🍂 Summer's winding down, but August's data refresh just kicked off - freshly ready to explore.

Places Highlights

~46K new US restaurant & bar POIs → mostly independent, long-tail locations 🍽️
Expanded Fortune 100 HQ & corporate office coverage → refreshed tagging against the 2026 Fortune 1000 list, ~2.4k new corporate/regional office POIs added globally 🏢
46 new brands across 12 countries 🎉

Longtail US Restaurant & Bar Improvements

This release includes a significant expansion of restaurant, bar, and food service coverage in the US. Across 722% NAICS, we added approximately 46,000 new POIs, including 22,110 Full-Service Restaurants, 11,400 Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars, 5,820 Drinking Places, and 5,059 Limited-Service Restaurants. These are mainly non-branded locations - this targeted sourcing effort significantly improves coverage of independent restaurants and bars that are often underrepresented in POI datasets. 🍽️

2026 Fortune 1000 & Corporate Office Coverage Expansion

This release builds on June's corporate headquarters expansion. We reviewed the newly published 2026 Fortune 1000 list and added standardized HQ (and office, where applicable) locations for 46 newly-listed companies, following the same [Company Name] HQ naming convention established in June. More broadly, corporate and regional office coverage (naics_code = 551114) grew by approximately 2,400 POIs globally this cycle, with the largest gains in the US (~974 POIs). 🏢

Places Growth

This month, SG Places totals 71,453,399 POIs - a net increase of 65,954. The increase reflects continued regular source updates, new brand additions, and targeted coverage work, alongside ongoing accuracy and cleanup projects. Country standouts & top NAICS gains:

United States: +516k POIs 🇺🇸
- naics_code = 812199 (Other Personal Care Services): +35k POIs 💅
- naics_code = 621111 (Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)): +28k POIs 🩺
Turkey: +203k POIs 🇹🇷
- naics_code = 722511 (Full-Service Restaurants): +21k POIs 🍽️
- naics_code = 81211 (Hair, Nail, and Skin Care Services): +10k POIs 💇
Japan: +203k POIs 🇯🇵
- naics_code = 722511 (Full-Service Restaurants): +16k POIs 🍽️
- naics_code = 722410 (Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)): +13k POIs 🍶
Brazil: +131k POIs 🇧🇷
- naics_code = 442110 (Furniture Stores): +6k POIs 🛋️
- naics_code = 621111 (Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)): +5k POIs 🩺
Poland: +100k POIs 🇵🇱
- naics_code = 611110 (Elementary and Secondary Schools): +13k POIs 🏫
- naics_code = 811121 (Automotive Body, Paint, and Interior Repair and Maintenance +9k POIs 🚗

Of course, you can always visit our Places Summary Stats to find more details on our continued growth.

Brands

This month, we added a grand total of 46 brands across 12 countries including:

Mom's Touch (SG_BRAND_1a93e3163f5851ee) - 1,496 POIs 🍗
Olive Young (SG_BRAND_822b0e12fb0aa5cc) - 1,369 POIs 💄
PDS Health (SG_BRAND_5e94499c6a5b542debf0c79c04b743b3) - 1,168 POIs 🦷
Zeon Charging (SG_BRAND_9412253aa154107f) - 238 POIs ⚡

👀 Are we missing a brand or country? 👀 Please let us know here

Brand Openings and Closings

We rely on POI metadata to track store openings and closings, and we are especially interested in understanding open/close dates for branded POIs. It can take more than a month to infer
open/close dates, so we report brand open/close metrics on a one month delay.
In this release, we flagged 602 brands with at least one store closure in July 2026 and 2,064 brands with at least one store opening in July 2026. Learn more about our open/close
columns here.

Drops ⬇️

We are ingesting many sources and due to source changes and processing changes, Placekeys do drop over time. In this release, we dropped 1,464,109 Placekeys (93,400 branded and 1,370,709 non-branded) due to targeted sourcing improvements.