About Us

Established in 2005, the Touch Local Group is a leading local search company that connects millions of businesses with customers every month. The Touch Local Group is backed by Balderton Capital and owns and operates touchlocal.com, Scoot and Central Index and powers business directories for The Independent, AOL, Ask Jeeves and The Sun, giving advertisers the added value of being found on multiple leading search websites. Please click here for more information about our listing products.

With our Headquarters in London, Touch Local employs over 200 people and has offices in Swindon, Birmingham, Manchester, Stockton-on-Tees and Edinburgh. Our mission is to be the UK business owners' trusted partner and the last mile for SMEs to reach local customers. With this in mind, we have developed products and services that are designed to support business owners in running and growing their companies.

Please visit our product pages to see all services that we offer.

As part of Touch Local's mission to be business owners' trusted partner, we also undertake the responsibility of being their "voice". To achieve this we conduct weekly polls about business, economic and general developments that may have an impact on their operation. We share the results with newspaper editors and publishers. Please visit our blog to find out more about our polls.

Awards

tech track Tech Track: Touch Local was officially recognised in The Sunday Times as the 29th Fastest Growing private technology company in Britain in 2010, and was also the runner up for the Best Management Award.

media momentum Media Momentum: Touch Local was ranked as one of Europe's top 50 fastest growing and most innovative digital media companies.