controlled workflow. Do not send confidential customer lists through a public enquiry.
Record the source reference, publication date where known, actual check date and the precise fact it supports. Check the source and item's permitted use before retaining or sharing content. A public page does not automatically permit redistribution.
5. Make the decision and keep its reason.
Include only when the required identity, activity, territory, exclusion and evidence-use checks are satisfied. Hold a material gap or conflict with a specific next question. Exclude a supported mismatch against the brief; missing information is not the same as a negative finding.
6. Count companies, then hand over the open work.
Keep included, held and rejected records separate. Reconcile included company counts after deduplication; give each hold one next verification question. Stop at the agreed research boundary and disclose unresolved coverage rather than filling a quota with weaker matches.
Once a batch has been assembled, work through the fictional prospect-list audit to preserve site evidence, resolve duplicate references and reconcile its company-level handoff.
Already have an account list? Use the industrial prospect-list refresh checklist to review company, site and brief changes without losing the earlier evidence.
Take the next step that matches your task.
- Need to see the record format: inspect the fictional account sample and blank worksheet.
- Need a sector-specific distinction: use the food maker/brand/packer guide or pharmaceutical account guide.
If you want analyst-supported research, request a written scope. Describe your range, required company activity, territory, counting unit and exclusions at a non-sensitive level. Fields, coverage, timing, price and acceptance terms must be agreed; named contacts and outreach are separate scopes.
Download the evidence-question log (CSV): five prompt rows, no researched accounts or prefilled evidence. Duplicate a prompt per candidate and source. Record the source URL, publication date if known, actual check date, intended use and applicable terms, permitted observation, remaining gap and next action. Mark question status open, supported, conflicting or blocked—not account acceptance. Leave unsupported fields blank; retain no source content while rights are unresolved. This educational log is not a delivery specification or outreach permission. The optional evidence-question matrix below can help with a specific gap; no download or form is required to use it.
Optional detail: source questions, identity maps and sector practice
You can complete the brief, six decisions and shortlist explanation without the field dictionary. Use these modules when a specific source, relationship or sector description needs a closer check.
Choose a source for a missing fact · Identity-map fields · Fictional pharma-description practice
Optional: choose and question the evidence source.
Choose a source for the missing fact
Our recommended workflow: use the question you cannot yet answer to choose the next check—not to accept an account. Keep the brief fixed. These source classes are suggestions, not promises of completeness, accuracy or reuse permission. Check the applicable source and item terms for your intended use before retaining content; if permission is unresolved, leave the observation blank and resolve that first.
On a small screen, scroll the table horizontally or focus its region and use the arrow keys to read every column.
| Question | Where to check; what to record | If the answer is missing |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 · Candidate discovery | Inspect the underlying page behind a search result, directory or association entry. Record why the organisation might be a customer rather than a supplier, intermediary or competitor. | Keep it provisional. A category label alone is not an inclusion reason. |
| Q2 · Organisation identity | Compare relevant official identity information with company-owned pages. Record the supported legal-entity, trading-brand and group relationship. | Hold unresolved identity; use the company/brand/site rules above. Registration alone does not establish production. |
| Q3 · Actual activity | Inspect a relevant activity description that you may use. Record whether it supports making, operating, integrating or distributing—not just a sector label. | Hold missing activity evidence. Reject only when supported facts fail the brief, using the exclusion checklist. |
| Q4 · Company or facility | Check location and identity evidence together. Record which organisation operates the relevant site and whether the brief counts companies or facilities. | Do not count a brand, parent and site separately without resolving their relationship. |
| Q5 · Customer-route role | Inspect evidence for the role your brief requires: for example, operator, original equipment manufacturer (OEM), integrator or distributor. Record the supported role and the inclusion rule it meets. | Leave purchasing responsibility, technical suitability and live demand unknown unless separately established. |
Refine the question, not just the list size
Fictional exercise: all wording below is invented; no search or source check was performed. Keep the guide’s brief: companies producing fabricated metal components in the Republic of Ireland, counted once per company.
workstation fixture suppliers Irelanddescribes sellers of fixtures, not the intended customer activity. Try the untested queryfabricated metal components production Republic of Ireland, then inspect results against the brief. This is not a coverage claim.- Imagine a page says: “Our group supplies components to fabrication businesses in Ireland.” That does not establish that the group manufactures them or operates production in the Republic of Ireland.
- Log “Manufacturing activity and production location unresolved”, not “Irish manufacturer”. Next question: “Does permitted evidence attribute fabricated-metal production in the Republic of Ireland to the company being researched?” Keep it open; use the exclusion checklist before an account decision.
Use classifications as prompts. Eurostat's 2026 NACE Rev. 2.1 manual describes classification by a unit's principal activity and sets out rules for diversified activities.[8] Our practical rule is therefore to record the classification version and unit, then investigate the specific activity and site: a code is not a substitute for that check. Do not silently translate codes between versions.
Optional: resolve a complex company and site map
The Companies Registration Office's company-search guidance directs readers to CORE.[6] CRO also warns that register information is supplied by third parties and that it does not vouch for its accuracy.[5] Treat identity checking as one part of the evidence chain, not proof of manufacturing activity or permission to redistribute register documents.
Make an identity map before you count
Use three linked sheets: an entity register gives each company, group, brand, facility and project its own stable ID; a mapping sheet records a supported relationship between two IDs. An evidence register stores the exact observation or gap referenced by each entity or relationship. Keep evidence and unresolved questions on the relationship itself. A shared name is a question to resolve, not a join key.
Original, wholly fictional teaching example: Fictional Coppercloud Teaching Group contains separate Companies A and B. Company A operates two qualifying workshops; Company B operates one. A trading label points back to A. A proposed extension points to A and its existing second workshop.
- Company view: two included companies. Count distinct included company IDs; do not add the group, trading label, workshops or project.
- Facility view: three qualifying operating sites. Preserve both of A’s workshops. The proposed extension does not create a fourth operating site.
- Project view: one proposed project. Record its company and facility links separately; it adds no account and proves no purchasing requirement.
The separate Fictional Mistgear label has no resolved operator: leave its company link blank and mark it unknown. Fictional Cloudspanner Distribution Company C supplies Irish customers, but only a sales office is attributed to it. Hold its production question; neither distribution nor local sales proves or disproves production elsewhere. These unresolved records add nothing to the included count.
Get the three blank identity sheets and three separate fictional examples from the resource library. Read the field instructions and count rules below before using them.
Company, group, facility and project identity map
Original educational tool. All worked names, relationships and evidence are wholly fictional, not anonymised clients or real prospects. No live company research was performed for these rows.
Use this with step 3 of the Irish manufacturing account-research guide. It fills the space between a written brief and a batch audit: record what each thing is, which things are linked, what supports each link, and which denominator you can defend. It is not another ICP worksheet or an audit scorecard.
Start here
- Open the three blank CSVs as UTF-8, with identifiers imported as text. They contain headers only: no prefilled claims or pretend source dates. Make working copies. These sheets are manual educational templates, not a live-data approval system.
- Freeze the brief: this worked example requires fabricated-metal component production in the Republic of Ireland; count companies, not groups or sites. Exclusions and source-use reviews are stipulated in the fiction, not actually performed. No project is required.
- Create one entity row for each distinct company, group, brand, physical facility or project. Do not put a brand in the company column merely because its name looks corporate. Preserve unresolved entities rather than inventing their operators.
- Add one mapping row per relationship, with a separate evidence card for that assertion. IDs are the join keys; display names are not. Unknown targets stay empty, with
link_status=unknown, an explicit gap and a next question. - Check identity and evidence before applying fit gates. Count only eligible company rows; calculate facilities and projects as separate views. Keep non-gating questions such as purchasing authority open.
Files and ID rules
identity-entities-blank.csv
One row represents: One entity, not necessarily an account
Primary key: entity_id
identity-mapping-blank.csv
One row represents: One directional relationship assertion
Primary key: mapping_id
identity-evidence-blank.csv
One row represents: One bounded supporting observation or explicit gap
Primary key: evidence_id
The -fictional.csv counterparts are separate worked data, not values to paste into the blank files. The brief and allowed link types are fixed in these instructions.
IDs are immutable local identifiers, not registry numbers or proof of identity. The worked namespace is FIM-: G group, C company, B brand, F facility, P project; L mapping, E evidence. Preserve case and punctuation exactly. Assign an independent namespace for a separate exercise so unrelated records cannot join accidentally. Never reuse a retired ID for a different entity.
A group is a relationship container here, not a claim that a holding company has been researched. If a holding company is itself relevant, it requires its own company identity and fit evidence. A facility is a distinct physical operating site, not each building, department or postal spelling. A project is a bounded proposed/change activity; several mentions of the same project do not justify several project IDs.
Entity fields
fiction_label: standalone fiction warning on every worked row. Do not remove it or insert real prospect records into this exercise.entity_id,entity_type,display_name: unique ID, one ofgroup/company/brand/facility/project, and an unmistakably fictional label. A name does not establish identity.identity_status:supported,unknownorconflict; the last two do not support account inclusion.production_status:pass/fail/unknown/conflict/not_applicable. On a company, asks whether the required production is attributable to that company; on a facility, whether that production occurs there.failneeds a positive contradictory fact, not missing evidence.territory_status: same vocabulary. On a company, tests attributable qualifying production in the Republic of Ireland. On a facility, tests its physical location. A sales office can pass facility territory and fail facility production: that does not settle the company's production elsewhere.exclusions_status:pass/fail/unknown/conflict/not_applicable. Company-level brief exclusions must be checked separately; a group link alone is not clearance.source_use_status: in this dataset only,stipulated_pass; it is an invented teaching assumption, never real rights clearance. For authorised work, use separately reviewed states appropriate to the governing workflow, not automatic interpretation of these teaching fields.consistency_status:supportedorconflict; no material contradiction may be hidden by counting only the favourable observation.account_decision:include/hold/rejectfor companies; alwaysnot_an_accountfor all other entity types. The worked hold-first convention is local to this exercise, not a universal stopping rule.evidence_id: foreign key to a supporting invented card. The compact teaching schema uses one consolidated card per entity; retain distinct original observations in any real evidence system rather than overwriting them.unknowns,next_question: record the unresolved fact and its next bounded verification question. A non-company entity can remain unresolved without being falsely counted as a held company.
Mapping fields and permitted joins
mapping_id is unique. subject_id and a supported object_id must exist in the entity register. The permitted directions are:
member_of
Subject → object: company → group
Meaning: Group membership; does not merge companies
trading_name_of
Subject → object: brand → company
Meaning: Attributed trading label, not another account
operated_by
Subject → object: facility → company
Meaning: Supported operator at the exercise snapshot
project_of
Subject → object: project → company
Meaning: Company attribution, not buyer/procurement authority
located_at
Subject → object: project → facility
Meaning: Project location, not proof of a new operating site
link_status is supported/unknown/conflict. A supported relationship requires a nonblank target and evidence. This deliberately conservative template leaves the target blank for unknown/conflicting links; describe candidate interpretations only in the gap/evidence text until resolved. Never use a blank as a join key or convert it to an invented company ID. evidence_id points to the exact relationship card, not merely the source for one endpoint. unknowns and next_question are mandatory for unresolved links.
In this snapshot, one facility has at most one supported operator; one brand has at most one supported company; one company has at most one supported group. Joint operation, time-dependent ownership, mergers and multi-company projects require a richer dated relationship schema; hold them rather than forcing this simple model. A brand may legitimately be used by multiple companies outside this exercise; do not force a universal single-operator rule onto real data.
Evidence and unknown fields
Every worked evidence card begins Invented evidence:. source_url, source_publication_date and source_review_date are empty because no underlying sources exist. Test execution dates are not source review dates. intended_use is fictional teaching only; reuse_status is original_fiction_not_real_permission.
For an independently authorised workflow, record the source and item URL, publisher, known publication date, actual review date, precise supported assertion, limitations, intended use and applicable rights decision. Public access is not reuse permission. Do not retain third-party content while its use is unresolved. Unknown is not false; not_applicable is not unknown. Separate source assertions, analyst inferences and unresolved questions. No personal contacts belong in this tool.
Work the cases, then reconcile
A — Multi-site, same company. FIM-F01 and FIM-F02 link to FIM-C01. The trading label FIM-B01 also links to C01. Count one company and two qualifying sites, not four accounts.
B — Same group, different companies. FIM-C01 and FIM-C02 both link to FIM-G01. Keep the two distinct companies; C02 adds FIM-F03 as another qualifying site. Shared membership is not a duplicate rule.
C — Brand versus operator. FIM-B02 and FIM-F05 have unresolved company links. Do not join them by similar wording, and do not assert that the two unresolved references are two distinct companies. They contribute zero included accounts and zero qualifying attributed sites.
D — Distribution versus Irish production. FIM-C03 is resolved as a company, but supplying Irish customers and operating sales office FIM-F04 leave relevant production unresolved. Hold C03. The sales office is not a qualifying manufacturing facility. Do not silently recast this as the earlier guide's positive resale-only rejection case.
E — Project, not extra account. FIM-P01 points to company C01 and existing site F02. This gives one project linked to an already counted company, not another account or another operational facility. Its proposed status proves no live purchasing requirement.
Count conventions
- Included companies: distinct company IDs with
account_decision=include, all required gates passed, and at least one supported operator link from a qualifying facility. The worked result is 2. - Qualifying facilities under included companies: distinct facility IDs with passing production and physical territory, supported identity and operator link to an included company. The worked result is 3. Do not count a sales office, unresolved site or proposed extension as qualifying production.
- Represented groups: distinct group targets of supported membership links from the included companies: 1, reported separately. Unknown group membership is not an independent group.
- Projects linked to included companies: distinct project IDs with supported company links: 1, reported separately, not added to the company count. No project is required for either included company.
- Held resolved companies: 1 (C03). Unresolved brand/site references stay in the relationship queue and must not inflate this denominator.
- Unresolved mapping assertions: 2 (L04 and L09). These are work items, not two additional companies.
Never add the company, group, brand, facility and project counts together and label the result “accounts”. A resolved-company inventory is also not the same as an included-company view. These are within-exercise counts, not global CRM deduplication or coverage claims.
Reconcile the sheets manually
- Check that every entity_id, mapping_id and evidence_id is unique within its own sheet. Use identifiers as text.
- For every supported relationship, find its subject and object in the entity sheet and check the permitted direction/type above. Never join blank unknown targets.
- Read the exact evidence card for each entity and relationship. A valid ID does not prove that the statement supports the named subject, relationship, location or time. Do not swap cards merely because both IDs exist.
- Verify the count views above independently. Retain C01 and C02 separately despite shared group membership; count C01 only once despite two workshops and a trading label.
- Record unresolved assertions as questions. This exercise's included counts are stipulated fictional outcomes, not approval of an actual prospect batch.
No code, macros, network connection, personal contacts or automated pass score is supplied. Keep your working copies locally. Completing these sheets establishes no source-use permission, equipment suitability, outreach authority or commercial acceptance.
All worked names and evidence are invented; source URLs and source dates are deliberately blank. The included counts above are stipulated fictional outcomes. These sheets support identity resolution, not acceptance of an actual account batch, technical suitability, delivery approval or contact permission. Apply the exclusion checklist in step 4 before accepting an account.
For a food-and-beverage brief
Need to distinguish making from packing or a product brand from the business performing the work? Use the food and beverage account-segmentation guide. Its fictional cases show how a facility-operator requirement changes the result without implying equipment demand.
Pharma account research: test a description before assigning an operating segment
Original fictional exercise for Irish pharma and biopharma account research. This is a supplement to the manufacturing guide, not a sector directory or an interpretation of pharmaceutical regulation. Every company, site, description and decision below is invented. None is an anonymised prospect.
Set the physical-work rule without defining a legal category
For this exercise only, the brief seeks companies themselves physically making an invented medicine at a site in the Republic of Ireland. Packing already-made goods, testing supplied samples, storing goods and office administration alone do not meet this particular brief. These are invented commercial screening rules, not definitions of manufacture or conclusions about authorisations. A different supplier may deliberately choose one of the excluded activities.
Count one company, preserving its separate activity records. No project is required for this industry-matched, or Look Alike, exercise. Identity, exclusions and source-use checks for real account acceptance remain outside the fictional activity screen.
Work the invented cards
Use the fictional cards before opening the answer key. Each card is a teaching stipulation, not a source quotation. The exercise includes a role-only description, an office, distribution-only work, laboratory-only work, packing-only work, a mixed company, overseas production with an Irish office, and conflicting descriptions.
For Fictional Pharma F, one card stipulates physical making at an invented Republic of Ireland site, while another describes its separate office. The production card meets the activity/place screen; the office adds no company. For Fictional Pharma A, a role-only card leaves physical work unresolved. Keep A held rather than calling it either a producer or a non-producer.
For Fictional Pharma H, the invented descriptions disagree about physical making at the same site. Do not select the favourable sentence. Preserve the conflict and ask which description applies to the present scope. No regulatory determination follows from that conflict.
Complete the worksheet
The blank worksheet has headers only. Give each card a unique ID and each company a stable ID. Record the description’s purpose, the permitted observation, the activity and location it supports, its limit and the next evidence question. Leave unknown fields blank rather than inserting a guessed operator or date. Store evidence references separately from your screening judgement.
Choose match only for supported in-scope physical making; out_of_scope only for positive facts contradicting the activity or territory rule; otherwise choose hold. A conflicting required fact also means hold. At company level, a matching operation may support the screen, but a material contradiction affecting it must be resolved first. An unrelated office record neither cancels a valid production record nor creates another account.
For live work, check each source and item’s intended-use conditions before retaining observations. Where reuse is unresolved, keep the content out of the worksheet and retain only the permitted review reference. Changing the wording is not a substitute for permission. Do not use this exercise to interpret registers, certificates, inspections or authorisation scope.
Hand over the supported activity segment and the next question—not a claim of installed equipment, technical suitability, regulatory compliance, purchasing authority or an open package. A worksheet result does not establish demand or permission to contact anyone. Use the existing company/site identity map and ICP workflow for the broader account checks.
For the broader source-record and facility-fit questions, use the Irish pharmaceutical manufacturing account-research guide. This companion rehearses fictional decisions; it does not replace that guide or clear source-use rights.
Source attribution
Eurostat / European Union, NACE Rev. 2.1 — Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Union, 2026 edition, doi:10.2785/3034037, paragraphs 59 and 70, printed pages 18 and 20. © European Union 2026. Classification context summarised/adapted under CC BY 4.0.[9] The attributed Eurostat adaptation remains available under that licence; this website's general reuse restrictions do not apply to that attributed material. The checklist and decisions are our own, not endorsed by the European Union. No third-party material reproduced.[8]
Companies Registration Office: Company Search on CORE and Disclaimer. The limited website-guidance summaries are attributed to CRO; no registry records or filings are reproduced.[6][5]
Sources accessed 30 September 2026.
References
- Companies Registration Office — Disclaimer. Accessed 30 September 2026.
- Companies Registration Office — Company Search on CORE. Accessed 30 September 2026.
- Eurostat — NACE Rev. 2.1 manual, 2026 edition, doi:10.2785/3034037. Accessed 30 September 2026.
- Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 30 September 2026.