Our Data Sources

FirmenData processes information exclusively from official, publicly accessible registers and gazettes. The table below lists our primary sources by country, the types of data we obtain from each, and a link to the original source.

Country	Data types	Source
Germany	Register data, annual financial statements, capital market disclosures (ESEF)	Unternehmensregister (German Company Register) unternehmensregister.de
	Register entries and announcements, shareholder lists, company documents	Handelsregister (German Commercial Register) handelsregister.de
	Insolvency notices and proceedings	Insolvenzbekanntmachungen (German insolvency portal) neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de
Switzerland	Commercial register data	Zefix (Central Business Name Index) zefix.ch
	Commercial register publications, shareholder information, bankruptcy and debt-restructuring notices	SHAB (Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce) amtsblattportal.ch
	Open government data (bulk register data)	LINDAS (Swiss federal linked data service) lindas.admin.ch
	Postcodes and localities (official directory of localities) for the Swiss map	Federal Office of Topography swisstopo swisstopo.admin.ch
Austria	Firmenbuch data (CC BY 4.0)	Österreichisches Firmenbuch / BMJ – Justiz justizonline.gv.at

Geodata based on OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap).

Learn more about how we process this data and assure its quality: Data Quality Notice.