How do you obtain customer account lists from major UK drinks distributors like Hills Prospect, Nectar, and Enotria & Coe?

Major distributors do not share their full customer base details with brand owners due to GDPR restrictions and commercial confidentiality. However, members have found partial workarounds:

**Official approach:** Contact the distributor's sales team directly in your region (e.g. London) and build relationships to encourage "pull-through" sales activity—this is time-consuming but appears to be the only legitimate route.

**Partial lists:** Some members have obtained incomplete account lists from **Hills Prospect** and **Nectar** (one member reported a Nectar list of 200–300 accounts), though these are fragmented and not geographically comprehensive.

**Information swaps:** Members occasionally trade or share partial lists they've accumulated, though the value and coverage varies.

**Caveats:** Distributors have "clamped down even more" on data sharing in recent years due to GDPR compliance and training. Expecting full customer lists (around 10,000 sites) from a single distributor is unrealistic. If you do obtain lists, you're fortunate—many members report getting nothing from major distributors despite requests.