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What is “TP”?

TP (Commercial representative office) is a branch or representative office used primarily in Bulgaria.

Where it's used

TP appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:

BG · Bulgaria

What it tells you about the company

ComparableBroadly equivalent to KLON in Bulgaria.

Equivalent forms around the world

These are the closest structural equivalents to TP in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.

Country	Equivalent suffix
Bulgaria	KLON

Normalizing “TP” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme TP” 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 TP", "country": "bg"}'

Response

{
  "data": {
    "canonical": "acme tp",
    "legal_type": null,
    "tokens": [
      "acme",
      "tp"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "pipeline": [
      "lowercase",
      "legal_suffix"
    ],
    "confidence": 0.99
  }
}

Frequently asked questions

What does TP mean?

TP means "Commercial representative office".

Which countries use TP?

TP is used in Bulgaria.

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