SIC Codes In English!

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

Does anyone have or can point me to a list of SIC codes with a smaller/simpler business description style?

People do not look for businesses using the description style SIC uses, so I am looking for something that can bring the description to a more human friendly style, condensing the options down dramatically!

 

[Carl Nixon]

SIC Codes are the bane of my life at work, especially when trying to get people to classify their own companies.

Is your end goal gathering data from customers?

We ended up using a different method (rewriting the list in "English" or trying to shorten the list didn't work for us). When customers fill their details on our website, it looks the company up at Companies House and scrapes their SIC code from there. If the company cant be found on the Companies House website, it looks the company up on a credit checking website. 95% Of the time it will find the SIC code automatically. That left us with just 5% to manually check

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

Hi Carl,

I have the data as it is for a directory.

I need to categorise a big list of businesses into a friendlier format. Sole traders will want to use plainer descriptions and, sadly, real people do not search for businesses in the SIC format!