Area served Europe Founder Lars Save | Revenue 3.935 million SEK (2012) Founded 1989 Number of employees 2,893 | |
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Key people Lars Pettersson (CEO), Ingrid E. Engström (Chairman) Operating income Profit SEK 205.8 million (2012) Total assets SEK 5.912 billion (end 2012) CEO Magnus Silfverberg (1 Sep 2015–) Type of business Publicly traded Aktiebolag Profiles | ||
Bisnode is a company that offers decision support in the form of digital business, marketing and credit information. Founded in 1989, Bisnode is owned to 70 percent by Ratos and to 30 percent by Bonnier. Bisnode is present in 19 European countries and has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The company’s revenue is just under SEK 4 billion.
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History
Bisnode traces its roots back to Sveriges Handelskalender, a trade directory which was founded in 1859 and became the starting pistol for Bonnier’s business-information operations. In 1982, Bonnier-owned Affärsdata started publishing business information digitally. In 1986, Bonnier gave tech entrepreneur Lars Save and Bonnier executive Håkan Ramsin a budget of 15 million SEK to create a business plan for making digital business information services profitable.
In 1989, Bisnode’s predecessor Bonnier Business Services was founded. During the first half of the 1990s, the company carried out a number of acquisitions of different sizes. It specialized in purchasing problem companies and making them flourish. In 1999, Bonnier’s business information was separated from the customer-information operations and named Bonnier Affärsinformation (BAF). In 2005, the private equity company Ratos acquired 70 percent of BAF, who in turn purchased Infodata from Ratos.
In 2006, the group was renamed Bisnode. In 2012, under the leadership of the new CEO Lars Pettersson, a major change was set in motion, with the goal to unite all Bisnode-owned companies in Europe under the Bisnode brand. Completed in 2014, Bisnode's 9 400 square-meter head-office building is situated alongside the E4 in Solna.
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Staff
Bisnode has around 3 000 employees in 19 European countries. About 1 000 (a third) of the group’s people are based in Sweden and make up around half of Bisnode’s revenue. Broken down by sex, approximately 46 percent of Bisnode’s employees are female and 54 per cent are male. The average age is 34.Citation needed
International offices
Bisnode has offices in these 19 countries: