How to build a relevant Irish manufacturing target-account list

Original fictional brief: use this pattern, replacing each rule before researching:

• Supplier: an invented supplier of production-workstation fixtures, exploring metal-fabrication manufacturers.
• Must-have activity: the company operates production making fabricated metal components. Design-only businesses and stockists without production are outside this brief.
• Territory: production in the Republic of Ireland. A sales address alone does not meet the rule; specify a different geography explicitly if needed.
• Counting unit: one company account, with relevant facilities noted underneath. Brands and sites are not automatically separate companies.
• Exclusions: existing accounts, agreed channel conflicts and businesses meeting the excluded activity rules.
• Acceptance evidence: support for company identity, relevant production and its location; resolved exclusions and source-use posture. Missing material evidence means hold.

An active or upcoming project is not required for an industry-matched account, also called Look Alike. Do not add a project requirement halfway through screening because an announcement is easier to find than activity evidence.

Turn the brief into questions: “Who makes fabricated metal components?” and “Where does that production take place?” Try activity-and-location combinations such as "metal fabrication" "Ireland" manufacturing, then inspect the relevant activity and facility pages. These are suggested searches, not tested coverage claims.

If permitted for the intended use, company websites, industry directories and membership pages can provide discovery routes. Before retaining source-derived information, check access conditions and the applicable source/item-use terms. Do not export a directory or reproduce its member list on the assumption that a public page is reusable.

Record each candidate's discovery route. Search-result wording is a pointer to inspect, not an acceptance record. Read the underlying page and retain only permitted evidence necessary to test the brief, with its URL, publication date if known, actual review date and limitations.

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.

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.

1. workstation fixture suppliers Ireland describes sellers of fixtures, not the intended customer activity. Try the untested query fabricated metal components production Republic of Ireland, then inspect results against the brief. This is not a coverage claim.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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.

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.

Create a provisional record while identity is unresolved. Ask whether an activity statement describes the named company, its parent, a trading brand or one facility. Record the relationship you can support; do not invent the operator from a shared name or website.

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.

For a company-level brief, consolidate confirmed duplicate references while preserving site-specific evidence. Do not merge separate subsidiaries merely because they share a group name. If the relationship cannot be resolved within the agreed research scope, keep the candidate held rather than inflating the list.

Original exclusion checklist: work through these questions before adding an account to the included list:

• Activity: is the required production positively supported? Evidence of an excluded activity supports rejection; missing detail supports a hold, not an invented negative fact.
• Location: is relevant production in scope, rather than only an office or sales presence?
• Identity: can the activity and location be attributed to the company being counted?
• Conflicts: has the candidate been checked against the agreed existing-account and channel exclusions?
• Evidence: are material contradictions resolved and source/customer-use rights suitable for the intended output?
• Duplication: is this a new company or another reference to an existing record?

Record the failed or unresolved rule. Do not use a score to override it.

Fictional throughout: these invented statements describe no researched companies or client results. No live source or review date exists for them.

Include — Fictional Fabricator A. Invented evidence attributes two Irish fabrication workshops to the same company and confirms the required production. Exclusions and permitted-use checks are stipulated as passed within the fiction. Include one company, noting both sites—not two accounts. Equipment compatibility and purchasing need remain unknown.

Hold — Fictional Manufacturing Brand B. An invented group page mentions Irish manufacturing, but does not identify which company operates the site; another invented page describes the brand's sales office. Neither resolves the operator. Hold pending company-to-site attribution; do not count the brand and parent separately or reject solely because details are missing.

Reject — Fictional Components Stockist C. Its invented activity statement explicitly describes resale of bought-in components without manufacturing. That fails the production rule even though its catalogue uses the right product words. Reject for this brief, not for every possible supplier.

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.

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 core decision aid is in the table above; no download or form is required to use it.

Inspect the fictional account sample and its blank account worksheet and field dictionary alongside this brief and checklist. The research method explains evidence classes; the industrial account-research service explains scope. A completed worksheet is not delivery approval or authority to contact anyone.

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]

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