Five primary registers cover the Polish economy — and Apollo reads none of them natively
Poland operates the densest EU-internal industrial supply chain east of Berlin. About 5 million entities are active across the registers; roughly 500 000 are registered companies — sp. z o.o. or S.A. — and tens of thousands of those are mid-sized manufacturing, IT, logistics and agribusiness firms feeding the German, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian and domestic supply lines.
They are mapped, by name, into a tightly structured stack of five Polish registers: KRS for legal-person companies, REGON for the statistical universe, CEIDG for sole traders, NIP for tax status, and MSiG as the official gazette. Their PKD-2007 industry codes are open. Their websites are Polish-language. None of this is natively consumed by Apollo, ZoomInfo or Cognism.
Free 1-day trialThe five Polish primary sources, ranked
KRS — Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy
The national court register, holding legal-person companies (sp. z o.o., S.A., spółka komandytowa). AtlasForgeX extracts KRS number, NIP, REGON, legal form, registered seat, share capital, board members (zarząd) by name with PESEL-derived year of birth, and filed financial statements where available. The highest-signal layer for serious Polish B2B — ~500 000 companies.
REGON — statistical register at GUS
The Główny Urząd Statystyczny statistical register. Covers the full population of economic entities — companies, sole traders, public bodies. ~5 M active entries. Provides the canonical PKD-2007 industry classification per entity and the size class as reported to GUS. Used by AtlasForgeX as the cross-reference layer behind KRS.
CEIDG — sole traders
Centralna Ewidencja i Informacja o Działalności Gospodarczej — the central register of jednoosobowa działalność gospodarcza. The natural-person tier of the Polish economy, mostly invisible to LinkedIn-first tools. Useful where the target ICP is freelancers, consultants and very small operators in IT, design, accounting or logistics.
MSiG — Monitor Sądowy i Gospodarczy
The official Polish gazette, published by the Ministry of Justice. Announces incorporations, board changes, capital movements, mergers and dissolutions before they reach any private database. AtlasForgeX parses MSiG so newly incorporated sp. z o.o. in a PKD segment surface the same week they exist.
NIP + Polish-language web
NIP (Numer Identyfikacji Podatkowej) for tax-status validation — catches dormant or struck-off entities before CSV export. In parallel, live analysis of the company .pl site for kontakt, kariera, direct dial and function mailboxes, plus hiring signals from Pracuj.pl, OLX Praca, NoFluffJobs and Just Join IT (tech-specific). Analysis language: Polish only.
Where Polish demand concentrates
// Lower Silesia · Manufacturing & autoparts
The Wrocław / Wałbrzych axis is the most industrial province in Poland. Tier-1 and Tier-2 automotive suppliers, white goods, electronics assembly, and the broader DACH supply chain. PKD 29.32.Z, 27.40.Z, 28.41.Z.
// Mazowieckie · IT & services
Warsaw is the IT-services capital of CEE. Polish software houses, IT outsourcing firms, fintech, plus the regional head-offices of European tech players. PKD 62.01.Z, 62.02.Z, 64.19.Z. Dense NoFluffJobs and Just Join IT signal.
// Małopolskie & Dolnośląskie · IT clusters
Kraków, Wrocław: the deepest engineering-grade IT talent pools in the country. Polish software houses serving the EU mid-market, plus a heavy R&D presence of multinational tech firms. PKD 62.01, 62.02.
// Central corridor · Logistics
The Łódź / Stryków hub sits at the geometric centre of European road logistics. PKD 49.41.Z, 52.10.A, 52.29.C. Operators here run lean Polish-language sites and are well-mapped by KRS and MSiG but rarely by Apollo.
// East · Agribusiness
Lublin and Podlaskie host the country's deepest food-processing and agribusiness clusters, supplying both domestic retail and EU export. PKD 10.11.Z, 10.71.Z, 10.85.Z. Mostly family-held sp. z o.o. with negligible LinkedIn footprint.
// Silesia · Heavy industry & energy
Katowice, Gliwice: legacy steel, coal-transition, and now an emerging energy and BPO cluster. PKD 24.10.Z, 35.11.Z. KRS-heavy with structured size data from filed financials.
UODO, GDPR and the Polish Telecoms Law
// Legal basis for Polish B2B outreach
The lawful basis for B2B direct outreach in Poland is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest), as implemented domestically by the Personal Data Protection Act of 10 May 2018 — Ustawa o ochronie danych osobowych.
The UODO (Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych) has issued guidance permitting B2B outreach at professional addresses on the legitimate-interest basis, provided the message is function-relevant and an opt-out is available from the first contact.
Article 172 of the Polish Telecommunications Law governs direct electronic marketing. Under the prevailing UODO interpretation for B2B, soft opt-in applies to function mailboxes and function-relevant professional addresses, with mandatory unsubscribe. Role mailboxes (biuro@, sprzedaz@, zakupy@) sit outside the personal-data scope entirely.
AtlasForgeX runs every step locally on the Windows endpoint. No personal data is transferred to a third country — the Schrems II question is structurally outside scope.