UK business email lists by trade (2026)
By Louis-Marie Giudicenti. Published . Updated . Data read .
Primavera publishes the 10 largest business email lists in the UK, counted on Google Maps on November 9, 2026: from 58,490 marketing and advertising agencies to 177,815 restaurants. Together they hold 244,740 listings with an email; across all 5,740,526 UK businesses on Google Maps, 27.7% have one.
- 5,740,526
- UK businesses on Google Maps
- 27.7%
- of them with an email address
- 40.1%
- of charities and associations have an email, the highest of the 10
- 289
- lists pass our thresholds; the 10 largest have a page
Source: Primavera’s database of Google Maps listings, snapshot 2026-11, read November 9, 2026.
Charities and associations publish an email most often, doctors and medical clinics least
Each list links to its own page: the count by nation, the ad tags on their websites, their ratings, the same list in other countries and what it costs.
| # | List | Listings | With an email | Share with an email | vs all UK (pts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charities and associations | 86,939 | 34,829 | 40.1% | +12.4 pts |
| 2 | Business consultants | 60,333 | 24,104 | 40.0% | +12.3 pts |
| 3 | Photographers | 60,041 | 22,841 | 38.0% | +10.3 pts |
| 4 | Marketing and advertising agencies | 58,490 | 21,676 | 37.1% | +9.4 pts |
| 5 | Building contractors | 82,902 | 28,774 | 34.7% | +7.0 pts |
| 6 | Restaurants | 177,815 | 48,963 | 27.5% | −0.2 pts |
| 7 | Beauty salons | 88,521 | 22,285 | 25.2% | −2.5 pts |
| 8 | Garages and car repair | 70,359 | 17,005 | 24.2% | −3.5 pts |
| 9 | Clothing shops | 59,560 | 13,887 | 23.3% | −4.4 pts |
| 10 | Doctors and medical clinics | 73,618 | 10,376 | 14.1% | −13.6 pts |
All UK businesses: 27.7% with an email
Restaurants are the largest list, with 48,963 listings with an email. In share, charities and associations lead at 40.1%, 12.4 points above the UK average, and doctors and medical clinics close the table at 14.1%.
Source: Primavera, November 9, 2026. A business counts in a list by its main Google Maps category, or by another of its categories when the main one is generic.
How the 10 lists were chosen among 289
A list has a page when it counts at least 2,000 listings, at least 10% of them with an email, and enough nations with 50 listings or more; 289 UK lists pass, and the 10 largest that businesses actually sell to have a page. Farms are the largest list held back by the email threshold: 43,689 listings, only 7.4% with an email. Logistics and freight companies (69,774 listings) pass, but 6,535 of them are DHL Express points, the outlets of one network rather than companies to sell to, so marketing and advertising agencies take their place.
- The same directory for Canada, and the US lists by trade.
Questions
Can I get one of these lists for a single nation?
Yes. Each search can be narrowed to a nation, a city or a radius before you export, and the count shows before you pay; each list page gives the count nation by nation, restaurants first with 177,815 listings in the UK.
Why is there no UK list for a trade I sell to?
Only the 10 largest of the 289 UK lists that pass our thresholds have a page. Every other trade can still be searched and exported in Primavera, with its exact count shown first.
Method and data
Snapshot 2026-11, read November 9, 2026- What is counted
- Open businesses on Google Maps in the UK that Primavera has collected: 5,740,526 listings in all, read on November 9, 2026.
- Lists
- Each list is a set of Google Maps categories, named on its page with what it leaves out.
- Emails
- Found on the business’s own website, or in open data such as Overture Maps.
- Role addresses such as noreply@ are never counted, nor addresses shared by many unrelated businesses.
- Sources
- How Primavera’s data is built: definitions, checks and limits.
- Cite this page
- Louis-Marie Giudicenti (2026). “UK business email lists by trade (2026).” Primavera. Data: snapshot 2026-11, November 9, 2026. https://primaverapp.com/en/email-lists/uk
Written by Louis-Marie Giudicenti
Founder of Primavera. Primavera sells lists of local businesses built from the same database.
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