Check company registration details

[Will]

Somebody suggested we add this to the useful links:

http://www.cofacerating.fr/portail/recherche_entreprise_inter/recherche_entreprise.asp?IP=ECHOS

It allows you to input a company or proprietor's name and find whether proper French registration is in place, or if you know the Siret/Siren number you can check what sort of business it is registered for.

Registration of course is not a guarantee of a competent or straight-dealing artisan - and that applies to French as much as British owned businesses. But if a business is not registered, you should be asking why.

The link takes you to the French language page - there is an English version but I do not recommend this as some of the translations are a bit odd, leading you to think, wrongly, that a company may not be registered for exactly the work it carries out. Far better to use the French site and a dictionary.