Thailand Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 32,478 Thailand companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Thailand company register data is filed with the Department of Business Development (DBD) under the Ministry of Commerce. Beneficial ownership follows the international 25% ownership-or-voting-rights standard in principle, but Thailand has no central register that actually collects or holds beneficial-ownership information for companies, and the DBD's own portal does not disclose it. Only for listed companies: they must file the 56-1 One Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange of Thailand, naming major shareholders and, where those are not the ultimate owners, the ultimate shareholders behind them. Private companies have no equivalent public requirement.
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Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Thailand, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Thailand
Thailand’s economy has struggled to regain pre-pandemic momentum, and its recent growth trajectory is one of the most consequential structural stories in Southeast Asia. Real GDP grew just 2.5% in 2024 (below the government’s own 2.7% target), and multilateral forecasters have since downgraded 2025 expectations sharply: the World Bank cut its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 1.8% in June 2025, while the IMF’s November 2025 Article IV mission projected 2.1% growth for 2025 and just 1.6% for 2026. This is markedly weaker than regional peers such as Vietnam or the Philippines, and reflects a structural slowdown rather than a one-off shock — a combination of high household debt suppressing consumption, an aging population, weak export competitiveness, and US tariff pressure. Nominal GDP reached roughly $529 billion in 2024, with GDP per capita around $7,387. Inflation has been unusually low and volatile: headline CPI inflation was just 0.4% for full-year 2024, prompting the Bank of Thailand to cut its policy rate to around 1.50% by August 2025. Structurally, the economy rests on three pillars: manufacturing and auto/electronics exports (concentrated in the Eastern Economic Corridor), tourism, and agriculture — with tourism and exports both now facing headwinds. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s actual current growth exposure directly rather than assume pre-pandemic momentum has returned.
Thailand’s export sector reached a record milestone in 2024: total exports topped $300 billion for the first time, up 5.4% year-on-year. Electrical machinery and electronics exports reached roughly $51 billion, automobiles about $22.2 billion, rubber $19.1 billion, and rice exports hit a six-year high of 9.95 million tonnes worth $6.69 billion. China, the US, and ASEAN remain the dominant trade partners. On investment, Thailand has become a prominent beneficiary of “China+1” supply-chain diversification, most visibly in electric vehicles: BYD opened a 32-billion-baht (~$900 million) EV factory in Rayong on July 4, 2024, and at least six other Chinese EV makers are operating or building plants nearby. The BOI reported that automotive and parts investment totaled 102.4 billion baht across 309 projects in 2024. Alongside this investment story sits a genuinely serious structural vulnerability: household debt. Bank of Thailand data show household debt at 89.8% of GDP in Q2 2024, falling gradually to roughly 86.7-86.8% by mid-to-late 2025 — still among the highest ratios in emerging Asia, and a Chulalongkorn University study estimated the ratio at 104% of GDP in Q4 2024 once informal household borrowing is included. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s current household-debt-linked consumer exposure and China+1 investment status directly.
Thailand’s population stood at roughly 66.0 million in December 2024, with a labor force of approximately 40.2-40.6 million. The country is aging unusually fast for its income level: the share of the population aged 60+ rose from 6.8% in 1994 to 20% in 2024, making Thailand a “complete aged society,” with the elderly share projected to reach 31% by 2040. This is widely flagged by Thai and international economists as a core structural drag on long-run growth. Politically, Thailand experienced significant instability in 2024-2025: Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin was dismissed by the Constitutional Court in August 2024; his successor, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, was suspended by the same court in July 2025 and formally removed from office on August 29, 2025 over an ethics case tied to a leaked call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen during border tensions. Anutin Charnvirakul subsequently became prime minister. Separately, a long-running Thailand-Cambodia border dispute escalated significantly in 2025: a May 28, 2025 skirmish killed a Cambodian soldier; fighting intensified on July 24, 2025 (at least 12 killed); and a further escalation from December 8, 2025 killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly a million people before a ceasefire in late December 2025. On tourism, Thailand recorded 35.0 million international arrivals in 2024 but arrivals fell 7.2% to 32.9 million in 2025, driven substantially by a roughly 34% year-on-year drop in Chinese arrivals. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s current political-transition and border-security exposure directly rather than assume conditions have stabilized.
Thailand company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
From the Office of SME Promotion (OSMEP), Thailand, SME White Paper/2024 reporting (covering 2023/2024 data): as of 2024 there were 3,255,957 SME operators in Thailand, representing 99.5% of all business operators (up 0.9% from the prior year). SMEs contributed approximately 35.2% of national GDP in 2023 (with SME GDP for the first three quarters of 2025 at 34.8% of national GDP) and employ roughly 13.4 million people, 68.8% of total employment. A foreign-ownership share figure is deliberately omitted: no clean, genuine economy-wide “% of companies foreign-owned” statistic exists in public DBD/BOI reporting — the only available data points (954 new Foreign Business Licenses granted in 2024, worth $6.76 billion; a DBD land/condo review specific to real-estate nominee structures) are flow or sector-specific figures, not an economy-wide ownership-share statistic. Source: .
Who uses Thailand ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Thailand counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 886 Thailand entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Thailand companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 32,478 company records for Thailand, of which 32,477 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in Thailand, and is that information public?
Thailand company register data is filed with the Department of Business Development (DBD) under the Ministry of Commerce. Beneficial ownership follows the international 25% ownership-or-voting-rights standard in principle, but Thailand has no central register that actually collects or holds beneficial-ownership information for companies, and the DBD's own portal does not disclose it. Only for listed companies: they must file the 56-1 One Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange of Thailand, naming major shareholders and, where those are not the ultimate owners, the ultimate shareholders behind them. Private companies have no equivalent public requirement.
Can I see a Thailand company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 194 shareholder records for Thailand companies, with 45,459 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Can I find the directors of a Thailand company on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 7,985 officer and director records for Thailand companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Can I access financial statements for Thailand companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 886 digitized financial reports for Thailand companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Does Zavia offer an API for Thailand company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Thailand, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in Thailand?
Zavia's Thailand beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.