When you need a manufacturer in Europe (a private-label cosmetics lab, a CNC machining subcontractor in Poland, an olive-oil producer in Spain), you usually start on Europages . It lists over 3 million companies, and they fill in their own profiles: products, employee count, founding year, sales area, and often their VAT number, payment terms and incoterms . The problem is the interface. You click through 30 results per page, open each profile, and copy fields into a spreadsheet by hand. ...