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WHOBUYS PRINT — UK PRINT BUYER INTELLIGENCE

Every buyer
worth
calling.

DRAG THE SPEND THRESHOLD 7,698 organisations above £40k
£40,000£2,000,000

Indicative distribution, to show how the index narrows. Every record clears £40,000 modelled annual spend without exception; the median is £283,000.

7,698 UK organisations that commission print at volume across 181 categories — large-format and display buyers, plus 293 premium packaging brands. Each with a contact route, a modelled annual spend range, and the role that holds the budget.

7,698
ORGANISATIONS
£2.36bn
AGGREGATE MODELLED SPEND
£283k
MEDIAN PER ORGANISATION
181
CATEGORIES
THE DATA ITSELF

The six largest spenders in the index.

Copied straight out of the file — same fields, same figures, same formatting you receive.

MASTER INDEX — EXTRACT LIVE EXTRACT
ORGANISATIONCATEGORYHQMODELLED RANGE (MIN – AVG)BUDGET HOLDER
Tesco PLCSupermarkets & Grocery RetailWelwyn Garden City£9.00m – £13.50mHead of Retail Marketing
J Sainsbury plcSupermarkets & Grocery RetailLondon£6.30m – £9.90mMarketing Operations Director
Asda Stores LtdSupermarkets & Grocery RetailLeeds£4.50m – £7.65mProcurement Manager - Marketing
Wm Morrison SupermarketsSupermarkets & Grocery RetailBradford£3.15m – £5.40mHead of Commercial Print
Aldi Stores UKSupermarkets & Grocery RetailAtherstone£2.70m – £4.95mBuying Director - Marketing
Lidl Great Britain LtdSupermarkets & Grocery RetailLondon£2.52m – £4.50mHead of Marketing Operations
7,692 FURTHER ORGANISATIONS · 181 CATEGORIES
COVERAGE

181 categories. Real counts, not round numbers.

Print spend follows scale — site count, branch count, brand portfolio. These are the largest categories with their real record counts, plus the packaging segment; 162 more sit behind them.

DELIVERY SPECIFICATION

Format
XLSX & CSV
Organisations
7,698
Categories
181
Minimum spend
£40,000
Fields per record
9
Website coverage
100%
Telephone coverage
81%
Print suppliers
Excluded
Delivery
On cleared payment
CATEGORYRECORDS · MODELLED RANGE
Local government & unitary authorities342 · £72k – £658k
Healthcare trusts, hospitals & clinics210 · £52k – £693k
Universities & higher education118 · £40k – £630k
Football clubs & stadium venues112 · £44k – £665k
Country house hotels & historic estates97 · £60k – £560k
Regional food mills, dairies & confectioners96 · £44k – £665k
Trade associations & professional institutes88 · £76k – £665k
Estate agency & lettings networks333 · £40k – £380k
Shopping centres53 · £44k – £160k
Agricultural machinery & farm supplies50 · £44k – £665k
Agricultural shows & rural estates50 · £40k – £560k
Premium packaging brands293 · 21 CATEGORIES
166 further categories5,838 RECORDS
DATASET

Nine fields. Enough to open a conversation.

Delivered as a structured spreadsheet, ready to import straight into a CRM.

FIELD 01

Organisation name

Registered or trading name, as the buyer would recognise it.

FIELD 02

Category

The sector classification and the qualification rule it met.

FIELD 03

HQ town or city

Head office location, for territory and route planning.

FIELD 04

Main telephone

Switchboard number where held on public record.

FIELD 05

Website

Primary domain, for research before the first approach.

FIELD 06

Modelled minimum

The lower bound of estimated annual large-format spend.

FIELD 07

Modelled average

The mid-point estimate, for ranking and prioritisation.

FIELD 08

Budget holder role

The job title most likely to control print and signage spend.

FIELD 09

Likely requirement

The type of large-format work the organisation typically commissions.

METHODOLOGY

How the numbers are modelled — and what they are not.

No organisation publishes its print budget. Rather than invent false precision, every record carries a modelled range derived from the scale of its estate.

01

Estate scale

Site count, branch count, pupil roll or portfolio size, taken from public listings and published information. This is the primary driver — spend on signage, wayfinding and campaign graphics scales with the number of locations that need them.

02

Category banding

Within each category, organisations are banded by scale and assigned a range calibrated to that band, rather than each figure being set independently.

03

Applied pricing knowledge

Every range is sense-checked against real production pricing, so the output stays grounded rather than theoretical. Print, signage and exhibition suppliers are excluded throughout — a print company should be buying a list of buyers, not competitors.

Stated plainly. Spend figures are directional guidance for prioritising outreach — not verified financial data, and not disclosed by the organisations listed. No individual figure is represented as confirmed or guaranteed accurate for that organisation.
Two kinds of print buyer, and many buy both. Most of the index buys large-format — signage, wayfinding, retail display, campaign posters and banners. A further 293 records are consumer brands whose spend also runs to cartons, rigid boxes and labels: fragrance, cosmetics, spirits, confectionery, consumer electronics, craft drinks, homeware, toys and subscription boxes. The national FMCG and beauty groups sit in both camps — heavy POS, window and campaign print alongside their packaging. The category column tells you which is which.
HOW A LICENCE IS AGREED

Four steps. Data reviewed before money moves.

01

Sample review

A 100-record sample in the delivered format, so quality is judged before any commercial talk.

02

Scope call

A short call to confirm territory, exclusivity, and which licence fits your use.

03

Agreement

A written licence covering usage rights, exclusivity and data handling, signed before delivery.

04

Delivery

The full index delivered on cleared payment, in the agreed format.

LICENSING

Four ways to license the index.

ENTRY

Mixed monthly

£650/mo
£3.25 PER RECORD
  • 200 organisations a month, across every category
  • Cancel any month — no minimum term
  • Sized for one salesperson to work through in a month
  • Everything paid credited against an upgrade
ROLLING MONTHLY · RUNS UP TO 12 MONTHS / 2,400 RECORDS

Sector slice

£4,500
£3.00 PER RECORD
  • 1,500 organisations
  • One category or one region
  • Chosen on the scope call
  • Credited against a later full licence
1,500 RECORDS

Sector pack

£9,500
£2.38 PER RECORD
  • 4,000 organisations
  • Categories of your choice
  • Regional filtering available
  • Credited against a later full licence
4,000 RECORDS
BEST VALUE PER RECORD

Full index

£15,000
£1.95 PER RECORD
  • All 7,698 organisations
  • Every category, whole of the UK
  • Exclusive UK rights available
  • Not licensed to a competing UK print business for the term

The complete UK buyer map for suppliers who want to prioritise the accounts most worth winning.

7,698 RECORDS

The rate falls as the commitment rises — £3.25 per organisation month to month, £1.95 across the full index. Final terms depend on exclusivity, territory and intended use, and are confirmed on the scope call before anything is signed.

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WHY IT EXISTS

Built for a more focused sales pipeline.

WhoBuys is designed to reduce broad, speculative prospecting and help sales teams concentrate their time on organisations with meaningful likely demand.

What a good result looks like. A useful licence should produce a tighter target-account list, better-informed first conversations, and a clearer view of where sales time is most likely to pay back.
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