Company information should help people discover opportunities, not force them to decipher public registers.
ArkivNord is an independent Nordic company-information service, covering Sweden, Norway and Denmark. We turn public records and annual reports into clearer ways to find, understand and compare businesses.
You can search and segment companies, explore industries, compare companies and build targeted company lists.
We started in Sweden and are now expanding to Norway and Denmark, with the long-term ambition of making company information more accessible across the whole Nordic region.
ArkivNord draws on public registers and annual accounts filed with each market's own authorities: Bolagsverket and Statistics Sweden (SCB) in Sweden, Brønnøysundregistrene in Norway, and Erhvervsstyrelsen (CVR) in Denmark.
We structure, connect and explain this information so it becomes easier to search and compare. Some figures, ratios and classifications are calculated by ArkivNord from the underlying data. The original public records and company filings remain the authoritative sources.
Public data is often presented for registration or statistical purposes, not for someone trying to understand what a company does, find comparable businesses or identify a potential customer, supplier or partner.
We try to make that information more useful through plain-language explanations, flexible filters, comparisons and new ways of grouping companies. Where we create our own classifications or indicators, we want the reasoning, inputs and limitations to be easy to follow. See about our classifications for the details.
Companies are commonly grouped using each market's own industry-classification codes — SNI in Sweden, næringskode in Norway, branchekode (DB07) in Denmark. They're useful, but based on registered activities that are often broad or outdated and don't always describe what a company actually does today. A company can also have several activities that a handful of codes can't really capture.
ArkivNord uses these codes as a starting point, not the final answer. We're working on additional, explainable classifications that better reflect what companies actually do.
Our financial dataset currently covers annual reports filed digitally — iXBRL in Sweden, XBRL in Denmark, and the figures published through Norway's Regnskapsregisteret. It doesn't yet include every company or financial year in every market, particularly where reports were only filed as PDFs or scanned documents.
We're working to expand this. Until then, missing information should be read as data we don't have yet, not evidence that a company had no activity. Wherever possible, ArkivNord shows the relevant reporting period and makes gaps in coverage visible rather than quietly filling them with estimates.
An authority registering a filing doesn't guarantee that every figure in it is correct.
In a 2024 investigation of digital annual reports, journalist Jens Nylander found contradictory duplicate values, incomplete balance sheets, zeroed reports and other deficiencies in Swedish filings. It's a good reminder that machine-readable data still needs validation, and that conflicting information can't always be resolved automatically. He has also documented cases of incorrect or allegedly falsified annual reports.
ArkivNord checks and structures data where it can, but we can't guarantee that every public filing is complete or correct. Important decisions should always be checked against the original annual report and other relevant sources.
The EU's Open Data Directive and Implementing Regulation on high-value datasets name company information, documents and accounts as an important category of public data. These high-value datasets are meant to be reusable free of charge, in machine-readable formats, through APIs and bulk download.
Erhvervsstyrelsen in Denmark already provides CVR data and filed annual reports free of charge — a strong example of the access we'd like to see everywhere. Bolagsverket and SCB in Sweden, and Brønnøysundregistrene in Norway, also provide some basic company information free of charge, but broader access to company information and many documents still comes with API fees and document charges. At scale, those costs make comprehensive historical coverage prohibitively expensive for a small independent service.
We support broader, consistent and genuinely reusable access to public company data. Transparency is strongest when journalists, researchers, businesses and independent developers can inspect and build on the same underlying information.
ArkivNord is not a credit information agency. We don't issue credit scores, approve credit or make lending decisions.
The information on this site is for research, comparison and business discovery. It isn't financial, investment, legal or credit advice, and shouldn't replace an independent assessment or the original source documents.
Found an error, a mismatch with an official source, or something we could explain more clearly? We'd like to know.
For corrections, it helps to include the company name, organisation number, the relevant ArkivNord page and, where possible, a link or reference to the official source.
Reach us at info@arkivnord.com
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