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Free range businesses.
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Free Range by the numbers
- independent businesses listed
- 322,746
- non-independent listings screened out
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We build listings from OpenStreetMap, state business and contractor registries, and ownership research across 16 industries. Nothing here is pay-to-play.
Ownership verified through documentation. Includes privately held local or regional businesses that are not franchised, publicly traded, corporate-owned, or PE-backed.
Certified independently-owned by a state agency.
The owner has claimed this business and attested it's independent.
Confirmed independent by the local community.
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