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What is “IB”?

IB (liaison office) is a branch or representative office used primarily in Türkiye.

Where it's used

IB appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:

TR · Türkiye

What it tells you about the company

Normalizing “IB” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — Acme IB” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:

Request
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Acme IB", "country": "tr"}'
Response
{
  "data": {
    "canonical": "acme ib",
    "legal_type": null,
    "tokens": [
      "acme",
      "ib"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "pipeline": [
      "lowercase",
      "legal_suffix"
    ],
    "confidence": 0.99
  }
}

Frequently asked questions

What does IB mean?

IB means "liaison office".

Which countries use IB?

IB is used in Türkiye.

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