{"id":189,"date":"2021-04-26T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-www.geopostcodes.com\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:01:55","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geopostcodes.com\/en-GB\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Humble beginnings: addressing postcode data needs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 2009, serial tech entrepreneur Fran\u00e7ois Lemmens founded GeoPostcodes on a simple premise: while it\u2019s quite straightforward for a business to find and integrate postal information for a couple of countries into its systems, the task quickly spins out of control as more countries are added. Every country comes with its own postal system, languages, and administrative intricacies. In addition, most regions of the world suffer from data accessibility and quality issues.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cGeoPostcodes\u2019s mission is simple: to maintain the most extensive, accurate and up-to-date postal\/zip code database in the world.\u201d<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat started as a one-man effort to structure the world\u2019s postal code data soon turned into a vibrant company, headquartered in Belgium. As more enterprises licensed GeoPostcodes\u2019s database, additional countries and features were added.\nToday we can count on an extensive team of data and GIS experts and customer support agents. We have the benefit of a decade of experience – most of which is encoded in the sophisticated data pipelines that combine thousands of data sources into a single well-structured and truly global postal database on a daily basis.\nIn 2019, Fran\u00e7ois Lemmens handed over the reins to Simon Vandemoortele, a data industry veteran. Fran\u00e7ois now focuses exclusively on product development.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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