TL;DR: FirmTrove counts 51,615 companies in 5 source categories for automotive: garages and car dealers. 50.3% have a website and 29.5% a business email. North Brabant is the largest province with 8,823 companies.
Key numbers
FirmTrove counts 51,615 companies in the categories that make up automotive: garages and car dealers. The operating region is known for 50,691 of them; Noord-Brabant is the largest province with 8,823 and Rotterdam the largest place with 963.
Which categories
The explorer uses the sources’ own categories; this page groups the labels that belong to this market. A company can carry more than one label, so the rows add up to more than the total. Each row opens the explorer with that category filled in.
| Source category | Companies |
|---|---|
| automotive repair | 34,458 |
| Business and Professional Services > Automotive Service > Automotive Repair Shop | 9,241 |
| car dealer | 4,803 |
| Retail > Automotive Retail > Car Dealership | 3,254 |
| gas station | 5,776 |
By province
Only companies with a derived operating region count here; the province page shows the whole province.
| Province | Companies | Share |
|---|---|---|
| North Brabant | 8,823 | 17.4% |
| South Holland | 8,062 | 15.9% |
| Gelderland | 7,563 | 14.9% |
| North Holland | 6,186 | 12.2% |
| Overijssel | 4,316 | 8.5% |
| Utrecht | 3,501 | 6.9% |
| Limburg | 3,310 | 6.5% |
| Friesland | 2,645 | 5.2% |
| Drenthe | 2,045 | 4% |
| Groningen | 1,735 | 3.4% |
| Zeeland | 1,257 | 2.5% |
| Flevoland | 1,248 | 2.5% |
The largest places
| Place | Companies |
|---|---|
| Rotterdam | 963 |
| Amsterdam | 843 |
| Den Haag | 818 |
| Apeldoorn | 545 |
| Eindhoven | 511 |
| Utrecht | 484 |
| Tilburg | 478 |
| Breda | 433 |
| Enschede | 410 |
| Groningen | 406 |
How to build this selection
Open the explorer with the category automotive_repair already filled in, refine by city, postcode or category and export the companies you need as CSV. Free has 100 rows per UTC calendar month. Pro: €29 a month excluding VAT. Start with 5,000 rows, adding 2,500 each consecutive paid month, up to 25,000 per calendar month. Pro Year: €290 excluding VAT paid upfront, with 25,000 per calendar month from day one. CSV, REST and MCP share one allowance. Every CSV row counts; a company ID delivered through REST or MCP counts once per UTC calendar month. Pro exports allow at most 5,000 rows.
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What these numbers are, and are not
Every count is an observed record in the FirmTrove database: companies that are not merged, purged or retired. It is not a census of all Dutch companies and not the trade register. The province is the derived operating region based on city or postcode; a company without that derivation is not on a province page. Categories are the literal labels the sources supply, so one company can appear under several. Cells below 25 records are not published.
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