# Company Search: how to locate a specific listed company - possible approaches

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/company-search-how-to-locate-a-specific-listed-company-possible-approaches/1216>\
**Category:** API Issues\
**Created:** [July 2, 2017, 10:18am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/company-search-how-to-locate-a-specific-listed-company-possible-approaches/1216 "2017-07-02T10:18:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/markwilliams/32/194_2.png) [@MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/MArkWilliams)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:38am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/company-search-how-to-locate-a-specific-listed-company-possible-approaches/1216/2 "2017-07-05T11:38:19Z")

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The single overriding aim of our complex search system it to find the company a customer is looking for or at least get it to be in the first 10 matches. We do not just show one company name for an exact match as customers often do not know the full company name or make a mistake with plurals or mistype and get the spelling wrong in one of the words, so we do our best to find the name they are searching for.  
I have just searched for your company with ( /search/companies?q=Vertu+Motors+Plc ) and the first match is company number 05984855. Is this the company you are looking for?  
if you know the company number of course, you can get exact matches in search and profile with /search/companies?q=05984855 and /company/05984855  
Some further related information [For search/companies query - what does it search and how](http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/for-search-companies-query-what-does-it-search-and-how/1007)

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